Reference Links
Useful budget and economic data references for congressional staff, curated by the Fiscal Lab.
Congressional Budget Offices
- Key Budget and Economic Datacbo.gov
- Baseline Projections for Selected Programscbo.gov
- Budget Optionscbo.gov
- Estimates of the President’s Budget Proposalscbo.gov
- Publications with Supplemental Data Filescbo.gov
- The Budget and Economic Outlookcbo.gov
- Long-Term Budget Outlookcbo.gov
- Cost Estimatescbo.gov
- A Joint Committee of the United States Congress | Joint Committee on Taxationjct.gov
- Revenue Estimatingjct.gov
- Requesting Estimates and Analysisjct.gov
- Revenue Estimatesjct.gov
- Tax Expendituresjct.gov
- Bluebookjct.gov
- CRS Products on Congress.govcongress.gov
- CRS Appropriations Status Tablecongress.gov
- Appropriations Report Language: Overview of Development, Content, and Issuescongress.gov
Congress and Committees
- Budget of the United States Governmentwhitehouse.gov
- OMB Historical Tableswhitehouse.gov
- OMB Analytical Perspectiveswhitehouse.gov
- OMB supplemental materials / technical supplementwhitehouse.gov
- OMB Circulars pagewhitehouse.gov
- “About CRS Products” help pagecongress.gov
Economic Data
- Current releases listbea.gov
- Release Schedulebea.gov
- Interactive Data (iTable) Application Hubbea.gov
- National GDP & Personal Income tablesbea.gov
- Gross Domestic Product (GDP) release pagebea.gov
- Personal Income and Outlaysbea.gov
- PCE Price Index (headline) and core PCE pagebea.gov
- BLS release calendarbls.gov
- Databases, Tables & Calculatorsbls.gov
- The Employment Situationbls.gov
- CPI (Consumer Price Index) homepagebls.gov
- Employment Cost Index (ECI)bls.gov
- Census Bureau Datadata.census.gov
- Census data landing pagecensus.gov
- American Community Survey (ACS) datacensus.gov
- Current Population Survey (CPS) program pagecensus.gov
- Population Estimates Programcensus.gov
- Decennial Census of Population and Housingcensus.gov
- County Business Patterns (CBP)census.gov
- Federal Reserve Economic Datafred.stlouisfed.org
- Economic Release Calendarfred.stlouisfed.org
- Economic FRED Mapsfredaccount.stlouisfed.org
- Nominal Gross Domestic Product (GDP).fred.stlouisfed.org
- Real Gross Domestic Product (GDPC1).fred.stlouisfed.org
- Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: All Items in U.S. City Average (CPIAUCSL).fred.stlouisfed.org
- Personal Consumption Expenditures: Chain-type Price Index.fred.stlouisfed.org
- Unemployment Rate (UNRATE).fred.stlouisfed.org
Other Research and References
- Budget of the United States Government | Govinfogovinfo.gov
- Public Budget Database User’s Guidebidenwhitehouse.archives.gov