The Federal Budget Primer
The Peter G. Peterson Foundation presents a primer on the federal budget.
https://www.pgpf.org/budget-basics/the-federal-budget-primer
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The Peter G. Peterson Foundation presents a primer on the federal budget.
https://www.pgpf.org/budget-basics/the-federal-budget-primer
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
America faces a growing crisis. Our federal government has accumulated a $13.6 trillion debt over the last few decades, and this debt is expected to grow significantly in coming years.
The poverty rate in 2009 was 14.3 percent, up from 13.2 percent in 2008. This is the highest rate since 1994.
https://www.pgpf.org/analysis/census-bureau-report-on-poverty-and-health-insurance-coverage
Once we have a plan in place that reduces spending and increases revenues, a strong annual budget process for the government would help us stay on track.
https://www.pgpf.org/budget-basics/fixing-the-budget-process
The rapid growth in health care costs is the largest and fastest growing fiscal challenge.
Learn about steps you can take to help cure our fiscal ills.
https://www.pgpf.org/budget-basics/download-the-citizen%E2%80%99s-guide
I.O.U.S.A.: Solutions, a follow-up special that is premiering on CNN this weekend, will focus on solutions to the fiscal crisis and it will feature new footage from the producers of I.O.U.S.A. and a panel discussion with experts from a variety of viewpoints, spanning across generations.
https://www.pgpf.org/press-release/iousa-solutions-premieres-on-cnn
While proposals to raise the retirement age are intended to improve the financial health of the Social Security program, GAO finds that such changes could produce an opposite result, while also having an adverse impact on some of society’s most vulnerable members.
Highest ranking economic officials from both parties foresee another U.S. economic crisis within 10 years unless the country takes immediate action on structural deficit.