tailieunhanh - THE PEOPLE’S BUDGET A TECHNICAL ANALYSIS



 The
Louisiana
Bucket
Brigade
(LABB)
is
a
non‐profit
organization.
Its
mission
is
to
support
communities’
 use
of
grassroots
action
to
achieve
sustainable
neighborhoods
free
from
industrial
pollution.
Tulane
 University’s
Disaster
Resilience
Leadership
Academy
(DRLA)
was
also
involved
in
this
survey.
The
mission
 of
DRLA
is
to
strengthen
disaster
assistance
and
humanitarian
leadership
globally
to
increase
resilience
 in
communities
threatened
by
natural
and
manmade
disasters.
 
 In
June
2010,
Patagonia
Clothing
Company,
a
long‐time
donor
of
LABB,
approached
the
organization
 about
ways
their
employees
could
volunteer
with
the
organization’s
oil
spill
response
efforts.
As
a
result,
 Patagonia
sent
70
employee
volunteers
to
Louisiana
over
the
course
of
two
months
beginning
in
July
 2010.
With
a
robust
labor
pool,
LABB
was
able
to
conduct
a
door‐to‐door
survey
across
seven
Southeast
 Louisiana
areas
from
which
data
for
this
pilot
study
was
collected.
. | _____________ EPI WORKING PAPER ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE I APRIL 13 2011 I 290 THE PEOPLE S BUDGET A TECHNICAL ANALYSIS ANDREW FIELDHOUSE Policy Analyst Economic Policy Institute ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE 1333 H STREET NW SUITE 300 EAST TOWER WASHINGTON DC 20005 Introduction The Congressional Progressive Caucus has drafted a progressive budget titled the People s Budget as an alternative to the House Republican 2012 budget and President Barack Obama s 2012 budget request. The Economic Policy Institute EPI has analyzed and scored the specific policy proposals in the People s Budget and modeled their cumulative impact on the federal budget over the next decade. The policies in the People s Budget reflect the decisions of the Congressional Progressive Caucus leadership and staff not that of the Economic Policy The People s Budget Department of Defense proposals were crafted by Congressional Progressive Caucus staff in conjunction with Congressional Research Service staff budgetary scores were provided to the Economic Policy Institute but independent verification is beyond our area of expertise. All other policy proposals have been independently analyzed and scored by EPI based on a variety of other sources notably data from the Congressional Budget Office Joint Committee on Taxation Office of Management and Budget Tax Policy Center and Citizens for Tax Justice. This Working Paper will explain the budget baseline assumptions the policy choices policy impacts and budgetary modeling used in analyzing the People s Budget. A Credible Baseline The Congressional Budget Office CBO March 2011 baseline is the starting point for this analysis however we make several adjustments to the current law baseline which underestimates outlays and overestimates revenue relative to the current policies that will almost certainly be continued beyond their present statutory limits. There are several major differences between current law and current .