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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.
- Presentation
Presentation by Jeff Werling, CBO’s Assistant Director for Macroeconomic Analysis, at the Inforum Annual Conference at the University of Maryland, College Park.
- Report
In its 2018 projections for fiscal year 2019, CBO overestimated revenues and underestimated outlays by 0.8 percent and 0.1 percent, respectively. CBO’s projection of the federal budget deficit in 2019 was less than the actual amount by 0.1 percent of GDP.
- Presentation
Presentation by Michael Falkenheim, a senior adviser in CBO’s Financial Analysis Division, to the Mortgage Bankers of America.
- Presentation
Presentation by Molly Saunders-Scott and Jennifer Shand, analysts in CBO’s Tax Analysis Division, at the National Tax Association’s 112th Annual Conference on Taxation.
- Presentation
Presentation by Christina Hawley Anthony, Chief of the Projections Unit in CBO’s Budget Analysis Division, and Robert Arnold, Chief of the Projections Unit in CBO’s Macroeconomic Analysis Division, to the American Association for Budget and Program Analysis.
- Presentation
Presentation by Jeffrey F. Werling, CBO’s Assistant Director for Macroeconomic Analysis, at a conference organized by the Foundation for Teaching Economics.
- Blog Post
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.
- Report
CBO’s economic forecasts have been comparable in quality to those of the Administration and the Blue Chip consensus. Large errors in CBO’s forecasts tend to reflect challenges faced by all forecasters.
- Presentation
Presentation by Michael Falkenheim, a senior adviser in CBO’s Financial Analysis Division, at a joint seminar by CBO and the Congressional Research Service.