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Washington officials are sending conflicting signals over talks between the White House and congressional leaders to avoid the fiscal cliff while also moving the country forward on long-term deficit-reduction.President Obama talked by phone with House Speaker John Boehner and Senate…

The long-standing impasse on tax policy has basically boiled down to this: Democrats want more revenue, raised entirely from households with incomes over $250,000. Republicans don’t want any new revenue, and especially not from higher tax rates on the rich.…

Prospects for constructive budget talks between President Obama and congressional leaders seem to have brightened after an initial meeting at the White House late last week. The signals that came out of that meeting were “very good,” according to Concord…

The nation this week mourned former U.S. Senator Warren B. Rudman, a tireless champion of responsible federal budget policies and a founding co-chairman of The Concord Coalition.President Obama called Rudman, who died Monday night at age 82, “one of our…

WASHINGTON -- Diane Lim, chief economist of The Concord Coalition, has become president of the National Tax Association (NTA), the leading organization of tax professionals dedicated to advancing the understanding of the theory and practice of public finance. (more…)

Washington -- The Concord Coalition deeply regrets the passing of Warren B. Rudman, a founding co-chairman of the organization and a tireless champion of responsible federal budget policies and the interests of future generations of Americans. “Warren Rudman was an…

Signals from the first post-election budget meeting between the President and congressional leaders, which took place at the White House on Friday, were very good. Congressional leaders of both parties appeared together after the meeting. There were no lines in…

Advocates of fiscal reform are reiterating their calls for bipartisan cooperation and compromise in the wake of national elections that left Democrats in control of the White House and the Senate, and Republicans in control of the House.“The status-quo election…