Choosing the Nation's Fiscal Future

Will The National Debt Push America Over the Falls?

Will The National Debt Push America Over the Falls?

Check out our latest video, where America’s leaders take us dangerously close to catastrophe by ignoring the growing perils of the national debt.

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Choosing the Nation’s Fiscal Future is the culmination of two years of work by the Committee on the Fiscal Future of the United States, a joint project of the National Academy of Public Administration and the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences. The report offers a variety of ways to solve the long-term fiscal challenge.

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There has been a lot of discussion among political leaders and the media about the ramifications of raising the debt ceiling as well as the overall size of the national debt lately. The number is staggering – currently at $14 trillion, and growing. To better visualize the how fast the debt is growing, we’ve developed [...]

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FROM THE REPORT

  • No one reading this report can avoid being struck by the magnitude of the long-term budget challenge facing the federal government. Other studies have called attention to this challenge in similar terms. This study provides a framework that leaders can use to systematically consider a range of choices . . .
  • This report neither presumes nor recommends a particular path to a stable fiscal future. In a democracy, it is not the role of experts from outside the government to decide important policy questions, especially questions of this magnitude. That is the task of political leaders.
  • If we as a nation do not grapple promptly and wisely with the changes needed to put the federal budget on a sustainable course, all of us will find that the public goals we most value are at risk. This report will have served its purpose if its insights and analytical framework are widely used to support serious discussion . . .
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This website was developed by the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) with funding from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The site and the fiscal future social media communities launched by Public Agenda are online supplements to the report developed by a joint committee of the National Academy of Public Administration and the National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academy of Sciences (...)

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CHOOSING OUR FISCAL FUTURE | 2013