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In the legislative days remaining before the 113th Congress adjourns, there is much urgent work to be done to put the nation on a more sustainable and predictable path, now and in the future.
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In the legislative days remaining before the 113th Congress adjourns, there is much urgent work to be done to put the nation on a more sustainable and predictable path, now and in the future.
“We’re clearly heading in the wrong direction, and it’s unfortunate that our leaders are not putting forward credible plans to improve our fiscal foundation," said Michael A. Peterson, President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.
Amid ongoing negotiations in Washington since the expiration of key relief programs, 89% of voters say that America needs another coronavirus economic aid package, according to the latest Financial Times-Peterson Foundation US Economic Monitor.
America’s economic rebound from the coronavirus pandemic seems to have begun, depending on location, according to Phillip Swagel, the director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has exposed major U.S. healthcare issues from lack of preparedness to inequities in impact and access, but key lessons can help improve the system going forward, according to two leading experts.
https://www.pgpf.org/what-we-are-doing/events/economic-forum/the-us-healthcare-system
The Foundation is developing a growing program of initiatives and grants aimed at fostering improvements in the U.S. healthcare system, which Jeffrey D. Selberg, MHA, will shape and oversee.
Over the 2011-2020 period CBO’s deficit estimates are more that $1 trillion higher than those projected by the Administration.
https://www.pgpf.org/press-release/cbos-reestimate-of-the-presidents-budget
The Volcker Alliance, building off prior work by the State Budget Crisis Task Force, has released a preliminary report studying fiscal practices at the state-government level.
The budget would achieve some deficit reduction on paper under the administration's calculations, but it fails to address the key drivers of our debt.
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.