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2016 Election why fiscal issues are important this election
The 2016 election season is an important opportunity for a conversation between voters and candidates about the nation’s fiscal future. Voters understand that our nation’s fiscal health is closely tied to its economic strength. They are calling on candidates from both parties to put forward their plans to stabilize our long-term debt and build a solid fiscal foundation to support economic growth and opportunity. The Peterson Foundation is pleased to provide a range of nonpartisan resources, data, and analysis to help foster this conversation.
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The fiscal top ten
Why should fiscal and economic issues be at the forefront of the 2016 election conversation? Check out the fiscal top ten to better understand our unsustainable long-term debt, and see why candidates and voters should be talking about this challenge throughout the election.
Why Long-Term Debt Matters
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Despite recent improvements in near-term deficits, America’s long-term fiscal challenges remain. Take a look at the underlying trends behind our unsustainable fiscal path.
Memos to the President & Congress
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Solutions do exist
The Peterson Foundation's Solutions Initiative brings together policy organizations from across the political spectrum to develop long-term fiscal plans. The result? Each group stabilized America’s long-term debt successfully. They also provided specific policy recommendations to the next President and Congress.
Voters agree
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More than 9 in 10 voters agree that a stable fiscal foundation will help the economy grow, and wide majorities from both parties believe putting our long-term debt on a sustainable path will enhance mobility, opportunity, and business and consumer confidence.
Opportunity for America
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Hear from fiscal and economic experts including Larry Summers, Alice Rivlin, Glenn Hubbard and Raj Chetty about the opportunity policymakers have to secure America's future.
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Selected charts on the long-term fiscal challenges of the United States.
A Strong Fiscal Foundation
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How does a strong fiscal foundation help support a growing, thriving economy? This short animation explains the connection with easy-to-understand terms and images.
The Peter G. Peterson Foundation is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that is dedicated to increasing public awareness of the nature and urgency of key fiscal challenges threatening America's future, and to accelerating action on them. To address these challenges successfully, we work to bring Americans together to find and implement sensible, long-term solutions that transcend age, party lines and ideological divides in order to achieve real results.