Lecture on Federal Budget, April 17

Corey Davison, Director of Government Affairs of the Concord Coalition, an organization that advocates a balanced federal budget, will give several talks in Galesburg on Tuesday, April 17, including one on the Knox campus.

Davison will give a talk at 4:00 p.m., April 17, in the Round Room, Ford Center for the Fine Arts at Knox College, co-sponsored with the Knox College Department of Economics. Earlier in the day, he will speak at 11 a.m. in the Crist Student Center at Carl Sandburg College. Both campus talks are free and open to the public.

While in Galesburg, Davison also will speak to a meeting of the Sunrise Rotary Club.

The events are part of the Concord Coalition's "Fiscal Wake Up Tour," a national initiative to promote discussion of the present and future effects of the federal budget. The coalition, chaired by two former United States Senators -- Republican Warren Rudman of New Hampshire and Democrat Bob Kerrey of Nebraska -- has been featured recently on "60 Minutes" and in other national publications.

A former Congressional staffer whose father, Mike Davison, was born in Galesburg, Corey Davison oversees the Concord Coalition's grassroots chapters, events, and activities in Illinois and 13 other states. He also works with Members of Congress and other national policy organizations on issues including the federal budget, Social Security, and Medicare.

The Concord Coalition promotes discussion of national fiscal challenges, and how community leaders and area citizens can help promote fiscally responsible measures to address budget priorities and budget deficits.
 
"The Concord Coalition calls for generationally responsible fiscal policy and economic stewardship," Davison explained in a news release. "We challenge national office holders to make the tough political choices required to balance the federal budget and keep it balanced over the long term."