As required by law, CBO prepares regular reports on its estimate of the number of jobs created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which was enacted in response to significant weakness in the economy.
August 2012
Today CBO released An Update to the Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022. The report, issued annually in the late summer, contains the agency’s updated economic and budget projections spanning the period from 2012 through 2022. CBO also published an infographic about the fiscal tightening scheduled to occur in 2013 and its economic consequences.
Key aspects of our projections are illustrated in the figures below.
CBO has analyzed a proposal—in a report requested by the Chairman of the House Budget Committee—to immediately open most federal lands to oil and gas leasing.
CBO estimates in its latest Monthly Budget Review that the Treasury Department will report a deficit of $975 billion for the first 10 months of fiscal year 2012, $125 billion less than the $1.1 trillion deficit incurred through July 2011. Through the end of July, revenues were about 6 percent higher this year than at the same point last year; outlays were about the same in both years.
The Congressional Budget Office will release The Budget and Economic Outlook: An Update on Wednesday, August 22. That report, which CBO issues annually in the late summer, will contain the agency’s updated economic and budget projections spanning the period from 2012 through 2022. It will be available on CBO’s website at 10:00 a.m. (Details about arrangements for the press may be found on the press page.)