Concord Coalition Warns that Focus on Trust Fund Solvency Ignores the Key Long-Term Issues

WASHINGTON -- With today's release of the 2005 Social Security and Medicare Trustees Reports, The Concord Coalition stressed ...

A "One Percent" Tax Increase Will Not Fix Social Security's Problems

   The Social Security payroll tax, better known to workers as FICA (or SECA for the self employed), is ...

Concord Coalition says that Deficit Outlook Justifies Return to "Pay-As-You-Go" Rule for Tax Cuts and Spending

WASHINGTON -- As the House and Senate debate their respective versions of the Fiscal Year 2006 budget ...

Social Security's Trust Funds Mask the Problem

Some commentators have suggested that the financial problems confronting Social Security are overblown because the large balance building ...

Reform Should Not Wait For a Crisis

It is often said that our political system only responds to a crisis.  If that is true, we ...

The Presidents FY 2006 Budget: As significant for what it omits as for what it includes

Concord Coalition Warns That President's Budget Omits The Cost Of Major Initiatives

WASHINGTON -- The Concord Coalition said today that President Bush's fiscal year 2006 budget takes an appropriately hard ...

New CBO Report Shows the Aging of the Budget

Concord Coalition's Executive Director To Testify on Social Security Reform

WASHINGTON -- Robert Bixby, Executive Director of The Concord Coalition, will testify Thursday before the Senate Special ...

Concord Coalition Warns That New CBO Projections Show A Worsening Budget Outlook

WASHINGTON -- The Concord Coalition warned today that new projections by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) show a ...

Concord Coalition Leaders Warn Against “Free Lunch” And “Do Nothing” Social Security Plans

WASHINGTON -- In a full-page statement in this Sunday's New York Times (January 9, 2005), bipartisan leaders of ...

Fiscal Policy in Campaign 2004

I. Introduction I. Introduction Four years ago the budget was on its way to a $236 billion surplus and the ...