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The Fiscal & Economic Challenge
Discover why our fiscal health and economic strength are so closely tied, and why it is important to get the deficit under control and work toward a balanced budget.
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Browse our extensive collection of articles, analyses, charts, infographics and videos of key fiscal policy issues, which include long-term debt, taxes, the fiscal outlook and more.Press Releases & Statements
Jun 12, 2019
Seven Leading Think Tanks Put Forward Plans to Significantly Reduce Nation’s Debt
Peterson Foundation’s ‘Solutions Initiative’ Produces Policy Options to Build Stronger Fiscal Future for America.
https://www.pgpf.org/press-release/2019/06/2019-solutions-initiative-2019-press-release
Programs & Projects
Mar 15, 2019
Preparing the Future Workforce: Early Care and Education Participation Among Children of Immigrants
This project seeks to understand how mobility has evolved over the course of the 20th Century to predict how it may evolve over the next 30 years. It examines neighborhood factors that affect mobility and investigates whether the historical characteristics of childhood neighborhoods affect adult outcomes. The paper includes results for children by race, gender and levels of parental income.
About the Peterson Foundation
Joan Ganz Cooney
Joan Ganz Cooney, is co-founder of the Children's Television Workshop (renamed, Sesame Workshop June 2000) and originator of the preschool educational series, Sesame Street, and served as President and Chief Executive Officer until 1990.
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Apr 27, 2023
What is Inflation and Why Does it Matter?
Here’s an overview of inflation, why it matters, and how it’s managed.
https://www.pgpf.org/budget-basics/what-is-inflation-and-why-does-it-matter
About the Peterson Foundation
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Jan 4, 2024
Budget Basics: Tax Expenditures
Tax expenditures can come in the form of exclusions, exemptions, deductions, and credits.
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Tax Reform
Tax reform done right would promote economic growth, make our fiscal outlook more sustainable, reduce the complexity and burden of compliance, and increase the system’s transparency and fairness.
Events
2016 Fiscal Summit: Leadership for a Secure Future
The seventh annual Fiscal Summit was held on May 11, 2016 in Washington DC, convening leading experts and policymakers to examine the state of economic opportunity in America today.
https://www.pgpf.org/what-we-are-doing/fiscal-summit/2016-fiscal-summit