Effects on CBO’s Baseline of the Increase in Immigration Among Other Foreign Nationals
Presentation
Presentation by Jaeger Nelson, Chief of CBO’s Fiscal Studies Unit, at the 72nd Annual Economic Outlook Conference of the University of Michigan’s Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics.
The number of people entering the United States has increased sharply in recent years. In CBO’s projection, that increase in immigration boosts economic growth and reduces the size of the budget deficit over the 2024–2034 projection period.
This presentation describes the demographic characteristics of the people in the immigration surge and the effects of the surge on CBO’s projection of the following:
