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Some federal policies involve short-term expenditures that result in economic and budgetary effects far in the future. CBO has been building analytic capacity to consider a dynamic framework for policies that would have long-term effects.
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To enhance its work for the Congress, CBO is looking for new research on factors that affect the use of anti-obesity medications and the impact of that use on other health care spending.
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To enhance its work for the Congress, CBO is looking for new research on how borrowers would respond to changes in repayment plans for student loans, and how sponsors of pension plans would respond to changes in government pension insurance.
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This week, four analysts from CBO's Health Analysis Division are presenting their work at the 12th Annual Conference of the American Society of Health Economists ("ASHEcon") in St. Louis, Missouri.
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CBO released updated projections of health insurance coverage for people under age 65 in the journal Health Affairs.
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This week, five analysts from CBO's Health Analysis Division are presenting their work at the 11th Annual Conference of the American Society of Health Economists ("ASHEcon") in Austin, Texas.
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CBO updated its interactive tool that allows users to design options for increasing the minimum wage and to examine how they would affect earnings, employment, family income, and poverty.
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The report will contain CBO’s latest baseline budget projections, which will be based on the economic projections that the agency released in July and will incorporate legislation enacted through August 4.
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This tool demonstrates the effects of policies that would increase the federal minimum wage. Users can also create custom policy options to examine how different approaches to changing the minimum wage would affect earnings, employment, family income, and poverty.
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In our extended baseline projections in The 2019 Long-Term Budget Outlook, budget deficits drive federal debt held by the public to unprecedented levels.