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- Cost Estimate
As transmitted to CBO on March 13, 2014
- Report
Director Doug Elmendorf testified on the effects of raising the minimum wage, noting that such an increase would boost family income for many low-wage workers but that some jobs for low-wage workers would probably be eliminated.
- Blog Post
Last week, Director Doug Elmendorf participated in two panels at the American Enterprise Institute’s World Forum. Today’s post reviews his talk about health care policy; tomorrow’s post will summarize his comments about immigration policy.
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on December 19, 2013
- Blog Post
CBO’s updated estimates of the effects of the Affordable Care Act’s insurance coverage provisions, which were published in the agency’s recent report on the budget and economic outlook, do not differ much from those released in May 2013.
- Blog Post
Director Doug Elmendorf spoke yesterday about the main factors that are causing federal health care spending to grow much faster than the economy. He also summarized CBO’s analysis of a wide range of approaches to address that growth.
- Presentation
Presentation by Doug Elmendorf, CBO Director, at Williams College
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on September 28, 2013
- Report
In calendar year 2013, ARRA raised real GDP by between 0.1 percent and 0.4 percent and increased the number of full-time-equivalent jobs by 0.1 million to 0.5 million compared with what would have occurred otherwise, CBO estimates.
- Report
Raising the minimum wage would increase family income for many low-wage workers, moving some of them out of poverty. But some jobs for low-wage workers would probably be eliminated and the income of those workers would fall substantially.