Sean Flynn, associate professor of economics at Scripps College, offers warnings on how current plans for federal spending as approved by the U.S. Congress can have dire long–term future effects on education, health care, and Social Security benefits, in a recent article published in U.S.News & World Report. Flynn and other economists provide perspective as the plans for the U.S. budget unfold and help explain both near- and long-term impacts of the country’s soaring deficits and adjustments to spur economic growth.
