Concord Coalition Leaders Call for a Realistic Deficit Reduction Plan

WASHINGTON -- In a full-page statement in this Sunday's New York Times (December 11, 2005), ...

Concord Coalition Names Ed Lorenzen Aa Policy Director

WASHINGTON -- The Concord Coalition announced today that Ed Lorenzen has been hired to become the organization's Policy Director. ...

Concord Coalition Says Congress Should Use Spending and Tax Cut "Reconciliation" Package to Reduce the Deficit

WASHINGTON -- With critical decisions now pending on the fiscal year 2006 spending and tax cut “reconciliation” bills, The ...

Concord Coalition Calls for "Pork" Rescission and Tax Cut Freeze in Response to Katrina

WASHINGTON -- With President Bush promising to respond to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina by launching “one of ...

CBO August Update: A little good news and a lot of red ink

Concord Coalition Warns that 10-Year Deficit Could Reach $5.7 Trillion

WASHINGTON -- With today's budget update by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) showing the deficit shrinking from $412 ...

Concord Coalition Warns Against Fiscal Euphoria

WASHINGTON -- With today's release of the Bush Administration's Mid-Session Review projecting a decline in the federal budget ...

Raising the Social Security Taxable Earnings Cap: Real Reform or Another Placebo?

   One of the most popular ideas for helping to solve Social Security's long-term financing problem is to make ...

CSIS, Concord Coalition to Convene Bipartisan Social Security Reform Conference

social security reform: Is There a Bipartisan Solution? social security reform: Is There a Bipartisan Solution? Thursday, June 30, 2005 8:00 ...

Watchdog Groups Call for Offsetting the Costs of Tax and Entitlement Measures to Halt Expansion of Deficits and Debt

JOINT STATEMENT ON THE NEED FOR JOINT STATEMENT ON THE NEED FOR PAY-AS-YOU-GO DISCIPLINE The five organizations joining in this statement ...

Personal Retirement Accounts: Should They be Voluntary or Mandatory?

   Participation in Social Security is mandatory.  If a worker is employed in a job that is "covered" by the ...

Automatic Cost Growth Drives the Problem

   The challenge ahead for Social Security is primarily a matter of rising costs.  With an outlay total of more ...