Facing Up Around The 50 States

My co-author Jean Johnson and I are glad to see this wire story about the NYC National Debt Clock running out of digits, because we were afraid it would pass without comment, given the global financial crisis. In fact, we said as much in our Huffington Post blog posting, National Debt Passes $10 Trillion, No One Notices. Our colleague Andrew Yarrow has also written two provocative pieces on Toward a new American consensus and Why liberals should care about deficits.

One question, among the many swirling around the global financial crisis, is how the philanthropic world should respond. Jean and I offered some possible answers in "Where Does The Money Go?" a PowerPoint presentation on the federal budget crisis at the Northwest Philanthropy Conference.

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