About the Center
The Heritage Foundation created the Center for Data Analysis (CDA) in 1997 to provide the public policy community with state-of-the-art modeling, database products and research support. CDA's team of experts provide databases that support strategic research, confidential reviews of legislation for Members of Congress and the Administration and supporting data and analysis for the media, in addition to peer reviewed analytical models that shed critically important insight on how social and economic systems are affected by policy change. The Center's analysts subscribe to research standards that emphasize transparency and peer-review.
The Heritage Foundation created the Center for Data Analysis (CDA) in 1997 to provide the public policy community with state-of-the-art modeling, database products and research support. CDA's team of experts provide databases that support strategic research, confidential reviews of legislation for Members of Congress and the Administration and supporting data and analysis for the media, in addition to peer reviewed analytical models that shed critically important insight on how social and economic systems are affected by policy change. The Center's analysts subscribe to research standards that emphasize transparency and peer-review.
Analytical tools include:
- Microsimulation model of federal income tax policy
- Tax reform models: flat tax and sales tax models
- Computable general equilibrium models for long-term policy analysis
- Social Security Trust Fund and Rate of Return Models
- The WEFA US Macroeconomic Model
The Center maintains scores of policy databases, including:
- - Census Bureau's Current Population Survey
- IRS's Statistics of Income
- - Labor Department's Consumer Expenditure Survey
- - Education databases, including the NAEP series
- - Datasets for analyzing federal crime policies
- - A wide array of databases dealing with federal entitlement policies from Social Security to Medicare.
Featured Data & Charts
Chart 3: Initial Jobless Claims
Chart 1: Consumer Price Index and Producer Price Index Change
Chart 2: Daily Yield Spread, Moody's Aaa and baa Rated Corporate Bonds
Chart 4: Percent of Labor Force Long-Term Unemployed
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The U.S. Economic Outlook
A PowerPoint presentation by William Beach on the implications of mounting federal debt for the debt paying generation. Total debt is expected to grow from $5.8 trillion in 2008 to $11 trillion by 2019. That is 41% of GDP in 2008 becoming 82% of GDP by 2019. A Tsunami of debt from Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid will push total debt to 320% of GDP in 2050 and 750% in 2083. In 2019, Interest payments alone on the debt will be $100 billion more than president Obama projects to spend on the whole Department of Defense.
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