Business-led Group Focuses on America's Fiscal Health WASHINGTON, June 22, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Committee for Economic Development (CED) has named Roger W. Ferguson, Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer of financial services firm, TIAA-CREF, as a new co-chair. Mr.

WASHINGTON, June 13, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Diane Lim Rogers, chief economist for The Concord Coalition, will focus on the federal budget, tax policy and deficit reduction in a new column for the weekly magazine Tax Notes. The column, "Taxes for a Civilized Society," will also appear in Tax Notes Today, a daily online publication.

WASHINGTON, May 13, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Concord Coalition said that today's release of the annual Social Security and Medicare Trustees Report is a timely reminder of how important cost-saving reform of these two vital programs is to the nation's fiscal outlook.

WASHINGTON, March 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Concord Coalition today released a new Issue Brief examining the difficulty Paul Ryan and the House Budget Committee will have writing a budget resolution that shows improvement in the deficit while also sticking to the Republican Party's position that the deficit is strictly a spending problem, and one that can be attacked primarily by focusing on non-defense discretionary spending.

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