Selected CBO Publications Related to Health Care Legislation, 2009-2010December 22, 2010 |
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal Role in the Secondary Mortgage MarketDecember 22, 2010Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs)—privately owned financial institutions that were chartered by the Congress four decades ago to fulfill a public mission: to provide a stable source of funding for residential mortgages across the country, including loans on housing for low- and moderate-income families.
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Federal Debt and Interest CostsDecember 14, 2010 |
Evaluating Limits on Markets for Emissions AllowancesDecember 13, 2010Congress recently considered creating a nationwide cap-and-trade program that would limit emissions of greenhouse gases below the levels projected under current law and would allow trading of rights, or allowances, to produce those emissions. The ability to buy and sell allowances would reduce the cost to the economy of meeting the cap by letting market forces determine where, how, and when the associated cuts in emissions would be made.
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Economic Impacts of Waiting to Resolve the Long-Term Budget ImbalanceDecember 10, 2010Under current policies, the aging of the U.S. population and increases in health care costs will almost certainly push up federal spending significantly in coming decades relative to the size of the economy. Without changes in policy, spending on the government’s major mandatory health care programs as well as on Social Security will increase from the present level of roughly 10 percent of the nation’s output, or gross domestic product (GDP), to about 16 percent over the next 25 years.
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Fiscal Stress Faced by Local GovernmentsDecember 9, 2010 |
The Federal Deficit So Far This YearDecember 7, 2010 |
Immigration Policy in the United States: An UpdateDecember 3, 2010Today CBO released an update to its February 2006 paper Immigration Policy in the United States. The publication is a collection of tables and figures with descriptive text (shown below). The update presents data through 2009 and makes comparisons with 2004, the most recent year for which most data were reported in the earlier paper.
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CBO Publications on Trends in Federal Revenues and Tax PolicyDecember 3, 2010In addition to the information provided in my testimony yesterday, you can find further information on trends in federal revenues and how changes to U.S.
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Trends in Federal Tax Revenues and RatesDecember 2, 2010 |
