Employment and Labor Markets
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Automatic Stabilizers in the Federal Budget: 2022 to 2032
CBO projects the budgetary effects of automatic stabilizers—as well as the size of deficits without them—from 2022 to 2032 and provides historical estimates of the stabilizers’ effects since 1972.
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Policy Approaches to Reduce What Commercial Insurers Pay for Hospitals’ and Physicians’ Services
CBO identified policy approaches that federal lawmakers could adopt to reduce the prices that commercial insurers pay for hospitals’ and physicians’ services, thereby lowering health insurance premiums and the cost of federal subsidies.
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S. 3868, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officer Retirement Technical Corrections Act
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on March 30, 2022.
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Economic Analysis of Budget Reconciliation Legislation
CBO provides answers to four questions that Senator Lindsey Graham asked related to H.R. 5376, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, and broader economic conditions.
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The 2022 Long-Term Budget Outlook
The U.S. faces a challenging fiscal outlook according to CBO's extended baseline projections, which show budget deficits and federal debt held by the public growing steadily in relation to gross domestic product over the next three decades.
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The Demographic Outlook: 2022 to 2052
In CBO’s projections, the size of the U.S. population increases from 335 million people in 2022 to 369 million people in 2052. Population growth is increasingly driven by net immigration, which accounts for all population growth in 2043 and beyond.
- Cost Estimate
CBO’s Estimate of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Effects of H.R. 521, the First Responder Fair RETIRE Act
As ordered Reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform on May 11, 2022
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Work Requirements and Work Supports for Recipients of Means-Tested Benefits
CBO analyzes the effects of work requirements and work supports on employment and income of participants in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, and Medicaid.
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How Changes in Economic Conditions Might Affect the Federal Budget: 2022 to 2032
To show how variations in economic conditions might affect its budget projections, CBO analyzed how the budget might change if values of four key economic variables differed from those in the agency’s forecast.
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Workbook for How Changes in Economic Conditions Might Affect the Federal Budget: 2022 to 2032
This workbook allows users to define and analyze alternative economic scenarios by specifying differences in the values of four economic variables from those underlying CBO's May 2022 projections.