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The Federal Pell Grant Program was created to improve the access of low-income students to postsecondary education. CBO analyst Nabeel Alsalam discusses spending on the program and possible policy changes.
- Presentation
Presentation by Doug Elmendorf, CBO Director, to the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School
- Blog Post
Director Doug Elmendorf discusses why federal health care spending is growing rapidly and what changes in policy could slow that growth.
- Report
CBO periodically issues a compendium of options—this installment presents more than 100—to inform lawmakers about the budgetary effects of ways to reduce the deficit.
- Report
CBO analyzes the distribution of most federal spending—including transfers such as Social Security benefits—and almost all federal revenues among U.S. households in 2006. Results are provided by type of household and by income group.
- Cost Estimate
As Introduced on September 27, 2013
- Report
Testimony before the Committee on the Budget, U.S. House of Representatives.
- Presentation
Director Doug Elmendorf’s slides from his press briefing on The 2013 Long-Term Budget Outlook
- Blog Post
Medicaid is a joint federal-state program with an average enrollment of about 57 million people this year. In 2012, federal spending for Medicaid was $251 billion, of which $223 billion covered benefits for enrollees.
- Blog Post
Although spending for health care in the United States has grown more slowly in recent years than it had previously, high and rising levels of such spending continue to pose a challenge for Medicare, Medicaid, and other government programs.