Deficits Grow in Recessions
Recessions and countercyclical policies generally increase deficits, but deficits tend to diminish during and after recoveries.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0307_deficits_and_recessions
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Recessions and countercyclical policies generally increase deficits, but deficits tend to diminish during and after recoveries.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0307_deficits_and_recessions
Medicare and Medicaid account for the majority of federal healthcare spending
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0169_federal_health_spending_composition
Michael Peterson writes an op-ed in Roll Call about the fiscal issues that plague the U.S. in the new year.
https://www.pgpf.org/press-release/op-ed-new-fiscal-year-same-fiscal-problems
The United States is on pace to lead the world in debt increase as a percentage of GDP.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0310_us_lead_world_debt_increase
Foreign investors own one-third of all U.S. public debt.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0311_us_domestic_foreign_debt
“The vast majority of Americans across party lines continue to urge national leaders to manage the debt,” said Michael A. Peterson, CEO of the Peterson Foundation.
https://www.pgpf.org/press-release/2019/03/fci-press-release
On Wednesday, May 25, 2011, senior Administration officials, policy experts and Democratic and Republican elected leaders will come together in Washington to discuss solutions to the nation’s fiscal challenges at the 2011 Fiscal Summit: Solutions for America’s Future, convened by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.
Debt rises and falls with wars and changes in the economy. Debt is currently at its highest level since 1946.