Value Added - Equitable Growth

Competition
Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how strong competition among U.S. businesses affects inequality and broad-based economic growth. More
- Topics:
- Anticompetitive Conduct
- Antitrust Enforcement
- Concentration
Families
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
- Topics:
- Childcare & Early Education
- Economic Wellbeing
- Health
- K-12
- Post-secondary Education
Inequality & Mobility
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
- Topics:
- Economic Inequality
- Economic Mobility
- Economics of Place
- GDP 2.0
- Gender
- Income & Earnings Volatility
- Poverty
- Race & Ethnicity
Labor
Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how inequalities in wages, bargaining power, and the evolving labor market affect workers’ economic security and opportunity as well as broad-based economic growth. More
- Topics:
- AI, tech, & the economy
- Bargaining Power
- Job Mobility
- Minimum Wage
- Monopsony
- Paid Leave
- Pay Equity
- Schedule Stability
- Unemployment Insurance
- Wage Stagnation
Tax & Macroeconomics
Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how tax and macroeconomic policies can promote stable and broad-based economic growth. More
- Topics:
- Business Taxation
- Climate
- Credit & Debt
- Fiscal Policy
- Individual Taxation
- Monetary Policy
- Taxes, Inequality & Growth

Value Added – A blog

Our blog is the place where our staff and guest bloggers present clear, fact-based posts that make the connections between economic inequality and growth for the broad policy community and journalists based on the latest academic research.

Coronavirus Recession

What does the research say about paid family and medical leave policy design options in the United States?

By Equitable Growth,

March 25, 2020

March 25, 2020

Equitable Growth,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economic Wellbeing, Health, Paid Leave

Coronavirus Recession

What is paid medical leave and how does it support U.S. workers’ health and the U.S. economy?

By Equitable Growth,

March 25, 2020

March 25, 2020

Equitable Growth,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economic Wellbeing, Health, Paid Leave

Coronavirus Recession

The president must appoint a COVID-19 czar to ramp up production of medical supplies

By Susan Helper, David Clingingsmith, Scott Shane,

March 24, 2020

March 24, 2020

Susan Helper, David Clingingsmith, Scott Shane,

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economic Wellbeing, Health

Coronavirus Recession

Economic experts propose policy responses to coronavirus recession

By Equitable Growth,

March 24, 2020

March 24, 2020

Equitable Growth,

Labor Tax & Macroeconomics Families

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Bargaining Power, Credit & Debt, Economic Wellbeing, Fiscal Policy, Minimum Wage, Monetary Policy, Paid Leave, Unemployment Insurance, Wage Stagnation

Expert Focus

Expert Focus: Women’s History Month

By Christian Edlagan, Maria Monroe,

March 23, 2020

March 23, 2020

Christian Edlagan, Maria Monroe,

Inequality & Mobility Families Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Economic Inequality, Economic Wellbeing, Gender, Job Mobility, Race & Ethnicity

Coronavirus Recession

Creative economic solutions could help us avoid the next Great Depression

By Scott Shane, Susan Helper, David Clingingsmith,

March 21, 2020

March 21, 2020

Scott Shane, Susan Helper, David Clingingsmith,

Tax & Macroeconomics Inequality & Mobility Labor

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Business Taxation, Credit & Debt, Economic Inequality, Income & Earnings Volatility, Job Mobility, Unemployment Insurance, Wage Stagnation

Coronavirus Recession

Weekend reading: The inequality and coronavirus edition

By Emilie Openchowski,

March 21, 2020

March 21, 2020

Emilie Openchowski,

Coronavirus Recession

Brad DeLong: Worthy reads on equitable growth, March 14-20, 2020

By Brad DeLong,

March 20, 2020

March 20, 2020

Brad DeLong,

Coronavirus Recession

Coronavirus recession layoffs require reforms to the Unemployment Insurance program now to fully protect all U.S. workers

By David S. Mitchell,

March 20, 2020

March 20, 2020

David S. Mitchell,

Labor Tax & Macroeconomics

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Taxes, Inequality & Growth, Unemployment Insurance

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