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A dyanmic panel brought perspectives from across the country to assess the current state of America’s economic engine and the role that state and local governments play in our nation’s fiscal and economic future.
Even if Congress raises the debt limit and avoids default, last-minute brinksmanship alone has the potential to create economic damage.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2017/09/how-the-lack-of-action-on-the-debt-limit-can-hurt-the-economy
By making gradual changes to federal spending and revenue, lawmakers can not only stabilize our fiscal outlook, but provide long-run economic benefits for American families (in terms of real GNP growth) without inflicting undue damage on the U.S. economy in the near term.
On our current path, CBO projects that deficits will reach $1.0 trillion by 2022 and total $10.1 trillion over the next ten years.
https://www.pgpf.org/analysis/2017/06/cbo-unsustainable-deficits-threaten-future-economic-growth
The United States ranks only 13th in income mobility from one generation to the next.
https://www.pgpf.org/Chart-Archive/0219_generational_income_mobility
A new report from the George W. Bush Institute highlights the economic competitiveness and strength of North America — but warns that fiscal policy in the United States poses a challenge to growth.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2016/12/report-us-debt-a-drag-on-competitiveness
"Today’s CBO report confirms that the era of declining deficits is over," according to Michael A. Peterson, President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.
CBO projects that federal debt will climb to 141 percent of GDP within 30 years — exceeding the highest level of debt ever recorded at the end of World War II by a large margin.
Projections of the long-term budget outlook have deteriorated significantly since last year, largely stemming from the “tax extenders” legislation enacted at the end of 2015.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2016/07/four-key-takeaways-from-the-long-term-budget-outlook
Many Americans born in the top and bottom income quintiles remain in those income groups as adults.
