
Peterson Foundation Launches National Debt Clocks in Cities Across America
Continuously updated billboards put a spotlight on $22 trillion national debt as part of 2020 campaign conversation.
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Continuously updated billboards put a spotlight on $22 trillion national debt as part of 2020 campaign conversation.
As another fiscal year of budget uncertainty and rising deficits comes to an end , the vast majority of Americans want the president and Congress to address the national debt.
https://www.pgpf.org/press-release/2019/09/fci-press-release
Modeled after the Consumer Confidence Index, the Fiscal Confidence Index is a national survey that measures public opinion about the national debt.
Over the past 50 years, the share of the federal budget devoted to investments in the future has fallen sharply.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0302_declining_investment_future
Spending on children is shrinking as a percent of GDP.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2019/09/how-much-government-spending-goes-to-children
To account for the continuation of current policies, CBO also prepares what is known as an alternative fiscal scenario (AFS), which can be helpful for lawmakers and the general public in understanding a range of potential outcomes.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2019/09/what-is-an-alternative-fiscal-scenario
Deficits would be even higher under an alternative fiscal scenario.
Every month the U.S. Treasury releases data on the federal budget, including the current deficit. Here is the data for August 2019.
https://www.pgpf.org/the-current-federal-budget-deficit/budget-deficit-august-2019
Every month the U.S. Treasury releases data on the federal budget, including the current deficit. Here is the data for September 2019.
https://www.pgpf.org/the-current-federal-budget-deficit/budget-deficit-september-2019
Spending on federal entitlement programs will more than double between 1984 and 2049.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0027_entitlement-programs-proj