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What Happened to the Alternative Fiscal Scenario?
Read moreUpdate: 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
Read moreIt'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
Read moreCBO'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
Read moreThe 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
Read moreReading 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
Read moreLast 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
Read moreToday, 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
Read moreThe 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...
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CBO Updates Their Historical Budget Data
Read moreNearly two weeks ago, the Bureau of Economic Analysis released its GDP report with a $560 billion upward revision for 2012. As we explained at the...
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The Cost of Delay: Employer Mandate Edition
Read moreEarly this month, the Obama Administration announced that it would delay enforcement of the employer mandate penalty in the Affordable Care Act for...