Income Distribution
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The Economic Effects of Canceling Scheduled Changes to Overtime Regulations
November 14, 2016 Canceling scheduled changes to overtime regulations before enactment would lower employers’ payroll and compliance costs and increase profits. The cancellation would also lower employees’ pay but increase real family income, CBO finds. -
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Projection and Alignment Methods for Static Microsimulation Models
November 2, 2016 Presentation by Kevin Perese, an analyst for CBO’s Tax Analysis Division, at the Association for Public Policy & Management’s 2016 Fall Research Conference, Pre-Conference Workshop on Microsimulation Modeling -
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Trends in Family Wealth, 1989 to 2013
August 18, 2016From 1989 to 2013, family wealth grew at significantly different rates for different segments of the U.S. population, and the distribution among the nation’s families was more unequal in 2013 than it had been in 1989.
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The Distribution of Household Income and Federal Taxes, 2013
June 8, 2016In 2013, households in the top, middle, and bottom income quintiles received 53, 14, and 5 percent, respectively, of the nation’s before-tax income and paid 69, 9, and 1 percent, respectively, of federal taxes.
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Frameworks for Distributional Analyses
December 31, 2015Presentation by Kevin Perese, Principal Analyst in CBO’s Tax Analysis Division, at the annual meeting of the Allied Social Science Associations.
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Cost Estimate
H.R. 644, Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015
December 10, 2015Conference report for H.R. 644 (House Report 114-376)
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Cost Estimate
H.R. 719, TSA Office of Inspection Accountability Act of 2015 with a further amendment (SA 2689, the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2016)
September 25, 2015H.R. 719, as passed by the House on September 24, 2015 with a further amendment (SA 2689, the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2016)
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The Distribution of Household Income, Federal Taxes, and Government Spending
June 18, 2015Presentation by Kevin Perese, a principal analyst in CBO’s Tax Analysis Division, to the Society of Government Economists.
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The Effects of Potential Cuts in SNAP Spending on Households With Different Amounts of Income
March 16, 2015CBO examines several options that would reduce federal spending on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the effects they would have on households with different amounts of income.
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The Distribution of Household Income and Federal Taxes, 2011
November 12, 2014In 2011, households in the top, middle, and bottom quintiles received 52, 14, and 5 percent of the nation’s before-tax income, respectively; the shares of federal taxes paid by those households were 69, 9, and 1 percent.