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Congressional Budget Office weighs in on the next 30 years

Mar 30, 2017
If you want to be loved, you don’t go to work for the Congressional Budget Office. The non-partisan agency’s job is to make economic projections and provide Congress with all sorts of budget data. Data that fails to account for all sorts of possibilities and invariably makes somebody unhappy. The agency earned the wrath of […]

Blame low wages on slack

Aug 26, 2015
The CBO is refining its thoughts on why American wages seem to be stuck.

The Congressional Budget Office: staying above the fray

May 19, 2015
New CBO head Keith Hall has the tough job of keeping politics out of the agency.

How Obamacare will shrink the workforce

Feb 4, 2014
The Congressional Budget Office says some folks will stop working altogether, while others will work fewer hours