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Wake-Up Tour
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, March 29, 2007 Comptroller General of the United States Leads Fiscal Wake-Up Tour to Syracuse April 4
Maxwell School of Syracuse University to host forum on the nation’s budget problems, as featured recently on CBS's "60 Minutes" On Wednesday, April 4, the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University will host an evening forum featuring the Fiscal Wake-Up Tour, a joint public engagement initiative of the Concord Coalition (a nonpartisan grassroots organization), the Brookings Institution, and the Heritage Foundation. Five panel experts will offer brief, informative presentations about various aspects of the nation’s budgetary challenges, followed by a lengthy Q&A period with the audience. The event will be from 7-9 p.m. in Maxwell Auditorium on the SU campus. The public is invited to attend and paid parking is available in the Irving Garage. The tour has already visited more than 20 major cities across the country, helping to educate and focus attention on the nation’s daunting long-term fiscal challenges by cutting through the usual partisan rhetoric and stimulating a more realistic public dialogue. The Wake-Up Tour group coming to Syracuse will be led by David Walker, Comptroller General of the United States, and Robert Bixby, executive director of the Concord Coalition. They will be joined by two Washington think-tank experts: Isabel Sawhill of the Brookings Institution and Alison Fraser of the Heritage Foundation. John L. Palmer, public trustee for the Social Security and Medicare programs and dean emeritus of the Maxwell School, will round out the panel. "The retirement of the baby boom generation,
along with the continued rapid rise in health care costs will soon begin to put
enormous pressure on the federal budget," says Palmer. "It’s the fiscal
equivalent of global warming. The longer we delay addressing this problem, the
more detrimental will be the consequences. The public needs to be better
informed and to demand timely political action."
# # # The Maxwell School of Syracuse University is the premier academic institution in the United States committed to scholarship, civic leadership, and education in public and international affairs. Maxwell is home to Syracuse University’s social science departments and to numerous nationally recognized multidisciplinary graduate programs in public policy, international studies, social policy, and conflict resolution. Maxwell's graduate program in public administration -- the first of its kind in the nation -- is ranked consistently the leading graduate public affairs program in the country. The S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University is one of the nation's premiere schools of mass communication. Newhouse embraces virtually every known form of information dissemination from print journalism to broadcast journalism to online communication and from advertising and public relations to photography and film. Among the 60+ faculty members are international experts in such fields as First Amendment law, the effects of television on children, the impact of television on popular culture, and the effectiveness of advertising. Newhouse students are among the best in the nation, having secured a place in the class through a highly competitive admissions process..
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