#Federal Budget

Although recession-related pressures on state budgets may be easing, governors and other state officials around the country are worried about the potential impact of Washington’s fiscal difficulties. State finances are “modestly recovering in step with the slowly improving national economy,”…

The 113th Congress convened last week amid widespread concern that the fiscal cliff legislation – signed Wednesday by President Obama – set the stage for a series of “mini-cliffs” and intense political struggles over federal budget issues early this year.The…

When faced with the numbers, most Americans are willing to take on the shared sacrifice necessary to eventually stabilize the federal debt, according to Paul Hansen, western states regional director for The Concord Coalition. (more…)

After months of debate and negotiation, Congress on Tuesday approved legislation to avoid the most immediate consequences of the “fiscal cliff” but that falls far short of the more comprehensive reforms that many advocates of fiscal responsibility had hoped to…

For the third week in a row, I will be discussing the nation’s fiscal challenges on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal

The pace of budget negotiations between President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner has picked up in recent days, with the two meeting again on Monday at the White House.With the latest exchange of offers, Obama and Boehner seem to…

The stakes in Washington’s current budget battles are particularly high for college students and other young Americans, according to a Concord Coalition chapter on the Madison campus of the University of Wisconsin. (more…)

In September 1992, three concerned public figures launched The Concord Coalition in front of a national debt clock in New York City. Sen. Warren Rudman, R-N.H., former Sen. Paul Tsongas, D-Mass., and former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Peter G. Peterson…