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What Accounts for the Slow Growth of the Economy After the Recession? - Infographic
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In its fiscal year 2013 budget request, the Department of Defense (DoD) requested about $150 billion to fund the pay and benefits of current and retired members of the military. That amount is more than one-quarter of DoD’s total base budget request (the request for all funding other than for military operations in Afghanistan and related activities).
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CBO regularly issues reports on the state of the budget and the economy, and today CBO released a study, What Accounts for the Slow Growth of the Economy After the Recession?, with an accompanying infographic providing background information that helps to explain the economic projections included in those reports.
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During the three years following the recession in 2008 and 2009, the economy’s output grew at less than half the rate seen, on average, during other economic recoveries in the United States since the end of World War II.
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As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on September 13, 2012
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Pay-As-You-Go Effects for S. 3525, as Introduced on September 12, 2012
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Offsetting a Carbon Tax’s Costs on Low-Income Households
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As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on July 25, 2012
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As ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on September 20, 2012 H.R. 1063 would modify the process through which the Medicare program is reimbursed when another payer (for example, a liability insurer) is responsible for a beneficiary’s medical costs. In general, the provisions of H.R. 1063 would make it easier for other payers to repay Medicare, thus reducing program costs.
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Significant tax increases and spending cuts are slated to take effect in January 2013, sharply reducing the federal budget deficit and causing, by CBO’s estimates, a decline in the nation’s economic output and an increase in unemployment. What would be the economic effects of eliminating various components of that fiscal tightening—or what some term the fiscal cliff?