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To enhance its work for the Congress, CBO is looking for new research that illuminates the factors driving trends in productivity growth and interest rates on Treasury securities, and the effects of fiscal policy on broad economic outcomes.
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To enhance its work for the Congress, CBO is looking for new research that illuminates the effects of immigration on productivity and the factors that cause them to vary, and the effects of changes in federal funding for child care.
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CBO is engaged in many efforts to foster transparency, such as providing information to help people understand the federal budget process and the agency’s role in it. This week, CBO released three more primers as part of those efforts.
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CBO is engaged in many efforts aimed at fostering transparency, such as providing additional information to help people understand the federal budget process and the agency’s role in that process. Today, CBO is publishing two updated budget primers (first released in 2018) as part of those efforts:
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CBO congratulates the Australian Parliamentary Budget Office on its 10th anniversary and highlights the role of independent fiscal institutions.
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CBO’s Director, Phillip Swagel, discusses the agency’s budget and economic analysis during the pandemic.
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CBO updated its interactive tool that allows users to design options for increasing the minimum wage and to examine how they would affect earnings, employment, family income, and poverty.
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CBO discusses its preliminary projections of key economic variables and its preliminary assessments of federal budget deficits and debt through 2021. The amounts include the effects of legislation enacted in response to the pandemic.
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As a result of the continued disruption of commerce stemming from the coronavirus pandemic, CBO expects the unemployment rate to exceed 10 percent as gross domestic product declines during the second quarter.
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This tool demonstrates the effects of policies that would increase the federal minimum wage. Users can also create custom policy options to examine how different approaches to changing the minimum wage would affect earnings, employment, family income, and poverty.