High School Students Aren't Taught About the National Debt
The nation’s schools teachers feel ill-prepared to teach basic federal budget terms and engage students in public policy questions to promote active citizenship.
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The nation’s schools teachers feel ill-prepared to teach basic federal budget terms and engage students in public policy questions to promote active citizenship.
Short-term deficits are down, but serious long-term fiscal challenges remain. Fortunately, many good solutions exist.
https://www.pgpf.org/infographic/infographic-solutions-do-exist
To further efforts to reduce the costs and improve the quality of health care in this country, PGPF has provided grant money to the Institute of Medicine, the health arm of the National Academy of Science.
https://www.pgpf.org/what-we-are-doing/grants/addressing-the-costs-and-quality-of-healthcare
One issue that most lawmakers and voters agree on is that our tax system needs reform.
https://www.pgpf.org/infographic/how-the-us-tax-system-works
The fairness of our federal tax system is a hotly debated issue. Too often, however, those debates confuse or misrepresent important facts because they focus on one type of tax in isolation rather than the various taxes that people face in aggregate.
Social Security is an important program that is part of the fabric of America. We must ensure that Social Security is available for future generations.
https://www.pgpf.org/budget-basics/making-social-security-sustainable
Summer 2011 PGPF Fiscal Internship Program in Washington DC
https://www.pgpf.org/content/summer-2011-pgpf-fiscal-internship-program-in-washington-dc
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
Sequestration was designed to be a blunt instrument, whose arbitrary effects would be so undesirable that they would compel policymakers to reach compromise on budget legislation rather than allow the cuts to go into effect.
As the nation shifts its attention from the election to the major challenge posed by the upcoming Fiscal Cliff, some of the country's most influential voices on fiscal and economic issues will come together at a forum convened by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.