#Grassroots

In the week since President Obama signed the debt limit deal into law, stock prices have become highly volatile, Standard & Poor’s dropped its U.S. credit rating a notch below AAA, and political maneuvering began over the special congressional committee…

The Comeback America Initiative has released a report with illustrative options to put the country on a sustainable fiscal path under two different scenarios. The report, "Restoring Fiscal Sanity,” includes options on domestic and defense spending, entitlement reform and tax…

By Ryan SchoenikeThe debate over our nation’s finances has now reached what seems to be common place in Washington. As our country sits on the verge of default, both parties have retreated to their partisan foxholes, only coming out to throw…

Hundreds of people gathered in several cities around the country last week to wrestle with the difficult decisions that are needed for the federal government to rein in future deficits while still meeting its fundamental responsibilities.The events were hosted by…

Because their futures are at stake, young Americans need to be engaged in the national dialogue about the rapidly growing federal debt and large unfunded liabilities the U.S. government has for programs like Social Security and Medicare.T.J Leach and Alex…

Because sweeping government reforms will be politically difficult, the active involvement of the American public is essential. We need a national dialogue about the country’s huge fiscal challenges, the possible options, and the trade-offs among those options.In a guest column…

As Washington wrapped up this year’s spending plans last week, The Concord Coalition’s Fiscal Solutions Tour encouraged Iowa residents to focus on larger challenges facing the country: an aging population, rising health costs, and structural problems in the federal budget.Tour…

Six senators and the co-chairs of President Obama’s fiscal commission have put a spotlight on the country's big fiscal challenges – a welcome contrast to the tussles in Congress over domestic spending programs that make up only a slice of…