The Fiscal Solutions Tour
During the fall of 2010, the Peter G. Peterson Foundation and the Concord Coalition are conducting a national “Fiscal Solutions Tour,” a follow-up to the successful fall 2008 “Fiscal Wake-Up Tour.”
In cities across the nation, top policy experts are discussing options for defense and domestic spending cuts, Social Security and Medicare reforms, improvements in the health care system, better and fairer tax policies, and tougher budget controls in Congress.
Speaking on the Fiscal Solutions Tour are Robert L. Bixby, executive director of The Concord Coalition; David M. Walker, CEO of the Comeback America Initiative and former U.S. Comptroller General; Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of The American Action Forum and former director of the Congressional Budget Office; Bill Novelli, professor at Georgetown University, and former CEO of AARP; and Isabel Sawhill, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and former associate director of the Office of Management and Budget.
The tour aims to foster informed public dialogue about policy solutions to the nation’s daunting fiscal and economic challenges. Rather than advancing a specific set of solutions, the tour will provide the public with a balanced perspective on the many different options. Many of these options are currently being considered by President Obama’s bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform as it prepares its recommendations for Congress and the Administration, which are due on December 1.
Schedule
San Francisco (Thursday, September 23)
5:30 pm reception followed by 6:00 pm forum
Commonwealth Club
595 Market Street, 2nd floor
Commonwealth Club Information on the event:
http://tickets.commonwealthclub.org/auto_choose_ga.asp?area=1
San Jose (Friday, September 24)
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
The San Jose McEnery Convention Center
408 Almaden Blvd.
2nd Floor, “Meeting Room J3”
The event is free and open to the public. Box lunches will be provided.
Please RSVP to chovde@concordcoalition.org
Des Moines (Thursday, September 30)
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Drake University
Sheslow Auditorium
2507 University Avenue
Des Moines
RSVP to: www.concordcoalition.org/rsvp
For more information on this event, contact Sara Imhof at
simhof@concordcoalition.org
Portsmouth and Durham, New Hampshire (Thursday, October 7)
7:30 am
Fiscal Solutions Tour Breakfast
Granite State College at Pease Tradeport
51 International Drive
Portsmouth, NH 03801
A hot breakfast will be served. Admission is $10 and open to the public.
Please RSVP to Jeff Thiebert at jthiebert@concordcoalition.org and indicate you would
like to attend our breakfast session.
Sponsored by the New Hampshire Forum on the Future
10:00 am
Fiscal Solutions Tour at UNH
University of New Hampshire
Whittemore School of Business
Huddleston Hall
Durham, NH 03824
This event is open to the public. Seating will be extremely limited; please RSVP to Jeff Thiebert at jthiebert@concordcoalition.org if you are interested in attending. In your RSVP, please indicate you would like to attend the UNH event.
12:00 pm
Fiscal Solutions Tour with the Greater Portsmouth Rotary Club
Redhook Ale Brewery
35 Corporate Drive
Portsmouth, NH 03801
Philadelphia (Friday, October 22)
2:00pm - 4:00pm
University of Pennsylvania
Annenberg School of Communication
3620 Walnut Street
Room 110
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Click here to RSVP
Chicago (Friday, November 12)
7:30am-9:30am
Union League Club of Chicago
65 West Jackson Boulevard
Chicago, IL 60604
Admission is $25 and includes breakfast with the program
Noon-1:30pm
University of Chicago
The Harris School of Public Policy
1155 E. 60th Street (corner of E. 60th and Woodlawn)
Room 140C
Chicago, IL 60637
This event is free. Brown bag lunch will be provided.
Click here to RSVP. For more information, please contact Corey Davison at cdconcord@aol.com.