Just the Facts
The First Step in Building a National Strategic Agenda for America
Published on 30. April 2020
150 pages
978-1-62681-399-1 (ISBN)
Description
A bipartisan foundation's
"answer for how we unite this country and put it back on the path to prosperity and progress" (Governor Jon M. Huntsman, Jr.).
Everyone knows our government is broken. But both our government and our country can be fixed if enough people come together to demand a new politics of problem solving.
That's what the No Labels Foundation has believed since it first launched in 2010. An organization of solution-focused leaders both Republican and Democratic, it offers citizens Just the Facts-a framework from which to build a path to tackling America's toughest challenges. Clarifying the essential facts, trends, and assumptions that need to serve as the foundation for discussion of critical policy issues such as jobs, the budget, Social Security and Medicare, and energy, it's essential reading for anyone who wants to build a better America.
Everyone knows our government is broken. But both our government and our country can be fixed if enough people come together to demand a new politics of problem solving.
That's what the No Labels Foundation has believed since it first launched in 2010. An organization of solution-focused leaders both Republican and Democratic, it offers citizens Just the Facts-a framework from which to build a path to tackling America's toughest challenges. Clarifying the essential facts, trends, and assumptions that need to serve as the foundation for discussion of critical policy issues such as jobs, the budget, Social Security and Medicare, and energy, it's essential reading for anyone who wants to build a better America.
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Content
- Intro
- Just the Facts
- Copyright
- Contents
- No Labels' National Strategic Agenda
- Goal #1: Create 25 Million New Jobs Over the Next 10 Years
- The Key to Innovation, Prosperity, and the Future
- Tax and Regulatory Reform To Spur Investment in Infrastructure
- Immigration Reform
- Education and Training: Preparing the Workforce For the Jobs of Today and Tomorrow
- Stoking America's Entrepreneurial Fire
- Opportunities in Health-Care Reform
- Tying It All Together
- Goal #2: Balance the Federal Budget by 2030
- Balancing the Budget: Just the Facts
- The Problem: America Is Spending Beyond Its Means
- The Stakes: The Downside of a Busted Budget
- How We Got Here
- The Right Way and Wrong Way To Balance a Budget
- IDEAS: Getting America's Budget in Balance
- It All Begins and Ends with the Budget
- Goal #3: Secure Social Security and Medicare for Another 75 Years
- Social Security: Just the Facts
- Medicare: Just the Facts
- The Problem: The Lifeline for American Seniors Is Fraying
- The Stakes: A Problem That Can't Be Ignored
- Social Security: How We Got Here
- IDEAS: Options for Making Social Security Truly Secure
- Medicare: Where We've Been
- IDEAS: Options for Reining in Costs and Maintaining High-Quality Care
- Keeping Medicare and Social Security Strong and Solvent
- Goal #4: Make America Energy Secure by 2024
- American Energy Security: Just the Facts
- American Energy Independence: The Wrong Goal All Along?
- American Energy Use: Just the Facts-and a Few Reality Checks on Our Choices
- What Is Government's Role in Our Energy System?
- IDEAS: Achieving American Energy Security by 2024
- More Energy Security Equals More Economic and National Security
- Process Reform
- Fixing Congress
- Fixing the Federal Bureaucracy
- A Better Congress. A Better Government. A Better Chance To Achieve the National Strategic Agenda
- Our Call to Action: Making the National Strategic Agenda a Reality
- Acknowledgments
- Connect with No Labels
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