Budget Basics: Spending Primer
The U.S. spent $187 billion on interest payments alone in 2009.
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The U.S. spent $187 billion on interest payments alone in 2009.
The rapid growth in health care costs is the largest and fastest growing fiscal challenge.
The reports provide both the short-and long-term financial outlooks for the trust funds.
According to the Joint Committee on Taxation, the provisions in this agreement will add $857.8 billion to the deficit by 2020.
https://www.pgpf.org/analysis/2010/12/compromise-tax-framework-agreement
The Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform's second report, Getting Back in the Black, offers a detailed set of options to reform the federal budget process.
https://www.pgpf.org/what-we-are-doing/grants/peterson-pew-commission-report
I.O.U.S.A.: Solutions, a follow-up special that is premiering on CNN this weekend, will focus on solutions to the fiscal crisis and it will feature new footage from the producers of I.O.U.S.A. and a panel discussion with experts from a variety of viewpoints, spanning across generations.
https://www.pgpf.org/press-release/iousa-solutions-premieres-on-cnn
The Peter G. Peterson Foundation issues a statement in response to the U.S. Senate vote on the Conrad-Gregg amendment.
The defense share of the federal budget has averaged 21 percent over the past two decades.
The Peter G. Peterson Foundation releases a statement on the completion of fiscal commission appointments.
The poverty rate in 2009 was 14.3 percent, up from 13.2 percent in 2008. This is the highest rate since 1994.
https://www.pgpf.org/analysis/census-bureau-report-on-poverty-and-health-insurance-coverage