2018 Fiscal Summit Media Advisory
As campaigns for the 2018 midterm elections get underway within a rapidly changing policy environment, America’s unsustainable fiscal condition remains a transcendent threat to our collective future.
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As campaigns for the 2018 midterm elections get underway within a rapidly changing policy environment, America’s unsustainable fiscal condition remains a transcendent threat to our collective future.
The Peter G. Peterson Foundation today convened a broad range of senior officials, policy-makers, elected leaders, and experts at its first-ever "2010 Fiscal Summit: America’s Crisis and A Way Forward" to launch a national bipartisan dialogue on America’s fiscal challenges.
Americans must task their newly elected officials with tackling the nation's debt — and hold them accountable for results.
https://www.pgpf.org/analysis/for-a-stronger-economy-deal-with-the-debt
Historically, debt and deficits rose with wars and economic downturns. Today, they rise from factors such as growing healthcare costs and an aging population.
U.S. dependency on foreign lenders to finance the public debt has risen sharply.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0057_foreign-holders-debt
Debt rises and falls with wars and changes in the economy. Debt is currently at its highest level since 1946.
Debt levels have risen in many sectors of the economy.