Read "A Fiscal Wake-Up Call" To See Why This Tour Is Going Around The Country

Upcoming Events

October 2: Cleveland, OH

4:00 PM; Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University (Register Online)

October 14: Philadelphia, PA

6:00 PM; Houston Hall, Room G26 (Hall of Flags) at the University of Pennsylvania

Quotes About The Tour

"This Fiscal Wake-Up Tour I think has been one that has been waking up members of Congress. And you see that in a bipartisan way."
-OMB Director Jim Nussle

“The Fiscal Wake Up Tour is providing a tremendous public service, and is getting a very strong response from around the country”
-Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND), Chairman of the Budget Committee

Video of The Tour

About The Tour

The Concord Coalition believes that only with an engaged, informed and demanding public can the nation's fiscal challenges be met. The Fiscal Wake-Up Tour's mission is to cut through the usual partisan rhetoric and stimulate a more realistic public dialogue on what we want our nation's future to look like, along with the required trade-offs. We believe that elected leaders in Washington know there is a problem, but they are unlikely to act unless forced to by their constituents. The Tour began as a series of public forums around the country and now, in addition to those forums, we are organzing in-depth local committees to futher focus attention on our nation's daunting long-term fiscal challenges.