Presentation by Julie Topoleski, CBO’s Director of Labor, Income Security, and Long-Term Analysis, at the 16th Annual Meeting of the OECD Working Party of Parliamentary Budget Officials and Independent Fiscal Institutions.
Immigration is one of many demographic factors underlying CBO’s baseline projections. This presentation provides a brief overview of the agency’s immigration projections and the challenges in developing them. It also discusses some of the ways that immigration can affect the federal budget and the economy.