Isabel Sawhill focuses on domestic poverty and federal fiscal policy for the Brookings Institution, where she is a senior fellow in Economic Studies. She says she isn't so concerned about deficits during recessionary periods, but rather the long term deficit. We're heading for massive federal deficit problems, and the long term deficit problem is being "driven by the aging of the population and health care costs." And she says the time to worry about that is now:
Posted
04-21-2009 10:11 AM
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Graham Griffith