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CBO Still Unsure Whether Recent Health Care Slowdown Means Lower Long-Term Growth
Update: The second graph has been corrected to show the correct year for each line. It is no secret that the growth of federal health care spending is...
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What Do High Debt Levels Do To Our Economy?
Politicians and economists have long talked about the negative effects of an accumulating national debt, but cannot always quantify their position...
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What Happened to the Alternative Fiscal Scenario?
Update: CBO has now released its official Alternative Fiscal Scenario estimates (tab 6 of the Excel). They find that debt reaches 165 percent of GDP...
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CBO Releases Long-Term Budget Outlook
It's here — CBO has released its updated long-term baseline. Since December, many commentators have attempted to see where we stand since the fiscal...
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CRFB's Breakdown of the Long-Term Outlook
CBO's Long-Term Budget Outlook is a sizeable 126-page document with tons of facts and figures, and an accompanying spreadsheet with even more data. In...
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SGR Bill a Good Start but More Can Be Done for Less
The Congressional Budget Office, on Friday, estimated that the Energy & Commerce Committee’s (E&C) bill to permanently replace the flawed Sustainable...
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Budget Director: We Still Have a Long-Term Debt Problem
Reading the news these days, you might think our debt problem has been solved: the federal deficit has been revised downward and is falling to its...
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It's Official: Budget Projections Have Changed
Last month after the Bureau of Economic Analysis revised their GDP numbers going back to 1929, we decided to take the intiative and project what the...
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CBO Takes a Look at the Pell Grant Program
Today, the Congressional Budget Office released a new report on Pell Grants which details the program and recent changes made to it, shows options to...
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CBO Dissects the Medicare Spending Growth Slowdown
The slowdown in health care spending growth in recent years has been a hotly debated topic, as experts try to figure out the source of the slowdown...