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Paul Volcker, 1927-2019 Paul Volcker, one of The Concord Coalition Board of Directors longest-tenured members, and one of the Coalition’s earliest and most outspoken supporters, died on December 8, 2019. He was 92. Bob Bixby, The Concord Coalition’s executive director,…

In football terms, it was fourth and long… very long. The chances of passing appropriation bills to fund government agencies for the current fiscal year, which began on October 1st, were slim. So this week Congress did what they have…

On November 15, The Concord Coalition and The Warren B. Rudman Center for Justice, Leadership and Public Service hosted a panel discussion on legal immigration reform aimed at encouraging economic growth, titled “Immigration: Reform for the Future.” The panel of…

WASHINGTON - The Concord Coalition said today that a new budget process reform bill co-sponsored by Senate Budget Committee Chair Mike Enzi (R-WY) and Budget Committee member Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) proposes reforms that would address some of the most…

The Concord Coalition welcomes the Time to Rescue United States Trusts Act (Trust Act), co-sponsored by Mitt Romney (R-UT), Joe Manchin (D-WV), Todd Young (R-IN), Doug Jones (D-AL), and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) in the Senate and Representatives Mike Gallagher (R-WI), Ed…

The federal budget deficit for Fiscal Year 2019 was $984 billion (4.7 percent of GDP), according to a preliminary estimate issued by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on Monday. This would be an increase of $205 billion over the 2018…

Last week The Concord Coalition kicked off our new project: Toward a Fiscally Responsible Economic Growth Agenda. At the kick-off event we featured a selection of authors of the project’s initial five policy papers. All of the authors discussed…

The Concord Coalition will present a policy forum on Thursday, October 3 at the kick-off of its project "Toward a Fiscally Responsible Economic Growth Agenda." The forum will feature the public release of five policy papers written as part of the new project, bringing together thought leaders…