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This brief describes the economic conditions and budgeting practices that can lead to significant budgetary challenges--often termed fiscal stress--at the local level.
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This document presents data through 2009 on permanent and temporary admissions of foreign nationals to the United States, the number and types of visas issued, the naturalization of residents, and enforcement of immigration laws.
- Blog Post
Today CBO released an update to its February 2006 paper Immigration Policy in the United States. The publication is a collection of tables and figures with descriptive text (shown below). The update presents data through 2009 and makes comparisons with 2004, the most recent year for which most data were reported in the earlier paper.
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In fiscal year 2007 total public spending for transportation and water infrastructure was $356 billion, or 2.4 percent of the nation’s economic output as measured by its gross domestic product.
- Blog Post
The nations transportation and water infrastructureits highways, airports, water supply systems, wastewater treatment plants, and other facilitiesplays a vital role in the economy. Private commercial activities and the daily lives of individuals depend on that physical infrastructure, which is provided by all levels of government in the United States.
- Blog Post
The federal governmentthrough laws and regulationssometimes requires state, local, and tribal governments and various entities in the private sector to expend resources to achieve national goals. In 1995, the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act (UMRA) became law, aimed at ensuring that, during the legislative process, the Congress receives information about such proposed requirements, known as federal mandates, before enacting a piece of legislation. UMRA defines a legislative provision as a mandate if that provision, when enacted, would
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A Review of CBO's Activities in 2009 Under the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act
- Report
This report presents a more detailed analysis of the proposals contained in the President’s budget request for fiscal year 2011 than the preliminary analysis that CBO released on March 5, 2010.
- Blog Post
This afternoon CBO released a report presenting its analysis of the budgetary proposals contained in the President’s budget request for fiscal year 2011. This report provides more detail than the preliminary analysis that CBO released on March 5, which was discussed in a blog entry that same day. Our latest report differs slightly from the earlier one because it incorporates the impact of some legislation that has recently been enacted.
- Data and Technical Information
These spreadsheets reflect CBO's estimates, assumptions, and projections at the time the associated publication was released; that is, the spreadsheets are not continuously updated.