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Plans are in the works for a House vote this month on a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution -- a project that is hard to take seriously after Congress in recent months has approved large, deficit-financed tax cuts and…

WASHINGTON -- President Trump today signed the $1.3 trillion spending bill to fund government programs for the remaining six months of Fiscal 2018. The following statement is from Robert L. Bixby, executive director of The Concord Coalition: Congress and President Trump…

A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association looks across the health care systems of the 10 highest-income countries around the globe to examine what makes our system uniquely inefficient -- spending almost twice as much per…

It probably isn’t a good sign when a political project is initially mistaken for a joke. But President Trump and House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady last week found themselves having to insist that they were serious about wanting…

The Trump administration unveiled its long-awaited infrastructure plan with great fanfare last month. While the nation has many infrastructure needs, however, the plan seems to be generating little interest in Washington. It’s not hard to see why. While the administration…

How should Washington start getting its fiscal house in order? At “Budget on Tap,” members of the Concord Young Professionals Network (CYPN) in New Hampshire wrestled with that question while participating in a budget exercise called “Debt Busters.” Approximately 40…

Ohio Gov. John R. Kasich and former U.S. Rep. Tim Penny warned Friday that irresponsible fiscal policies are jeopardizing the nation’s future, but the two former congressional colleagues also pointed towards a number of possible solutions. (more…)

WASHINGTON -- The Concord Coalition will present a panel discussion Friday, Feb. 23, at the National Press Club in Washington entitled “Fiscal Freefall: When Will It Stop?” The noon program will feature Ohio Gov. John R. Kasich, a Republican who served…