Happy Fiscal New Year 2017! Looking Back and Ahead
While the last minute passage of a continuing resolution avoided a government shutdown, the relief may be only temporary.
https://www.pgpf.org/analysis/2016/10/happy-fiscal-new-year-2017
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While the last minute passage of a continuing resolution avoided a government shutdown, the relief may be only temporary.
https://www.pgpf.org/analysis/2016/10/happy-fiscal-new-year-2017
“Voters understand that we are continuing to endure a terrible public health and economic crisis, but they also realize that we are piling on trillions of debt to what was already an unsustainable fiscal outlook,” said Michael A. Peterson, CEO of the Peterson Foundation.
https://www.pgpf.org/press-release/2021/03/fci-press-release
Medicare spending is projected to rise rapidly.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0276_medicare_spending_long-term
Medicaid provides health insurance to low-income Americans. Children make up nearly half of the program’s enrollment, but most spending is directed towards the elderly and disabled.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0093_medicaid_demographics
Medicare's Hospital Insurance trust fund will be depleted in 2026.
General revenue — not the Medicare payroll tax — is now the largest source of Medicare’s financing.
Transfers from programs like Medicaid, CHIP, and SNAP represent an increasing share of income for low to middle income groups.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0234_transfer_programs_share_income
By the Numbers: 2021 Trustees Reports.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0321_trustees_reports_2021
Federal outlays for highways and mass transit are projected to continue outstripping the revenues that finance them.
https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0283-outlays-revenues-highways
"With high inflation, economic uncertainty and the national debt surpassing $31 trillion, voters are rightly concerned about our nation’s fiscal and economic outlook in this year’s pivotal election,” said Michael A. Peterson, CEO of the Peterson Foundation.
https://www.pgpf.org/press-release/2022/10/fci-press-release