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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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Kim Cawley, Chief of CBO’s Natural and Physical Resources Cost Estimates Unit, testifies on the Nuclear Waste Policy Act before the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, Committee on Energy and Commerce, U.S. House of Representatives.
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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.
- Report
In fiscal year 2015, the federal government supported the development, production, and use of fuels and energy technologies through tax preferences totaling $15.8 billion and spending by the Department of Energy totaling $5.4 billion.
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology on October 8. 2015
- Cost Estimate
As reported by the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship on October 7, 2015
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on October 7, 2015
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As ordered reported by the House Committee on Homeland Security on September 30, 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.
- Report
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.