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CBO had a panel of technical reviewers from 2018 to 2020 to provide feedback during the initial development of the second generation of its health insurance simulation model, which was first used in the development of the spring 2019 baseline projections. CBO uses its health insurance model to generate estimates of health insurance coverage and premiums for the population under age 65 and as part of a process to analyze proposed changes in policies that affect health insurance coverage.
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This site allows you to apply online for jobs at CBO. In addition to a résumé, which must be submitted for you to be considered for any position, other materials may be requested for each job. We encourage you to add all materials requested as they will assist in thoroughly evaluating your qualifications.
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CBO takes a number of steps to ensure that all of its work is objective, impartial, and nonpartisan—the importance of which was emphasized by CBO’s founding director, Alice Rivlin, in a memo to CBO staff in 1976.
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To ensure that its work is objective, impartial, and nonpartisan, CBO takes a number of steps. One of those steps is to enforce strict rules to prevent its employees from having financial conflicts of interests and to limit its employees’ political activities.
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Members of CBO’s panels of advisers are selected to represent a variety of perspectives so that the agency can gather information and insights from experts with diverse views as well as from the interactions between those experts at panel meetings. In determining membership on those panels, CBO has had a longstanding practice of considering whether members and potential members are engaged in political activity that might influence, or that might reasonably appear to influence, their perspective. If someone is known to have accepted a political appointment or joined a political campaign while serving on one of CBO’s panels, he or she has generally been asked to leave the panel or has not been invited to serve on it while that activity is taking place and possibly, depending on the nature of the activity, for some period thereafter.
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CBO has a panel of economic advisers consisting of widely recognized experts with a variety of backgrounds, areas of expertise, and experience. Members of the panel generally serve two-year terms, and are sometimes reappointed. The agency hosts periodic meetings of the advisers and solicits their views between meetings. Through these interactions, CBO benefits from the advisers’ understanding of cutting-edge research and their reviews of the agency’s economic forecasts. As a result, the quality of CBO’s analysis of the economy is greatly enhanced. Although such experts provide considerable assistance, CBO is solely responsible for the accuracy of its work.
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CBO produces numerous reports with specific options or broad approaches for changing federal tax and spending policies. CBO periodically publishes a reference volume, often referred to as “Budget Options,” that includes dozens of policy options to reduce federal budget deficits.
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Budget and EconomyWhat is CBO’s estimate of the budget deficit for 2024?
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This page covers recurring reports that CBO has published since 2000. Some of the reports listed here have been published since the 1970s; those earlier reports are all available on CBO's website but are not shown here.
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You are cordially invited to join in commemorating the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the Congressional Budget Office Welcome Douglas W. Elmendorf, Director Opening Remarks The Honorable Tom Price The Honorable Chris Van Hollen The Honorable Rob Portman The Honorable Bernie Sanders Keynote Alice Rivlin, Founding Director