#Fiscal Responsibility

On June 4, roughly 25 young professionals gathered together (remotely), stared at computer screens and watched an animated video over Zoom. Since it happened to be a beautiful evening in late spring in New Hampshire, they either really liked cartoons…

The economic devastation imposed by the coronavirus has been swift, steep, and wholly unlike any prior recession. In March, the government purposely induced a nationwide economic coma to curb the spread of the deadly coronavirus and deployed bazookas of money…

One silent victim of the coronavirus pandemic is the 2020 congressional legislative agenda. As the virus took hold in the United States, lawmakers in the House and Senate rightly jettisoned their to-do lists to focus exclusively on emergency relief legislation.…

The Concord Coalition and the Global Aging Institute (GAI) have joined forces to produce a quarterly issue brief series called The Shape of Things to Come that explores the fiscal, economic, social, and geopolitical implications of the aging of America.…

After four weeks of record-shattering initial unemployment insurance claims, the most recent jobs report revealed what most Americans already knew: the current U.S. employment situation is dire. Total nonfarm employment fell by 20.5 million in April, wiping out a decade…

Smith, with the Concord Coalition, and others who lament Congress didn’t take advantage of the pre-pandemic years of growth to eliminate deficit spending and lower the national debt said not doing so after the pandemic has passed threatens to increase inflation and crowd out private borrowing.

While public health officials grapple with containing the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in the United States, federal lawmakers are discussing emergency measures to help mitigate the associated economic fallout. A federal response is wholly appropriate, but Congress and the…

The Concord Coalition said today that new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projections showing federal deficits and debt steadily rising over the next 10 years and leaping to historic highs over the longer term are an alarming signal that action…