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Some federal policies involve short-term expenditures that result in economic and budgetary effects far in the future. CBO has been building analytic capacity to consider a dynamic framework for policies that would have long-term effects.
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In our extended baseline projections in The 2019 Long-Term Budget Outlook, budget deficits drive federal debt held by the public to unprecedented levels.
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This blog post explains how CBO assesses the macroeconomic effects of changes in federal spending for research and development. It also highlights areas in which additional research would enhance CBO’s capacity to evaluate such spending.
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To enhance the transparency of CBO’s work, the agency regularly provides information about the methods and calculations underlying its estimates.
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The Congress adopted a concurrent resolution on the FY16 budget that requires CBO, to the greatest extent practicable, to include macroeconomic effects in its 10-year cost estimates of major legislation approved by Congressional committees.
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Director Keith Hall testified before the Senate Budget Committee on CBO's latest long-term projections for the budget.
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Although much of the analysis that CBO undertakes is very technical in nature, the agency works hard to explain the basis for its findings so that Members of Congress, their staff, and outside analysts can understand the results and question the methods used. To that end, CBO just released a report, How the Supply of Labor Responds to Changes in Fiscal Policy, that explains an important aspect of the agency’s analysis.