Poverty and Income Security
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The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2020 to 2030
In CBO’s projections of the outlook under current law, deficits remain large by historical standards, federal debt grows to 98 percent of GDP by 2030, and the economy expands at an average annual rate of 1.7 percent from 2021 to 2030.
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How Dependents Affect Federal Income Taxes
CBO examines the tax benefit of having dependents under current law in 2019 and 2026 and analyzes how three policy options that would simplify dependent-related tax provisions would affect that benefit.
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Answers to Questions for the Record Following a Hearing Conducted by the House Committee on the Budget: Key Design Components and Considerations for Establishing a Single-Payer Health Care System
The House Budget Committee convened a hearing at which members of CBO's staff testified about the agency’s report Key Design Components and Considerations for Establishing a Single-Payer Health Care System. This document provides CBO’s answers to questions submitted for the record.
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Projected Changes in the Distribution of Household Income, 2016 to 2021
This report projects the distributions of household income, means-tested transfers, and federal taxes under current law in 2021 and compares them with the actual distributions in 2016.
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HISIM2—CBO’s New Health Insurance Simulation Model
Presentation by Alexandra Minicozzi, a unit chief in CBO’s Health, Retirement, and Long-Term Analysis Division (HRLD), and Geena Kim, an analyst in HRLD, to the Health Economics Scientific Interest Group at the National Institutes of Health.
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The Effects of Increasing the Federal Minimum Wage on Employment and Family Income
Presentation by William Carrington, an analyst in CBO’s Microeconomic Studies Division, to the Department of Economics at Haverford College.
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The Effects on Employment and Family Income of Increasing the Federal Minimum Wage: A Presentation
Presentation by William Carrington, an analyst in CBO’s Microeconomic Studies Division, at the University of Michigan’s 67th Annual Economic Outlook Conference.
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CBO Releases an Interactive Tool and Related Computer Code for Analyzing the Effects of Federal Minimum-Wage Increases
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.
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H.R. 2203, the Homeland Security Improvement Act of 2019
CBO’s Estimate of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Effects of Rules Committee Print 116-27, as Reported by the House Committee on Homeland Security, with Modifications
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Sections 534 and 535 of H.R. 3931, the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2020
Analysis of the immigration provisions in sections 534 and 535 of the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2020, as reported by the House Committee on Appropriations on July 24, 2019.