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Nov 8, 2010
Budget Basics: Spending Primer
The U.S. spent $187 billion on interest payments alone in 2009.
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Explainers
Nov 9, 2010
Budget Basics: The Challenge
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.
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Nov 9, 2010
Budget Basics: The Other 20% of Federal Spending
Making changes to defense, health care and Social Security will help us reduce our debt, and also leave money to fund other critical responsibilities and invest in our future.
https://www.pgpf.org/budget-basics/the-other-20-of-federal-spending
Analysis
Nov 9, 2010
Improving Health Care
The rapid growth in health care costs is the largest and fastest growing fiscal challenge.
Explainers
Nov 9, 2010
Budget Basics: National Defense
The defense share of the federal budget has averaged 21 percent over the past two decades.
Explainers
Nov 9, 2010
Budget Basics: Making Social Security Sustainable
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
Analysis
Nov 18, 2010
GAO: The Federal Government’s Long-Term Fiscal Outlook Fall 2010 Update
Under the GAO’s most realistic fiscal scenario, debt held by the public will exceed 109 percent of GDP by 2020.
Analysis
Dec 14, 2010
Government Accountability Office: Raising the Retirement Ages Affects Older Workers
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.
Analysis
Mar 21, 2011
CBO Analysis on President Obama's FY 2012 Budget
These projections provide fresh evidence that the nation’s fiscal policy is on an unsustainable course and changes in policy will be needed.
Analysis
Mar 23, 2011
Analysis of GAO Update To Federal Government’s Long-Term Fiscal Outlook
Relative to the GAO’s last update of their long-term simulation, the nation’s fiscal condition has deteriorated.