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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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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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The opening statement of Joseph Kile, CBO’s Director of Microeconomic Analysis, on the long-term solvency of the Highway Trust Fund before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.
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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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CBO released four products that, in combination, explain how the agency uses its new health insurance simulation model, HISIM2, to generate estimates of health insurance coverage and premiums for people under age 65.
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Last Monday, CBO released The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2018 to 2028. This week, CBO is publishing daily blog posts to share key excerpts from the report, and today’s post is about the agency’s projections of federal spending.
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Last year CBO launched an online tool that allows users to search for intergovernmental and private-sector mandates that the agency has identified in bills and public laws. Data for calendar year 2016 are now available.