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The Federal Budget Lacks Fiscal Sanity
Facing The Future

The Federal Budget Lacks Fiscal Sanity

Mar 27, 2025
Special Guest: James Capretta, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
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State Budgets and Examining ‘Replacement Rates’ for Social Security

Aug 19, 2022
Special Guest: Steve Robinson, Phil Smith, Av Harris, Phil Sletten
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In our first segment Concord’s communications director Av Harris and I  looked in detail at the New Hampshire state budget with Phil Sletten, research director for the New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute. Later, national field director Phil Smith - who worked…
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CBO Long Term Budget Outlook: Rising Deficits, Debt, and Economic Challenges

Aug 3, 2022
Special Guest: Dr. Philip Swagel. Steve Robinson, Tori Gorman
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This week on Facing the Future, we welcomed back Dr. Phillip Swagel, director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to give us more insight and analysis following the CBO’s release of its annual long-term budget outlook last week. The Concord Coalition’s chief economist Steve…
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Making the ‘Case’ in Congress for Fiscal Discipline

Jul 20, 2022
Special Guest: Ed Case, Phil Smith, Tori Gorman
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This week on Facing the Future, we spoke with Representative Ed Case of Hawaii, a leader of the House Blue Dog Coalition, about his sometimes lonely job of convincing his colleagues in both parties to pay for the programs they…
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Social Security and Medicare Creep Towards Insolvency

Jun 15, 2022
Special Guest: Av Harris, Tori Gorman, Steve Robinson
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This week on Facing the Future, we looked at challenges ahead for Social Security and Medicare. According to the latest reports from the Social Security and Medicare trustees, we are creeping towards insolvency for both programs by the next decade.…
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Breaking Down the CBO 10-year Baseline

Jun 4, 2022
Special Guest: Tori Gorman, Steve Robison, Phil Smith, Av Harris
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This week on Facing the Future, we relied on a panel of Concord Coalition staff to help us break down the latest 10-year Budget and Economic Outlook released by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. I gave my own interpretation of…
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Facing the Future in America’s Heartland

Mar 23, 2022
Special Guest: Phil Smith, Dr. Josh Gordon, Ben Ritz
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This week, Facing the Future took to the road to Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana where The Concord Coalition’s national field director Phil Smith helped run our Principles and Priorities federal budget exercise with students and local community members,…
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National Debt Outlook After Two Years of COVID

Mar 17, 2022
Special Guest: Brian Riedl, Wendy Edelberg
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This week on Facing the Future, we have a special edition of the program featuring excerpts from a recent panel discussion at the Warren B. Rudman Center for Justice, Leadership, and Public Service at the University of New Hampshire’s Franklin…
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The Vital Role of Immigration

Dec 22, 2021
Special Guest: Richard Jackson
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This week on Facing the Future, Concord Coalition Chief Economist Steve Robinson and I spoke with Richard Jackson, President and Founder of the Global Aging Institute, about the new issue brief he authored, The Vital Role of Immigration in an Aging…
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Can The Democrats Message “Yes”?

Nov 18, 2021
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This week on Facing the Future, we focused on the political arguments surrounding President Biden’s Build Back Better Act (BBBA) and specifically the concerns raised by West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin – a fiscally conservative Democrat – over the cost…
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A Reality Check on Reconciliation

Oct 21, 2021
Special Guest: Ben Ritz
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This week on Facing the Future, we heard from Ben Ritz, Director of the Center for Funding America’s Future at the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) and the author of a new paper, “Reconciling with Reality: The Top Priorities for Building Back Better.” …
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Don’t Forget the Budget’s Pre-existing Condition

Oct 14, 2021
Special Guest: Tori Gorman, Riedl, Steve Robinson
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This week on Facing the Future we took a step back from the day-to-day budget battles in Washington to consider the overall fiscal outlook. Our guest was Brian Riedl, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, who recently published a…
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