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This is a weekly post we publish on Fridays with links to articles that touch on economic inequality and growth. The first section is a round-up of what Equitable Growth published this week and the second is the work we’re highlighting from elsewhere. We won’t be the first to share these articles, but we hope […]
With the launch of our new website, we are reintroducing visitors to our policy issue areas. Informed by the academic research we fund, these issue areas are critical to our mission of advancing evidence-based ideas that promote strong, stable, and broad-based economic growth. Through the rest of June and early July, our expert staff are […]
Worthy reads on Equitable Growth: Very nice to see “Janet Yellen Joins Equitable Growth Steering Committee”. “There are few economists with the depth of academic and policymaking experience that Janet Yellen possesses,” said Heather Boushey, Equitable Growth’s executive director and chief economist. “She has worked tirelessly, in her research and in her high government positions, […]
What was new about the housing bubble experienced across most of the United States from 2002 to 2006? The common story of the housing bubble and the resulting crash is that homeowners used their houses like ATMs, borrowing against the increased value of their homes to increase their consumption in a way they hadn’t before. […]
A new working paper released today by the Washington Center for Equitable Growth suggests that consolidation among employers in the United States has created market power over their current and prospective employees and is contributing to lower wages. In “Anticompetitive Mergers in Labor Markets,” University of Pennsylvania economist Ioana Marinescu and University of Pennsylvania law […]
Women now make up almost half of the U.S. workforce and more than half of the U.S. population. Despite the central role women play in the economy, our labor laws and institutions do too little to address the various ways in which women are held back at work. This not only hampers women’s economic well-being, […]
This is a weekly post we publish on Fridays with links to articles that touch on economic inequality and growth. The first section is a round-up of what Equitable Growth published this week and the second is the work we’re highlighting from elsewhere. We won’t be the first to share these articles, but we hope […]
The public discussion about inflation and unemployment appears to me to be substantially awry. It appears to incorporate two, and only two, lessons from history. The first of these lessons is that pushing the unemployment rate below the level corresponding to full employment leads to strong upward pressure on inflation. The second of these lessons […]
Worthy reads on Equitable Growth: The development of the idea that economics—labor economics especially—needs to focus more on power needs to be highlighted anew. Read our former colleague Ben Zipperer’s conversation with David Card and Alan Krueger: “Equitable Growth in Conversation: An interview with David Card and Alan Krueger.” Here’s Krueger in the interview: “I […]
Tax policy is an important tool for improving economic performance and ensuring that the benefits of economic growth are broadly shared. Taxes support the living standards of the American public by providing the revenues necessary to pay for public investment in children, families, and infrastructure, for social insurance and safety net programs, for national defense, and for many other public programs that support our quality of life. Taxes also affect the choices people make in both positive and negative ways and, as a result, influence the level and distribution of income, consumption, wealth, and broader measures of economic well-being.
