their home. However,concerns over the deficit threaten to derail efforts to turn around the economy and spur employment …. This report attempts to correct many of the misperceptions about the deficit that have brought the issue to the center of … downturn, the tactics of the deficit hawks distract the public and policy makers from the policies necessary to bring the …

Many proponents of conservative fiscal policies talk of the budget deficit as being a matter of intergenerational … equality. However, this paper shows the younger generations (and those yet to be born) will contribute more to the deficit than … the driving force behind the deficit is our broken health care system and that this should be the focus of the debate. …

deficit and national debt. This discussion is unfortunate both because there is no reason for people to be concerned about the … deficit at present, and more importantly, because it discourages action on the unemployment crisis that is devastating the …