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- Report
CBO periodically issues a volume of options—this year’s installment presents 121—that would decrease federal spending or increase federal revenues. CBO’s website allows users to filter options by topic, date, and other categories.
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on November 29, 2018
- Presentation
Presentation by Justin Humphrey, an analyst in CBO’s Budget Analysis Division, at the Committee for Education Funding.
- Report
In this primer, CBO discusses the methodological differences between the FCRA and fair-value approaches and how those differences affect estimates of the cost of federal credit programs.
- Cost Estimate
As reported by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on May 7, 2018
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on June 27, 2018
- Report
Using FCRA procedures, CBO estimates that new loans and loan guarantees issued in 2019 would result in savings of $37.4 billion. But using fair-value procedures, CBO estimates that they would have a lifetime cost of $37.9 billion.
- Interactive
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.
- Report
CBO has developed “rules of thumb” that show how changes in four key economic variables might affect revenues, outlays, and deficits. An interactive workbook allows users to see the budgetary effects of their own alternative scenarios.
- Report
In 2017, the government financed roughly $100 billion in student loans and provided about $30 billion in grants and $30 billion in tax preferences. This report examines the impact of such aid and a number of approaches to changing it.