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Washington, DC – The Concord Coalition and the Global Aging Institute (GAI) today jointly released a new issue brief entitled The Vital Role of Immigration in an Aging America. The paper, which is part of a quarterly issue brief series…

In a last minute dash to avoid a funding lapse that could shutter federal offices, on Thursday night Congress sent to President Biden a continuing resolution (CR) that would temporarily fund the government at FY 2021 levels for 11…

"The Build Back Better Act (BBBA), now on its way to the Senate, is often described by proponents as a fully paid for transformational investment in our nation’s future. Its success, however, in either being fully paid for or transformational…

Washington, DC – The Concord Coalition today is calling on Congress to close the nearly $160 billion federal budget hole that would be created over the next 10 years if President Biden’s Build Back Better Act (BBBA) passes in…

Democrats in Washington are working furiously to put the finishing touches on the President’s Build Back Better (BBB) social safety net spending bill. Trying to shoehorn their legislative priorities into the fiscal parameters of the measure while nodding to…

The Biden Administration released this week a revised Build Back Better framework (BBBF) that reflects the president’s negotiations with Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Krysten Sinema (D-AZ), and Bernie Sanders (D-VT). Although significantly scaled back from the initial $3.5 trillion target,…

"Congressional Democrats face many hard choices as they seek to fit an ambitious agenda of social spending on child care, college education and health care into a reconciliation bill with a maximum cost of roughly $2 trillion over 10 years.…

This week the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) published its final monthly budget review for FY 2021. While the Treasury Department will publish the official numbers in its next Monthly Report, CBO’s end-of-year report provides an accurate preview of…