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This CBO brief describes, in broad terms, the array of federal activities that support housing and the expansion of particular programs.
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The federal government supports infrastructure investment in a variety of ways. It spends money directly, makes grants to state and local governments for their capital spending and, through the tax system, subsidizes the borrowing of both of those levels of government as well as certain private entities to finance infrastructure projects.
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Letter to the Honorable George Miller
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Letter to the Honorable John Kline
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Today CBO released a letter on the changes in Medicare Part D premiums that would result from certain provisions of H.R. 3200, Americas Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009, as introduced on July 14. According to CBOs estimates, enacting those changes would lead to an average increase in premiums for Part D beneficiaries of about 5 percent in 2011, rising to about 20 percent in 2019.
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CBO's Long-Term Projections for Social Security: 2009 Update
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Today, CBO released anupdate of its long-term Social Security projections.The projections are qualitatively similar to those in previous CBO reports: Social Securitys annual revenues currently exceed its annual outlays, but as the baby-boom generation continues to age, growth in the number of Social Security beneficiaries will pick up, and absent legislative changes, outlays will increase much faster than revenues.
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Letter to the Honorable Judd Gregg
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Today CBO released a letter that contains an estimate of the change in federal costs, adjusted for the cost of market risk, that might result from enactment of the Presidents proposal to prohibit new federal guarantees of student loans and to replace those guarantees with direct loans made by the Department of Education.