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New Report Offers Options for Stabilizing National Debt


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Co-Chairs Rudolph Penner and John Palmer. Photo by Patricia Pooladi courtesy National Academy of Sciences.

January 13, 2010 -- A new joint report from the National Research Council and the National Academy of Public Administration offers U.S. leaders ways to address the nation's fiscal problems and confront its rapidly growing debt -- a burden that if unchecked will inevitably limit the nation's future wealth and risk a disruptive fiscal crisis that could lead to a severe recession.