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As part of the Up to Us initiative, student teams at various colleges and universities are kicking off competing campaigns designed to educate their peers on the effects of the nation's rising debt and motivate action in Washington on fiscal issues.
“Today’s CBO report shows ten straight years of trillion-dollar deficits. That’s a sad reflection of our nation’s poor fiscal health, and it adds insult to injury that we’re piling on all this debt in a growing economy,” said Michael A. Peterson, CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.
“Leaders from both parties have pledged to fully offset the cost of new spending, and voters want them to honor this commitment,” said Michael A. Peterson, CEO of the Peterson Foundation.
https://www.pgpf.org/press-release/2021/07/fci-press-release
There will be a number of consequences from a gradual increase in the federal funds rate over time.
A new five-year, $1.9 million grant will support the Howard University Department of Economics and the Women’s Institute on Science, Race and Equity (WISER) in their innovative work to increase diversity in the field of economics and promote greater inclusion in fiscal and economic policymaking.
Every month the U.S. Treasury releases data on the federal budget, including the current deficit. Here is the data for August 2021.
https://www.pgpf.org/the-current-federal-budget-deficit/budget-deficit-august-2021
“It makes no sense that we allow programs as essential as Social Security and Medicare to remain on such shaky and uncertain fiscal ground," said Michael A. Peterson, CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.
Over the next 10 years, the cumulative deficit would total $13.9 trillion if the President’s policies were carried out.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2021/09/deficits-will-remain-over-1-trillion-for-the-next-decade
Most notable and controversial among the reforms were movements to raise the minimum retirement age from 60 to 62 by 2018, and the full retirement age from 65 to 67 by 2023.
https://www.pgpf.org/analysis/retirement-reform-in-france-2010
It’s important for lawmakers to consider the many available policy options for improving that outlook.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2018/12/121-ways-we-can-reduce-the-deficit-according-to-cbo