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This morning I testified before the Senate Budget Committee on policies to promote economic growth and employment in 2012 and 2013.
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Testimony before the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, U.S. Congress
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Estimates of discretionary budget authority and outlays for fiscal year 2011.
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Estimates of discretionary budget authority and outlays for fiscal year 2011.
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Last week CBO released its annual summer update of its budget and economic outlook.
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In 2009, about 39 million foreign-born people lived in the United States, making up more than 12 percent of the U.S. populationthe largest share since 1920. Naturalized citizens (foreign-born people who have fulfilled the requirements of U.S. citizenship) accounted for about 17 million of the total. Noncitizens (foreign-born people authorized to live and work in the United States either temporarily or permanently and people who are not authorized to live or work in the United States) accounted for about 22 million of the total.
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This document is the latest in CBO's series on immigration.
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In coming decades, one development that could have short- or longer-term consequences for the budget and the economy is expected to be a slower rate of growth of the labor force relative to its average over the past few decades.
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Each year CBO examines many developments that could have short- or longer-term consequences for the budget and the economy. During the decades to come, one such development is expected to be a slower rate of growth of the labor force relative to the average growth rate of the past few decades. That slowdown is anticipated to occur primarily because of the aging and retirement of large numbers of baby boomers and because women’s participation in the labor force has leveled off since the late 1990s after having risen substantially throughout the three decades before that.
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