A Panel Discussion on January 10, 2024, hosted by the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy at Dartmouth University

When: Wednesday, January 10, 2024, 5:00 to 6:00 pm

Where: Panel discussion in Room 003 at the Rockefeller Center AND virtually (livestream link here)

In its most recent annual report on the nation’s fiscal health, the Government Accountability Office warned: “The federal government faces an unsustainable long-term fiscal future.”  Join The Concord Coalition and the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget for a fiscal policy discussion, including challenges facing the next administration, such as the rising national debt, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, taxes, general government spending, and more.

The event will feature Concord Coalition Executive Director Bob Bixby and Mike Murphy, Senior Vice president and Chief of Staff at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

More event details can be found on the Dartmouth website here.

Panelists:

Bob Bixby

Robert L. Bixby is executive director of The Concord Coalition, a nonpartisan organization that encourages fiscal responsibility in Washington and helps educate the public about the federal budget and the need to protect our children and future generations from excessive government debt. Bixby frequently speaks around the country on the nation’s fiscal challenges and possible bipartisan solutions, including greater government efficiency, tax reform and improvements in the entitlement program. He has testified at congressional hearings and been interviewed by news organizations around the country. Bixby has appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN and Fox News.

 

 

Mike Murphy

Mike Murphy is Senior Vice President and Chief of Staff for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, where he manages policy research and analysis on a variety of topics related to fiscal policy and the federal budget, as well as coordinates a wide array of projects related to advancing the Committee’s policy related initiatives. He is also the Director of FixUS, a special initiative of the Committee that through a number of efforts and partnerships seeks to better understand the root causes of our nation’s growing divisions and deteriorating political system, to work with others to bring attention to these issues and the need to fix them, and to build support for necessary changes.

 

Moderators:

Marjorie Rose

Marjorie Rose is a Sr. Lecturer in the Dept. of Economics at Dartmouth. She earned her B.A. from Penn State Univ. and her PhD from UCLA. Before joining the Dartmouth Economics faculty, she worked as a macroeconomist at the Council of Economic Advisors under President Ronald Reagan. As a senior economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), she worked on macroeconomic policy adjustment and lending programs in a dozen countries across Africa and  Asia and provided technical assistance in the areas of monetary policy design and banking supervision. Most recently, she co-taught a special immersion course on Macroeconomic Policy and Reform in Latin America, which involved an in-depth study of Chile and Argentina on campus followed by a 2-week trip to the two countries to conduct team research projects. Rose has moderated numerous panel discussions and special talks across campus on a range of areas such as personal finance, fiscal responsibility, and monetary policy.