Foundation Projects
Learn about Peterson Foundation projects designed to address America's long-term fiscal and economic challenges.
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Learn about Peterson Foundation projects designed to address America's long-term fiscal and economic challenges.
In January 2013, a series of tax increases and spending cuts are slated to go into effect automatically and all at once. Many are calling this major fiscal policy shift the "Fiscal Cliff." If all of the changes are allowed to proceed, future budget deficits would be substantially reduced. However, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has forecast that the economy would be thrown into recession in 2013 — an outcome that threatens our still-fragile economic recovery.
Civic leaders, top CEOs and leading budget experts met in Washington, D.C. today to discuss the national debt and America's unsustainable fiscal trajectory, and to announce the launch of The Campaign to Fix the Debt.
The Coalition for Fiscal and National Security urges policymakers to stabilize our national debt and renew and rebalance our national security strategies.
https://www.pgpf.org/pgpf-programs-and-projects/2016-cfns-statement
The research-based, inquiry-driven Understanding Fiscal Responsibility curriculum connect students to the current public policy dilemmas about the federal budget, national debt, and budget deficit that confront the United States.
https://www.pgpf.org/what-we-are-doing/grants/columbia-university-teachers-college
The State Budget Crisis Task Force released the first-ever comprehensive report detailing threats to states' fiscal sustainability and actions that can be taken to address them.
https://www.pgpf.org/what-we-are-doing/grants/state-budget-crisis-task-force-announcement
In 2008, Emory University received funding from the Foundation to create and support the work of the Center for Entitlement Reform.
https://www.pgpf.org/what-we-are-doing/grants/improving-health-care-value
The Volcker Alliance, building off prior work by the State Budget Crisis Task Force, has released a preliminary report studying fiscal practices at the state-government level.
The Peter G. Peterson Foundation is providing a $1 million grant to the newly established Warren B. Rudman Center for Justice, Leadership and Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire School of Law.
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