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About a hundred people in Colorado’s 1st Congressional District tried their hands Saturday at federal deficit reduction through The Concord Coalition’s


House Democrats released a proposed 10-year budget Monday that would protect non-defense spending from steep cuts but cause federal deficits to rise for several years in the coming decade.Relative to the Congressional Budget Office baseline, it would reduce deficits by…


Today the House Budget Committee is considering Chairman Paul Ryan’s proposed budget for Fiscal 2015 -- a document that lays out Republican priorities but does not represent a realistic blueprint for progress towards a fiscal sustainability plan.Concord Coalition Executive Director…


Officials in Maryland and Massachusetts are pursuing ambitious reforms to limit health spending to their states’ economic growth rates. These reforms could provide useful lessons for the rest of the country.In Maryland, state hospitals and insurers have agreed to enter…


The President signed a measure yesterday that postpones sharp cuts in Medicare payments to health care providers for another year. This represented an unfortunate end, for now, to the bipartisan effort to find a permanent replacement for Medicare’s Sustainable Growth…


WASHINGTON -- The Concord Coalition today welcomed the budget proposal from House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan but expressed concern that it does not represent a realistic blueprint for making progress on a fiscal sustainability plan. (more…)


In a congressional hearing last week, several budget experts urged lawmakers to address the unsustainable growth in the federal debt through balanced deficit-reduction measures.The experts told the House Financial Services Committee that rising medical costs and the needs of an…


The growth in health care spending has slowed in recent years but could speed up again as the economy strengthens and the population ages. Even with slower growth rates, however, federal and state governments need to pursue reforms and innovations…


Although elected officials must make politically difficult choices to put the government’s finances on a sustainable path, some reforms in the congressional budget process could help.And as several budget experts made clear in a recent panel discussion on Capitol Hill,…


Last Thursday, Congressman Reid Ribble invited The Concord Coalition to host a panel of experts on Capitol Hill to talk with congressional staffers gearing up for the annual budget process. (more…)


The nation’s current fiscal path threatens to leave future generations of Americans with less opportunity and reduced prosperity, according to a staff memorandum in advance of a timely House hearing today on the consequences of a large and rising federal…


Personal savings are an essential part of good retirement planning, particularly as the needs of an aging U.S. population put increasing strain on the federal budget. Workers can expect to need substantial amounts of money to help pay their living…

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