WASHINGTON -- While lawmakers are working on appropriations bills to fund the government next year, they seem to have lost interest in trying to meet the country’s long-term fiscal challenges. But the newly updated Federal Budget Challenge (www.federalbudgetchallenge.org) gives citizens…
While many in Washington have put fiscal sustainability on the back burner, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) offers an important reminder of the need for prompt fiscal reforms.“Significant action to change the long-term fiscal path must be taken soon to…
The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) launched its Personal Savings Initiative at a press conference Wednesday featuring former Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) and Jim Lockhart, former deputy commissioner of the Social Security Administration.Lockhart and Conrad will chair an…
Although the federal deficit has dropped significantly since the four-year string of trillion-dollar-plus shortfalls that began in 2009, under current law the deficits will start rising again soon.Sara Imhof, Midwest field director for The Concord Coalition, and Loren Adler, research…
