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Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how strong competition among U.S. businesses affects inequality and broad-based economic growth.

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Monopoly power threatens broader economic growth and exacerbates inequality by increasing prices, hindering new business formation, stifling innovation, and diminishing workers’ wages. Current research on the U.S. economy increasingly finds decreasing competition and increasing concentration across industries. Equitable Growth supports research to understand the causes and impacts of increasing market power and to develop policy proposals that will strengthen competition.

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The impacts of increasing U.S. hospital consolidation on Medicaid recipients

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What the research says about the impacts of hospital consolidation across the United States

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U.S. labor market concentration, competition, and worker bargaining power as employment trends shift from manufacturing to services

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Major federal ‘Big Tech’ antitrust case against Google will test the strength of current U.S. antitrust laws in new digital markets

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New research suggests connections between market concentration and the exercise of political power in the United States

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The state of U.S. federal antitrust enforcement

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Executive action to spur equitable growth

Executive actions to coordinate antitrust and competition policies across the federal government

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Competitive Edge

Competitive Edge: Big Ag’s monopsony problem: How market dominance harms U.S. workers and consumers

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A new vision for antitrust enforcement in the United States

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Competitive Edge: Why noncompete clauses in employment contracts are by and large harmful to U.S. workers and the U.S. economy

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Labor Non-Compete Agreements: Tool for Economic Efficiency, or Means to Extract Value from Workers?

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Boosting Wages

Boosting wages when U.S. labor markets are not competitive

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Boosting Wages

Addressing gender and racial disparities in the U.S. labor market to boost wages and power innovation

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Expert Focus

Expert Focus: Understanding the role of market structure in equitable growth

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Coronavirus Recession

How to bring down the price of drugs such as the novel coronavirus therapy remdesivir

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Restoring Competition in the United States: A Vision of Antitrust Enforcement for the Next Decade

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Restoring competition in the United States

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Equitable Growth’s labor market experts deliver comment letter to U.S. Department of Labor on status of independent contractors

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Competitive Edge

A monthly series that discusses how to increase competition in the U.S. economy.

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Experts on the issue

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Gabriel Unger

Stanford University

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Minji Kim

Georgetown University

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Seula Kim

Princeton University

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Aaron S. Kesselheim

Harvard University

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James W. Roberts

Duke University

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