Facing the Future

Facing the Future

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Facing the Future episodes

  • Millennials and The Fiscal Flywheel

    Chase is joined on the show by Concord Coalition Executive Director Bob Bixby, COO of the Millennial Action Project Layla Zaidane and Steven Borne an engineer, political junkie and newly published author of "Consuming Government." They discuss Millennial perspectives on key issues, building trust amongst members of Congress, fiscal policy, government efficiency and more.

    46 min
  • Millennial Perspective: Climate Change and National Debt

    Chase is joined on the show by Concord Coalition Executive Director Bob Bixby, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution Stuart Butler and Tim Higashi, a senior research analyst at Brookings. They discuss a recent forum exploring Millennials' attitudes toward the national debt and climate change, as well as related research.

    46 min
  • Shutdown, Tax Cuts and Medicare For All

    This week on Facing the Future, guest host Robert L. Bixby, Executive Director of The Concord Coalition is joined by the Senior Vice President and Director of Research at The Committee for Economic Development, Joe Minarek. Tune in to hear them discuss Medicare For All, potential new tax cuts on the horizon and more.

    39 min
  • Trust Fiscal Facts

    Guest host Concord Coalition Executive Director Bob Bixby talks with Josh Gordon, former Concord policy director and current Executive Vice President at Free the Facts. They discuss the final 2019 budget numbers, the bipartisan TRUST Act, and Josh's new organization.

    36 min
  • Reforming the ‘Third Rail’ of Politics

    Chase is joined on the show by Concord Coalition Executive Director Bob Bixby and Sr. VP and Sr. Policy Director at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget Marc Goldwein. They discuss Social Security reform and how it fits into Concord's new fiscally responsible economic growth agenda.

    44 min
  • Fiscally Responsible Economic Growth

    Chase is joined on the show by Concord Coalition Executive Director Bob Bixby. They discuss Concord's new fiscally-responsible economic growth agenda, which concerns key topics like health care, workforce development, R&D investment, Social Security and immigration reform.

    45 min
  • Missed Opportunity Costs

    Chase is joined on the show by Concord Coalition Executive Director Bob Bixby and Senior Advisor at the Penn Wharton Budget Model Diane Lim. They discuss missed opportunity costs created by a large-and-growing national debt, perennial budget deficits and interest on the debt.

    44 min
  • Interactive Budgets

    Chase is joined on the show by New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute Policy Analyst Phil Sletten. They discuss interactive budget exercises, similarities and differences between state and federal budget processes and the impact federal policies can have on state budget decisions.

    46 min
  • Reforming Health Care, Restoring Bipartisanship

    Chase is joined on the show by Concord Coalition Executive Director Bob Bixby, former Congressman and Ambassador Dick Swett and Wilson H. Taylor Resident Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy at the American Enterprise Institute Joe Antos. They discuss bipartisanship, political dysfunction, a new report on health care reform from AEI and the Brookings Institution and more.

    45 min
  • Making Fiscal Policy More Real, Relatable

    Chase is joined on the show by Concord Coalition Executive Director Bob Bixby, Senior Policy Fellow in Economic Freedom at Americans for Prosperity Alison Acosta Winters and Senior Advisor at the Penn Wharton Budget Model, and Economist Mom, Diane Lim. They discuss the work of PWBM and AFP on economic and fiscal policy and determine that a new "Fiscal Wake-up Tour" is needed.

    45 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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