A New Way To Look At Our National Debt
Today, we’re launching an original series of interactive data visualizations that are a new way to look at our national fiscal picture. We’re proud to release the first in the series, “Long-Term Debt: An Unsustainable Future,” which shows that while we’ve made some short-term, modest improvements, we still haven’t addressed the major drivers of our long-term debt.
Click here to watch and interact with “Long-Term Debt: An Unsustainable Future.” Let us know what you think, and stay tuned for future editions, examining additional topics, coming soon.
About the Peter G. Peterson Foundation
The Peter G. Peterson Foundation is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization established by Pete Peterson – businessman, philanthropist, and former U.S. Secretary of Commerce. The Foundation is dedicated to increasing public awareness of the nature and urgency of key long-term fiscal challenges threatening America’s future and to accelerating action on them. To address these challenges successfully, we work to bring Americans together to find and implement sensible, long-term solutions that transcend age, party lines and ideological divides in order to achieve real results. To learn more, please visit www.PGPF.org.
Further Reading
Spending on Veterans in the Budget
Federal spending for veterans has increased relatively sharply in the past two decades as scores of veterans returned home from extended wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Continuing Resolutions Are Stopgap Measures — But Now We Average Five a Year
While continuing resolutions can help avoid government shutdowns, they should be rarely used. However, CRs have become the norm.
What Is a Continuing Resolution?
A continuing resolution is a temporary funding measure that Congress can use to fund the federal government for a limited amount of time.