Budget Options
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Social Security Policy Options
CBO anticipates that starting in 2016, if current laws remain in place, the program's annual spending will regularly exceed its tax revenues.
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Social Security Policy Options
Social Security is the federal government’s largest single program, and as the U.S. population grows older in the coming decades, its cost is projected to increase more rapidly than its revenues.
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Costs and Policy Options for Federal Student Loan Programs
The federal government helps students finance higher education through two major loan programs—one that guarantees loans made by private lenders, and one that makes loans directly to borrowers.
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Costs and Policy Options for Federal Student Loan Programs
This CBO study compares the budgetary and fair-value costs of the federal student loan programs. It also looks at several options for modifying those programs.
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Budgetary Impact of the President's Proposal to Alter Federal Student Loan Programs
This afternoon CBO responded to Senator Greggs requestfor estimates of the budgetary impact of the Presidents proposal to eliminate the federal program that provides guarantees for student loans and to replace those loans with di
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Budgetary Impact of the President's Proposal to Alter Federal Student Loan Programs
Letter to the Honorable Judd Gregg
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Using a Different Measure of Inflation for Indexing Federal Programs and the Tax Code
Federal laws try to protect taxpayers and recipients of government benefits from the effects of rising prices by specifying that dollar amounts in many parts of the tax code and in some programs be automatically adjustedor indexedfor inflation.
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Using a Different Measure of Inflation for Indexing Federal Programs and the Tax Code
Economic and Budget Issue Brief