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Saving Our Future Requires Tough Choices Today

GAO-08-241CG Published: Oct 29, 2007. Publicly Released: Oct 29, 2007.
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This is a Comptroller General Presentation delivered to the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, in Baltimore, MD, on October 29, 2007. Major topics of this presentation include: federal spending for mandatory and discretionary programs, the growing fiscal burden, and state and local governments' increasing fiscal challenges.

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Balanced budgetsBudget administrationBudget authorityBudget controllabilityBudget deficitDeficit reductionEconomic analysisEconomic growthEconomic policiesFinancial analysisFinancial managementFiscal policiesIntergovernmental fiscal relationsPolicy evaluation