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.
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Coronavirus Recession
U.S. economic policymakers need to fight the coronavirus now
By
Claudia Sahm,
March 4, 2020
March 4, 2020
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The never-ending cycle: Incarceration, credit scores, and wealth accumulation in the United States
March 4, 2020
March 4, 2020
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Gross Domestic Product sets the tone of the U.S. economic debate while leaving working- and middle-class families behind
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Austin Clemens,
March 3, 2020
March 3, 2020
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Age discrimination in the U.S. labor market is a major economic obstruction
March 2, 2020
March 2, 2020
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Brad DeLong: Worthy reads on equitable growth, February 22-28, 2020
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Brad DeLong,
February 28, 2020
February 28, 2020
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Weekend reading: Working to close racial gaps in economics, the workforce, and education edition
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Equitable Growth,
February 28, 2020
February 28, 2020
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Black economists are missing from the Federal Reserve and the U.S. economics profession
By
Claudia Sahm,
February 28, 2020
February 28, 2020
Competitive Edge
Competitive Edge: The states’ view of vertical merger guidelines in U.S. antitrust enforcement
By
Phil Weiser,
February 27, 2020
February 27, 2020
Vision 2020
Improved public school teaching of racial oppression could enable U.S. society to grasp the roots and effects of racial and economic inequality
February 27, 2020
February 27, 2020