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Health care spending will continue its upward climb, taking a larger and larger share of the nation’s economic activity over the next decade, according to new annual projections from the federal government's chief health care actuaries. The health care sector…

As federal agencies and millions of Americans struggle to recover from Washington’s partial shutdown over this year’s budget, we are now facing a potential crisis over the federal debt limit that could have an even greater negative impact. The debt…

The Taxpayer Advocate Service (TAS) sends an annual report to Congress that flags problems with the federal government’s tax collection efforts. The latest such report from the agency makes for particularly depressing reading. On top of the usual problems discussed…

Oriental, N.C. -- Phil Smith, the southern regional director for The Concord Coalition, and Marjorie Dufek, the organization’s North Carolina coordinator, have released the following statement about the recent death of U.S. Rep. Walter Jones: North Carolina’s loss is truly…

As if filing federal tax returns weren’t already confusing enough, some lawmakers are considering retroactive changes in the tax code that would apply to 2018. This means some taxpayers may need to delay preparing and submitting their returns -- and…

WASHINGTON -- The Concord Coalition expressed deep concern today over new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projections that show federal deficits and debt rising rapidly despite healthy growth in the economy and an historically low unemployment rate. Over 10 years, the…

Even as lawmakers and President Trump continued to argue over spending plans for the current fiscal year, the federal deficit grew in the first quarter of the year by $317 billion, according to estimates from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).…

Up until a few days ago it seemed that President Trump was looking to exit the partial government shutdown by redirecting funds for a Mexican border wall through an emergency declaration. As he approached this exit, however, he found that…