The Concord Coalition mourns the loss of its founding President Peter G. Peterson, who died today at the age of 91. Executive Director Robert L. Bixby issued the following statement: Pete Peterson lived the American Dream. As a depression-era child…
In The Daily Reflector (North Carolina). Anyone in Congress might be able to produce a sensible federal budget and cut the national debt — if they didn’t have to answer to their constituents. That was the hard lesson a group…
WASHINGTON -- The Concord Coalition expressed frustration today over Washington’s need for repeated short-term stop-gap funding measures and the inclusion of policies in them that will further increase the deficit. “It's good that the impasse leading to a partial government…
WASHINGTON -- With the House and Senate now considering separate plans to overhaul the tax code, The Concord Coalition urges lawmakers to reconsider their current approaches, notably the idea of deficit-financed tax cuts. “The two plans differ on some important…
