Congressional Budget Office
The Congressional Budget Office publishes each year a nonpartisan long-term projection of what it expects will be seen in federal deficits, debt, spending, and revenues. The annual report looks out...
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The Congressional Budget Office is forecasting a decline of 12% in U.S. GDP for the second quarter.
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According to the latest estimate by the Congressional Budget Office, the U.S. government ran a budget deficit just shy of $1 trillion in the recently closed fiscal year.
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The Congressional Budget Office is projecting a 10-year budget deficit of $11.4 trillion through the end of 2029. The first $1 trillion annual deficit is forecast to come next year.
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The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill to take the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. There is evidence that more than 3 million people could lose jobs because companies may be unable...
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According to a new report from the Congressional Budget Office, a federal minimum wage increase to $15 an hour would raise the incomes of 27 million Americans at the cost of 1.3 million jobs. That...
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If the CBO is correct, the U.S. economy will go two decades without a recession, which is near twice any past the period.
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The Congressional Budget Office Tuesday projected that U.S. debt repayment will equal Social Security spending by 2048.
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Roku likely will have an initial public offering before the end of the year, the Congressional Budget Office reports that the White House will be unable to balance the U.S. budget for a decade, and...
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What is the public supposed to think when the Affordable Care Act is still under attack and the CBO says that repealing it would increase federal budget deficits by $137 billion over the 2016 to 2025...
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Source: ThinkstockThe U.S. Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its Budget and Economic Outlook: 2015 to 2025 Monday morning. The non-partisan CBO now estimates that the federal budget deficit...
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Source: U.S. National Park ServiceThe last time the United States had a budget surplus was in 2001, according the White House. Unimaginably, it may have one again, and within a very few years.The...
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Source: ThinkstockThe Congressional Budget Office released a report that claims that an increase in the national minimum wage to $10.10 will cost American businesses $15 billion in 2017. The debate...
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Source: ThinkstockThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its updated estimate of the U.S. federal budget deficit on Monday afternoon. The agency now estimates that the fiscal year 2014...
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Source: Jon OggTo raise the minimum wage or not to raise it, that is the big question right now. It turns out that one’s opinion on the matter may be as simple as how you vote. 24/7 Wall St. has...
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