Facing the Future

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How the nation’s fiscal and economic challenges, and possible solutions, impact current and future generations.

  1. قبل يومين

    Social Security Solvency Will Require Hard Choices

    This week on Facing the Future Wendell Primus, Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a former Senior Policy Advisor to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, described his plan to keep the Social Security trust fund from becoming insolvent as soon as 2032. Some political pain will be required.

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  2. ١٠ فبراير

    The Public Can Handle the Truth

    This week on Facing the Future, former Comptroller General of the United States and CEO of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) David Walker discussed his efforts to sound the alarm on the dangers of rising debt and unsustainable government commitments.

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  3. ٣ فبراير

    Congress Must Defuse the Debt Bomb

    This week on Facing the Future, Romina Boccia, director of budget and entitlement policy at the Cato Institute, explained the economic dangers of ignoring the nation's spiraling debt and suggested some Social Security and Medicare reforms that would help.

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  4. ٢٧ يناير

    The Economy, Tariffs and Greenland

    This week on Facing the Future, former Ambassador to Denmark Richard Swett discusses a way forward on U.S. interests in Greenland and Alex Durante, senior economist at the Tax Foundation, evaluates the impact of President Trump's tariff agenda.

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  5. ٢١ يناير

    Is Defense Spending Going Up?

    This week on Facing the Future we examined developments on the national security front with Michael O’Hanlon, senior fellow and director of research in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution and author of a timely new book called  “To Dare Mighty Things: U.S. Defense Strategy Since the Revolution”

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  6. ١٣ يناير

    Don't Mess With The Fed's Independence

    This week on Facing the Future, former Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) discussed the growing U.S. debt burden, the case for a fiscal commission, and why it's bad policy to attack the Fed's independence.

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  7. ٧ يناير

    The Urgency of Social Security Reform

    This week on Facing the Future, we discussed Social Security reform with Jason Fichtner, executive director of the LIMRA Retirement Income Institute and former chief economist at the Social Security Administration. With the program's main trust fund projected to be depleted by 2032, prompt action must be taken to avoid sudden benefit cuts.

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    Another Year Older and Deeper in Debt

    This week on Facing the Future, Concord Coalition executive director Carolyn Bourdeaux and other top members of Concord's staff look back on key fiscal developments of 2025 and the deepening debt challenges of 2026. Join us for Facing the Future's holiday 'Friends and Family' episode.

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How the nation’s fiscal and economic challenges, and possible solutions, impact current and future generations.

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