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Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how strong competition among U.S. businesses affects inequality and broad-based economic growth. More
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Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how unequal access to care, 21st century work-life policies, and education undermines stable, broad-based economic growth. More
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- K-12
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Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how trends in economic inequality and mobility and changes in the economy have affected the concentration of wealth, income, and earnings, and how these distributional shifts have affected the promise of economic security and opportunity. More
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- Economic Mobility
- Economics of Place
- GDP 2.0
- Gender
- Income & Earnings Volatility
- Poverty
- Race & Ethnicity
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- AI, tech, & the economy
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- Schedule Stability
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- Wage Stagnation
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Must-Reads: January 11, 2016

Larry Summers: Heed the Fears of the Financial Markets
Antonio Fatas: BIS Redefines Inflation (Again)
Jared Bernstein: 2015 Was Solid Year for Job Growth: “Payrolls were up 292,000 in December and the unemployment rate held steady at a low rate of 5%…”
Paul Krugman: Summarizing the Trialogue

Nick Bunker: Thinking about Wealth Taxes
Zmarak Shalizi and J. Vernon Henderson (2000): Geography and Development
Dean Baker: The Big Short: A Tale of Fools and Crooks
Tren Griffin: Charlie Munger
Tobias Adrian, Richard Crump, Benjamin Mills, and Emanuel Moench: Treasury Term Premia: 1961-Present
Dan Wang: Flexport
ChronoZoom
GiveWell
George Akerlof, William Dickens, and George Perry (1996): The Macroeconomics of Low Inflation
Michael Tomasky: Democracy Journal: Winter 2016 Issue: “New year, new issue and, most important, new website…”
Andrew Berg, Andrea F Presbitero, and Luis-Felipe Zanna: Public Investment: Efficiency and Growth

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U.S. economic mobility trends and outcomes

U.S. income and wealth inequality are no longer increasing, but a return to the equitable levels of the mid-20th century isn’t likely anytime soon