Broadband Access and The Digital Divide: What Is the Government’s Role?
Broadband is an indispensable tool for aspects of everyday life such as employment, education, and healthcare. As a result, federal policymakers have prioritized funding it.
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Broadband is an indispensable tool for aspects of everyday life such as employment, education, and healthcare. As a result, federal policymakers have prioritized funding it.
Social Security is the largest single federal program, and accounts for approximately one quarter of all federal spending.
https://www.pgpf.org/blog/celebrating-social-securitys-80th-anniversary
"Smart tax reform will promote economic growth, increase fairness and simplicity, and improve the nation’s fiscal outlook. From both a fiscal and economic standpoint, tax reform is essential," said Michael A. Peterson, President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.
https://www.pgpf.org/press-release/2017/08/peterson-foundation-statement-on-tax-reform
“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
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
Continuously updated billboards put a spotlight on $22 trillion national debt as part of 2020 campaign conversation.
Unless addressed soon, the growing national debt will "seriously jeopardize and undermine the American economy," said former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta.
"Surpassing $20 trillion in debt is the latest indicator of our nation's dire fiscal condition," said Michael A. Peterson, President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.