10 Charts that Show How the United States Failed to Improve Its Fiscal Outlook in 2023
The end of 2023 marks another year that the country has failed to improve its daunting fiscal outlook.
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The end of 2023 marks another year that the country has failed to improve its daunting fiscal outlook.
A group of respected policy experts share their views on how a bipartisan fiscal commission could help break the cycle of governing by crisis.
Defense spending by the United States accounted for nearly 40 percent of military expenditures by countries around the world in 2023.
Today, the Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their annual reports on the programs’ financing, showing that the future of these vital programs remain at risk.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2024/05/social-security-and-medicare-are-facing-serious-shortfalls
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The Treasury projects that debt as a percentage of GDP will grow to more than five times the size of the U.S. economy in the next 75 years.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2024/03/delaying-fiscal-reform-is-costly-annual-treasury-report-warns
Over the last four decades, federal grants to state and local governments have made up about 17 percent of their total revenues.
The economic turbulence in the United Kingdom demonstrates that fiscal responsibility is increasingly important in an era of high inflation and rising interest rates.
At the end of May, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released new projections of the nation’s fiscal and economic outlook, their first report since July 2021.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2022/06/8-startling-facts-about-the-us-fiscal-outlook
A new report sheds light on budgets at the state level, grading performance and identifying best practices for improvement.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2019/02/state-budgets-also-face-tough-fiscal-challenges