Fiscal Health

Finding solutions to the nation's long-term debt crisis

Throughout the ongoing U.S. debt crisis, CED has provided in-depth, non-partisan analysis and outreach focused on the case for principled compromise in the U.S. Congress, the media, and the American public. CED's business and academic leaders have advocated for a bipartisan solution to the nation's long-term debt crisis in forums and other events around the country and at key points in the political debates.

A balanced approach to the nation's long-term debt crisis
Endorse Now | List of Endorsers | Press Release

Statement to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction and List of Endorsers
Press Release | Letter to the Joint Select Committee

CED statement on the debt-ceiling crisis
List of Endorsers | Press Release

Letter of support for the Bipartisan Policy Center's Recommendations

What's New

News
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Roanoke symposium addresses national debt
By Amy Matzke-Fawcett"Unsustainable" was the byword Wednesday as more than 250 people gathered in Roanoke to hear three politicians piped in from Washington and two... read more
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
National Debt Tour rolls into Roanoke
Joe Dashiell Reporter, wdbj7.comROANOKE, Va.—It's like a five-alarm fire, but you can't see the flames. That's how one expert described the growing danger of the... read more
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Budget Deficit Narrows on Higher Income-Tax Revenue
By Damian Paletta, Wall Street JournalWASHINGTON—The federal budget deficit appears to be narrowing slowly but steadily, as corporate and individual income taxes rise thanks to... read more
Commentary
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Some Key Points About The House Republican Budget Resolution
The late North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms once told a story of a defense planner in the early years of World War II, who was... read more
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Self-employed key to economic recovery; help them
Everyone is looking for a plan to create jobs in America. But what if we set our sights on helping people to work, rather than... read more
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
The End of the Beginning
by Joe Minarik, CED Senior Vice President and Director of Research Sadly, we have seen the end of the Supercommittee. It failed to meet its deadline... read more
Events
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
A Blueprint Or A Bridge To Nowhere? CED's Annual Analysis of the Budget Outlook
On February 28, 2012, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. EST, the Committee for Economic Development will host a webinar featuring a detailed analysis of the... read more
Monday, January 9, 2012
Understanding the Federal Budget
Joseph Minarik, CED Senior Vice President and Director of Research, will speak at a media seminar entitled "Understanding the Federal Budget," on January 9, 2012... read more
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Forum on Debt-Reduction in Kansas City, MO
On November 17th CED presented an update on the nation's fiscal crisis to approximately 60 members of the Kansas City Civic Council in Kansas City,... read more
Reports
Friday, November 4, 2011
CED releases new report: “To Reform Medicare, Reform Incentives and Organization
Alain C. Enthoven’s paper, To Reform Medicare, Reform Incentives And Organization, explains how the principles of cost-responsible consumer choice among competing health-insurance plans, sometimes called... read more
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
This Way Down
CED Releases Budget Debt Crisis Report L-r: Alice Rivlin, Joe Minarik, Norman Ornstein, and Thomas E. Mann. What will happen if the United States continues to ignore... read more
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Webinar Discusses Release of New CED Health Care Report
On June 30, 2010 Alain C. Enthoven, Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public & Private Management Stanford University and Joseph J. Minarik, CED's Senior Vice... read more
 
CED, the Committee for Economic Development is an independent, nonpartisan organization for business and education leaders dedicated to policy research on the major economic and social issues of our time and the implementation of its recommendations by the public and private sectors.