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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Vision 2020

Addressing the U.S. racial economic mobility and inequality divides

Inequality & Mobility
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Brad DeLong: Worthy reads on equitable growth, August 11-17, 2020

Vision 2020

Reforming Unemployment Insurance across the United States

LaborInequality & MobilityTax & Macroeconomics
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Weekend reading: Racial health and economic disparities on Black Women’s Equal Pay Day edition

Coronavirus Recession

Restoring the federal estate tax is a proven way to raise revenue and address wealth inequality

Inequality & MobilityTax & Macroeconomics
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Five ways to understand Black Women’s Equal Pay Day

LaborInequality & Mobility
Expert Focus

Expert Focus: The intersection of community and inequality

Inequality & MobilityFamiliesLabor
Coronavirus Recession

Most recent JOLTS release provides latest data on how the coronavirus recession is different from the Great Recession

Labor
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Hearing with tech CEOs sets stage for new legislation to tackle anticompetitive conduct by dominant firms in the U.S. economy

Competition