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The official national debt of the United States is close to $9.6 trillion, but when the cost of unfunded entitlement programs like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid are included, the total is a staggering $53 trillion: what our government owes to whom and why we should care.
David Walker, CEO, Peter G Peterson Foundation and former U.S. Comptroller General
Roberton Williams, principal research associate, the Tax Policy Center, a joint venture of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution.
Stephen Moore, member of the Wall Street Journal's editorial board and former President of the Club for Growth
Mary Ellen Geist gave up a great career to return home to help her mother care for her ailing father. She writes about the often overlooked but vital role husbands and wives, daughters and sons provide for loved ones battling Alzheimer's Disease.
Mary Ellen Geist, most recently the afternoon anchor at WCBS radio in New York.
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