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Below are some additional resources to learn more about this growing problem, and what you can do to help address it.
Datasets:
Events:
- Video of “Are We Moving the Needle on the National Debt?” Briefing, May 26, 2011
- Video of “Are the Debt Reduction Stars Aligned?” Briefing,November 30, 2010
- Video Highlights of “The Buck Stops Where?” Briefing, June 30, 2010
- Video of Press Conference for Launch of Choosing the Nation’s Fiscal Future, January 13, 2010
Additional Reading:
- Primer: The Difference Between Deficits And Debts
National Public Radio, November 22, 2010 - ”What’s a Billion Really Worth?”
Adapted from Where Does the Money Go? Your Guided Tour to the Federal Budget Crisis
by Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson, of Public Agenda - ”Here’s What We’re Up Against”
Students Face Up to the Nation’s Finances, Public Agenda - Fixing Social Security
National Academy of Social Insurance - The Social Security Fix It Book
Center for Retirement Research - Reducing U.S. debt: Ideas from the Hall of Lame
CNNMoney.com, January 4, 2010 - U.S. Debt Scolds Can’t Be Ignored Much Longer: Alice M. Rivlin
Businessweek.com, January 07, 2010 - A Citizen’s Guide to the Financial Condition of the United States Government
Government:
- Office of Management and Budget
- Office of Management and Budget – Government Performance
- Office of Management and Budget – FY 2010 Budget and More
- Congressional Budget Office
- Congressional Budget Office: The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2010 to 2020
- House Budget Committee
- Senate Budget Committee
- U.S. Treasury Direct
- U.S. Treasury FAQ: The National Debt
- U.S. Bureau of the Public Debt
Non- Profit Groups:
- American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
- The Brookings Institution
- Budgetball: Get Fiscal
- Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
- Concord Coalition
- Facing Up to the Nation’s Finances
- The Heritage Foundation
- State of the USA
- Public Agenda
- Peter G. Peterson Foundation
- The Urban Institute
From the Government Accountability Office:
- GAO Report on U.S. Treasury Debt Management Challenges
- The Federal Government’s Long-Term Fiscal Outlook (GAO)
- Fiscal Year 2008 U.S. Government Financial Statements
- GAO: 21st Century Challenges – Reexamining the Base of the Federal Government
From the Social Security Advisory Board:
- Working for Retirement Security
- Social Security: Why Action Should be Taken Soon
- Social Security Advisory Board Annual Report 2008
- Challenges Facing the Social Security Administration: Present and Future–Report to the President-Elect Transition Team
- The Unsustainable Cost of Health Care
Books. Papers, and Presentations:
- The Financial and Economic Consequences of an Exploding Debt, Leonard E. Burman, The Urban Institute, 2009
- Fiscal Days of Reckoning, C. Eugene Steuerle, The Urban Institute, November 2009
- Restoring Fiscal Sanity 2007: The Health Spending Challenge, Alice Rivlin and Joseph Antos, The Brookings Institution, 2007
- Sustained Budget Deficits: Longer-Run U.S. Economic Performance and the Risk of Financial and Fiscal Disarray, Peter Orszag, Robert E. Rubin, Allen Sinai, The Urban Institute, 2004
- How U.S. Debt Endgame Might Occur, Desmond Lachman, AEI Online, November 2009
- Inflation Scare: Crazy but Real, John H. Makin, AEI Online, July 2009
Videos and Voices
Note: These videos were not created by the Choosing the Nation’s Fiscal Future report’s sponsoring organizations, and we cannot be responsible for any omissions or errors.
- Solutions For Bringing Down The National Debt
- What If China Collected on U.S. Debt?
- Hearing on Foreign Holdings of U.S. Debt: Orszag’s Testimony
- The U.S. Debt – Check out What You Owe the Gov’t
- USA: A Nation In Debt- A Ticking Time Bomb
- Adorable Puppy Explains Health Care Bill
- Streettalk: Medicare / Social Security’s Future
- Wake Up Young People
- The future of social security
- Medicare, Social Security and the dignity of The American People
- BDJ Cash Question: Medicare Funding
- Can Cutting Off Wealthy Seniors Save Medicare?
- U.S. National Debt Grows To Large For National Debt Clock
- How much is a billion dollars?
- How much is 1 trillion dollars?
- What does a million, a billion, and a trillion look like?
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