Facing the Future

Facing the Future

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Facing the Future episodes

  • Remembering Rudman & Dealmaking in Divided Government

    Chase is joined on the show by Concord Coalition Executive Director, Bob Bixby, Policy Director, Tori Gorman, Jon Lieber, managing director at the Eurasia Group, and attorney Brad Cook. They discuss the leadership and legacy of the late U.S. Senator for New Hampshire, Warren B. Rudman, on the fortieth anniversary of his first campaign for the Senate, as well as the process and implications of policymaking in a potentially-divided federal government.

    46 min
  • The Next Four Years: Challenges and Opportunities

    Chase is joined on the show by Concord Coalition Executive Director, Bob Bixby, and Policy Director, Tori Gorman. They discuss the fiscal and economic challenges facing the President and Congress over the next four years as well as action-forcing events on fiscal policy.

    45 min
  • Pro-Growth Workforce Training, Federal R&D

    Chase is joined on the show by Concord Coalition Executive Director, Bob Bixby, Urban Institute Fellow, Bob Lerman, and Rob Atkinson, president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. They discuss how workforce investment and training and federal research and development can improve workforce productivity and long-term economic growth.

    46 min
  • Pro-Growth, Legal Immigration

    Chase is joined on the show by Concord Coalition Executive Director, Bob Bixby, Concord’s Policy Director, Tori Gorman, and Dr. Doug Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum and former Congressional Budget Office director. They discuss how legal immigration reform fits into the long-term economic growth conversation, as well as how the pandemic has impacted the economy and the nation's fiscal health.

    46 min
  • Pro-Growth Social Security Reform

    Chase is joined on the show by Concord Coalition Executive Director, Bob Bixby, Concord’s Policy Director, Tori Gorman, and Sr. Policy Director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, Marc Goldwein. They discuss Goldwein’s paper on pro-growth Social Security reform and how it might need to be adapted in the post-COVID era, how presidential candidates are approaching fiscal policy right now and the status of pandemic-relief legislation negotiations.

    45 min
  • Post-Pandemic Health Care Reform

    Chase is joined on the show by Joe Antos, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, Josh Gordon, director of Health Policy at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, and Bob Bixby, The Concord Coalition’s executive director. They discuss health care policy reform with long-term economic growth and the pandemic in mind.

    46 min
  • Looking Ahead: Telehealth and National Debt

    Chase is joined on the show by former Congressman Charlie Stenholm, Cole Stenholm, Director of Health Care for the Progressive Policy Institute, Arielle Kane, and Concord Coalition Executive Director, Bob Bixby. They discuss everything from fiscal responsibility to health care reforms and innovations like telehealth.

    46 min
  • PPI's Vision for Recovery, Resilience

    Chase is joined on the show by President and Founder of the Progressive Policy Institute, Will Marshall, Concord Coalition Policy Director, Tori Gorman, and Concord's Executive Director, Bob Bixby. They discuss PPI's proposal,“Building American Resilience: A Roadmap for Recovery After COVID-19,” and the Congressional Budget Office's latest long-term outlook.

    45 min
  • Retirement: When and How?

    Chase is joined on the show by Jason Fichtner, senior lecturer and an associate director of the Master of International Economics and Finance program at Johns Hopkins University, and Concord Coalition Executive Director, Bob Bixby. They discuss Social Security, retirement planning, fiscal and economic policy, monetary policy, long-term fiscal responsibility and the Congressional Budget Office's monthly budget review.

    45 min
  • No Time to Hang Up Your Hats

    Chase is joined on the show by Jon Lieber, managing director at the Eurasia Group, Concord Coalition Executive Director, Bob Bixby, and Concord’s Policy Director, Tori Gorman. They discuss the Congressional Budget Office’s recently updated budget baseline, its impact on post-pandemic tax and spending policies, what to expect in the appropriations process as we near the end of the fiscal year, COVID-19 relief legislation and the latest U.S. jobs report.

    46 min

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

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