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Many politicians, including the president-elect, have focused their efforts to improve federal finances on the elimination of waste, fraud and abuse. While such reforms would be woefully insufficient to address the nation’s broader fiscal challenges, a 2015 report uncovered last…


How the incoming Trump administration handles health care policy is perhaps the most consequential question hanging over the nation’s budgetary outlook. That’s why policy analysts are scrambling to read the tea leaves on health care amid conflicting signals. Republicans seem…


As Donald Trump prepares to become the nation’s 45th president, he must quickly turn his attention to converting campaign promises, which lacked detail, into his first budget. While presidential budgets are advisory to Congress, Republican control of both the House…


Lawmakers will face a significant fiscal workload and a limited amount of time when they return to Washington next week following a lengthy recess. (more…)


Voters are going to the polls today without sufficient information from the presidential candidates about how they would deal with the nation’s growing debt and unsustainable fiscal path. Concord Coalition Executive Director Robert L. Bixby writes in a recent Ripon…


Several notable changes to the funding and benefit structure of Social Security will be coming next year, the Social Security Administration (SSA) announced last week. The nearly 25 percent of Americans who claim Social Security benefits will see a cost-of-living…


Economists Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Jared Bernstein said last week that the next president and Congress must address both income inequality and fiscal responsibility. They spoke at a program at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College. The…


The third and final presidential debate last week failed to provide voters with credible and specific proposals for putting the federal debt on a sustainable path. “Donald Trump’s suggestion that economic growth alone can solve the problem is not realistic…


Three congressional candidates in New Hampshire expressed concerns about the federal budget and discussed possible solutions in live-audience television interviews at a “Fiscal Fridays Festival” in Concord last week. The event was co-sponsored by NH1, The Concord Coalition and the…


In advance of tomorrow’s presidential debate at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), dozens of students there participated in an interactive federal budget exercise presented last week by The Concord Coalition.It was the last in a series of programs…


The federal deficit jumped to $587 billion in Fiscal 2016, up from $439 billion the previous year, the Treasury Department reported Friday. As a percentage of GDP, the deficit increased to 3.2 percent, up from 2.5 percent in Fiscal 2015.…


In tomorrow night’s presidential debate, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump should have a good opportunity to address some of the critical fiscal choices that await the next president and Congress. Two earlier presidential debates failed to provide voters with much…

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