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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Paid sick time and paid family and medical leave support workers in different ways and are both good for the broader U.S. economy

FamiliesLabor
TOPICS: Health, Paid Leave
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Equitable Growth’s new efforts to foster more diversity in grantmaking and new pathways for scholars in the economics profession

Inequality & MobilityLabor
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Understanding how U.S. workers can benefit from workplace automation and artificial intelligence

Inequality & Mobility
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Fostering academic research on U.S. economic impact payments that goes beyond the marginal propensity to consume

FamiliesTax & Macroeconomics
Expert Focus

Expert Focus: Advancing the frontier of economic data creation and measurement

Inequality & Mobility
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Paid sick leave improves public health outcomes and supports U.S. workers at a relatively low cost to employers

Families
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TOPICS: Health
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Austerity policies in the United States caused ‘stagflation’ in the 1970s and would do so again today

Tax & Macroeconomics
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ASSA 2022 Round-up: Day 3

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ASSA 2022 Round-up: Day 2