9 Charts That Show How Our Fiscal Outlook Has Gone from Bad to Worse
Significant damage was done to America’s fiscal outlook over the past year.
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Significant damage was done to America’s fiscal outlook over the past year.
Programs that millions of Americans depend on and care about may be feeling a squeeze from interest costs on our high and rising national debt.
The dust has barely settled on the midterm elections, but there are a number of key fiscal issues not only facing the current Congress in coming weeks, but also awaiting the new Congress, which will convene in early 2019.
Child poverty reduced the size of the U.S. economy by an estimated $1 trillion dollars, or 5.4 percent of gross domestic product, in 2015, according to a new study.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2018/09/what-are-the-economic-costs-of-child-poverty
The rising costs of prescription drugs and their effect on Medicare could have serious consequences on our healthcare system and our nation’s long-term fiscal well-being.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2018/09/how-will-the-rising-cost-of-prescription-drugs-affect-medicare
Young college graduates today are entering the workforce with an unprecedented amount of student debt. How does student debt relate to the economic outlook for younger Americans and the finances of the U.S. government?
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2018/07/the-facts-about-student-debt
Understanding the United States’ changing labor force can be a key part of understanding larger trends in the overall economy. Here are key characteristics of the foreign-born population and how they compare to the native-born population.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2018/06/the-foreign-born-labor-force-of-the-united-states
Proposed work requirements would be a major change in the way that Medicaid works, and would have important implications for the program, its beneficiaries, and the federal budget.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2018/03/who-will-be-affected-by-medicaid-work-requirements
What is the Children’s Health Insurance Program? How it is financed? Who benefits from it?
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2017/12/three-key-things-to-know-about-chip