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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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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.
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CBO describes federal housing assistance to low-income households and how it has changed since 2000, provides information about the households that receive assistance, and assesses options for altering that assistance.
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The President’s policies would make U.S. output larger over the next decade than it would be under current law—mostly by changing immigration laws. Such economic effects would feed back into the budget in ways that would reduce deficits.
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Letter to the Honorable Ron Johnson regarding CBO’s analyses of the long-term budget outlook and the agency’s work on policy options that would address long-term fiscal imbalances.
- Working Paper
CBO analyzed a variety of options for federal insurance against the risk of terrorism before the program was reauthorized in January 2015. This paper examines in more detail some options that might be considered in the future.
- Report
CBO projects the President’s budget would result in deficits totaling $6.0 trillion between 2016 and 2025, $1.2 trillion less than under CBO’s current-law baseline. By 2025, debt would total about $1 trillion less than in CBO’s baseline.
- Data and Technical Information
Correction: On March 13, 2015, CBO reposted this file; the updated spreadsheet includes small corrections to Table 4.
- Blog Post
On Friday, March 6, CBO will release its updated 10-year baseline projections of federal spending, revenues, and budget deficits reflecting new information obtained since the January release of the Budget and Economic Outlook: 2015 to 2025.
- Data and Technical Information
The table, Medicare’s Payment to Physicians: the Budgetary Effects of Alternative Policies, includes estimates for several replacement and short-term alternatives to the current rules for setting Medicare’s payment rates for physicians’ services.