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The Medicare actuaries have just updated their projections for National Health Expenditures (NHE) and the overall picture they illustrate is a welcome one, but likely reflects temporary factors and cannot serve as an excuse for politicans to rest on their…

Pointing to warnings from congressional budget experts and the trustees who oversee Medicare and Social Security, The Concord Coalition’s Midwest regional director recently emphasized the importance of simultaneously dealing with immediate economic problems while laying the groundwork for broad fiscal…

Last week both Doug Elmendorf, director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), and Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, urged Congress to put the country on a more responsible long-term fiscal path without jeopardizing the current economic recovery. Their…

A tax code with tens of thousands of pages. The huge defense budget. The complexities of Medicare and Social Security, plus a myriad of government programs for which Congress approves money on an annual basis . . . . All…

The Congressional Budget Office today released long-term projections that the Concord Coalition said showed how disconnected today’s political debates are from the key issues that must be dealt with to put the federal budget on a more sustainable path over…

Washington -- The Concord Coalition said today that new long-term projections from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) highlight the need for broad fiscal reforms -- and show how disconnected today’s political debates are from the key issues involved in putting the…

House Republican leaders are suggesting the use of “fast-track” legislative procedures to revamp and simplify the federal tax code next year. In remarks last week, however, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp tied the proposed overhaul to an…

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said this week that the nation does not have to “choose between national security and our fiscal security,” but he urged Congress to avoid what he called “disastrous” cuts scheduled to start in January in both…