Tad DeHaven is a budget analyst at the Cato Institute and co-editor of www.downsizinggovernment.org.
Cassidy, a 26-year-old budget analyst from Staten Island, said he has a goal of finishing among the top 20.
She was a Budget Analyst for the Department of Public Safety in the State of Hawaii from 1991 to 1992.
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Before becoming chief of the Chicago system in 1995, he was budget director for Mayor Richard Daley, and before that was Illinois' top budget analyst.
"This ignores the trillions of dollars in budget deficits that the president is going to ring up by 2013" says Brian Riedl, a budget analyst at the conservative Heritage Foundation in Washington.
The "budget preparation specialist" designation is a job title within the GS-560 "budget analyst" series that was specifically developed to recognize the unique duties of certain analysts within the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
The projected increase in the deficit is largely due to anticipated growth in Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, which in turn is driven by rising health-care costs, budget analyst Bob Greenstein noted shortly before Obama spoke.
He's a health economist with the American Enterprise Institute and a former analyst with the Congressional Budget Office.
Among those are maternity care, substance abuse and mental-health services and prescription-drug coverage, which aren't standard in individual policies today, says Sarah Lueck, a senior policy analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonprofit group in Washington.
January of 2001, when that transition happened, CBO and every economic analyst out there said that the United States had a budget surplus, and that surpluses would continue as far as forecasters could foresee.
"The President is going to present a budget that is serious about spending cuts and deficit reduction, " predicted CNN senior political analyst David Gergen.
But the point is, what is uncontestable is that those infrastructure projects that were funded by the Recovery Act were very well managed, came in on budget or under budget and led to the creation of many, many jobs by an outside, independent analyst.
John Makumbe, a political analyst, predicts quite a number of handouts in the form of tax cuts will be announced in the budget.
"Companies in industries from consumer electronics to financial services tell us they're no longer sure Facebook is the best place to dedicate their social marketing budget a shocking fact given the site's dominance among users, " said Nate Elliott, an analyst at market research firm Forrester, in a company blog post on Monday.
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