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The growing cost of prescription drugs presents a significant challenge to the quality and affordability of healthcare in the United States.
One issue that most lawmakers and voters agree on is that our tax system needs reform.
https://www.pgpf.org/infographic/infographic-how-the-us-tax-system-works
The report highlights the structural misalignment in the country’s budget and the resulting unsustainable fiscal trajectory.
The latest Financial Times-Peterson Foundation US Economic Monitor, released on June 4, 2020, reveals how the coronavirus pandemic continues to have significant financial and economic impacts across wide swaths of American society.
The latest Financial Times-Peterson Foundation US Economic Monitor, released on July 7, 2020, reveals timely data about Americans’ deep concerns about the health and economic effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
“Today’s report provides a troubling snapshot of America’s fiscal outlook, which we know will only get worse from here,” said Michael A. Peterson, CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.
https://www.pgpf.org/press-release/2021/03/peterson-statement-on-cbos-long-term-outlook
The United States spends more on defense than the next 10 countries combined.
The primary deficit focuses on the difference between government revenues and spending, excluding interest payments. Learn more about the U.S. primary deficit.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2021/02/what-is-the-primary-deficit
Setting a higher minimum wage would affect family incomes in a variety of ways, including increasing earnings for most low-wage workers and lifting some families out of poverty.
The debt growing to double the size of GDP is, in many respects, a symbolic milestone — but it is a clear indicator of the monumentally unsustainable path of our fiscal trajectory.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2021/02/the-national-debt-will-grow-to-be-twice-the-size-of-the-economy