Curious about the fiscal health of the US? Come hear Economist Romina Boccia demystify some of the common misconceptions surrounding government debt. 

Romina Boccia is director of budget and entitlement policy at the Cato Institute, where she specializes in federal spending, budget process, economic implications of rising debt, and Social Security and Medicare reform. She’s the principal author behind the Debt Dispatch, the no.1 fiscal newsletter read by members of Congress. Boccia was previously director of the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget at the Heritage Foundation, where she was the principal author of the organization’s flagship budget plan, Blueprint for Balance. She also contributed chapters to the book A Fiscal Cliff: New Perspectives on the US Federal Debt Crisis and the peer-reviewed publication Homo Oeconomicus: Journal of Behavioral and Institutional Economics. Her forthcoming book, co-authored with Ivane Nachkebia, Reimagining Social Security: Global Lessons for Retirement Policy Changes, will be published by Cato in August of 2025.

Don't miss this breakdown of the "fiscal report card" of the US! 

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