The Federal Budget in 2019: An Infographic

The federal deficit in 2019 was $984 billion, equal to 4.6 percent of gross domestic product. Learn more about the deficit with a new interactive version of the infographic.

Workbook for How Changes in Economic Conditions Might Affect the Federal Budget, February 2020

This workbook allows users to enter an alternative scenario for productivity growth, labor force growth, inflation, or interest rates and see estimates of revenues, several types of spending, and deficits under those scenarios.

CBO’s Waterfall Model for Projecting Discretionary Spending, January 2020

CBO’s new interactive tool allows users to simulate the agency’s process for projecting discretionary budget authority and outlays for different types of spending over the course of 10 years.

How Increasing the Federal Minimum Wage Could Affect Employment and Family Income

This interactive tool allows users to explore how various policies to increase the federal minimum wage would affect earnings, employment, family income, and poverty.

Financial Regulation and the Federal Budget

To explore how changes to financial regulation might affect the federal budget, CBO analyzed three illustrative policies. The agency found that the policies’ largest budgetary effects would stem from macroeconomic feedback. Watch the narrated presentation.

The Distribution of Household Income, 2016

In 2016, average household income before accounting for means-tested transfers and federal taxes was $21,000 for the lowest quintile and $291,000 for the highest quintile. After transfers and taxes, those averages were $35,000 and $214,000.

The Federal Budget in 2018: An Infographic

The federal deficit in 2018 was $779 billion, equal to 3.9 percent of gross domestic product. Learn more about the deficit with a new interactive version of the infographic.

How Changing Social Security Could Affect Beneficiaries and the System's Finances

This interactive tool lets the user explore seven policy options that could be used to improve the finances of the Social Security program and delay the exhaustion of its trust funds.

Social Security Replacement Rates and Other Benefit Measures: An In-Depth Analysis

This report and the accompanying interactive tool present CBO’s analysis of whether Social Security benefits enable retired workers to meet their basic needs and the extent to which benefits replace preretirement earnings.

CBO’s Waterfall Model for Projecting Discretionary Spending, January 2019

CBO’s new interactive tool allows users to simulate the agency’s process for projecting discretionary budget authority and outlays for different types of spending over the course of 10 years.