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- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Ways and Means on September 28, 2023
- Presentation
CBO regularly analyzes the distribution of income in the United States and how it has changed over time. This slide deck presents the distributions of household income, means-tested transfers, and federal taxes between 1979 and 2020.
- Report
In 2020, the coronavirus pandemic and the ensuing federal response had significant effects on the distribution of household income. Income inequality before transfers and taxes increased, but inequality after transfers and taxes decreased.
- Cost Estimate
As reported by the Senate Committee on Finance on October 19, 2023
- Working Paper
On a present-value basis, CBO estimates that long-term fiscal effects of Medicaid spending on children could offset half or more of the program’s initial outlays, depending on sets of reasonable parameter values.
- Report
Chad Shirley, a principal analyst at CBO, testifies on the status of the Highway Trust Fund before the House Transportation Committee’s Highway and Transit Subcommittee.
- Presentation
CBO describes how it projects corporate income tax revenues, focusing on how it maps economic projections of corporate profits to projections of the corporate income tax base.
- Report
In 2023, federal subsidies for health insurance are estimated to be $1.8 trillion, or 7.0 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). In CBO and JCT’s projections, those net subsidies reach $3.3 trillion, or 8.3 percent of GDP, in 2033.
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce on September 14, 2023
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce on September 14, 2023