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CBO analyzes 36 policy options commonly proposed by policymakers and analysts. Most of them would improve Social Security’s long-term finances, but only a few would significantly postpone the combined trust funds’ exhaustion date.
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In 2016, low- and moderate-income workers will face an effective marginal tax rate of 31 percent, on average. Federal individual income and payroll taxes will be the main contributors.
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on October 7, 2015
- Presentation
Presentation by CBO analyst Elizabeth Cove Delisle, with Natalie Tawil, to the Council of Large Public Housing Authorities, describing federal housing assistance to low-income households and the characteristics of households receiving it.
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Since 1990, real spending for child nutrition programs more than doubled—to $20 billion in 2014. CBO expects that increases in food prices and demographic changes will cause spending to rise further in the future.
- Cost Estimate
H.R. 719, as passed by the House on September 24, 2015 with a further amendment (SA 2689, the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2016)
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Financial Services on July 29, 2015
- Report
CBO describes federal housing assistance to low-income households and how it has changed since 2000, provides information about the households that receive assistance, and assesses options for altering that assistance.
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship on June 3, 2015
- Report
The Senate Budget Committee convened a hearing in June at which Director Keith Hall testified about the long-term budget outlook. Committee members submitted further questions for the record, and this document provides CBO’s answers.