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Enhanced Child Tax Credit helped U.S. families afford life-enhancing necessities and cope with inflation
April 2, 2024
April 2, 2024
Request for Proposals: How effective was the fiscal response to the COVID-19 recession for workers?
March 18, 2024
March 18, 2024
Equitable Growth hosts State of the Union press briefing with leading U.S. economists
March 7, 2024
March 7, 2024
The state of the U.S. labor market 4 years after the start of the COVID-19 recession
March 5, 2024
March 5, 2024
Ahead of President Biden’s State of the Union address, the U.S. economy is strong
February 21, 2024
February 21, 2024
Equitable Growth’s recent ‘Econ 101’ assessed the state of the U.S. economy and recovery for Capitol Hill staff
February 13, 2024
February 13, 2024
Request for proposals: Research grants for early career scholars
November 30, 2023
November 30, 2023
New evidence suggests that receiving benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program facilitates work in the long run
November 13, 2023
November 13, 2023
The Effect of Means-Tested Transfers on Work: Evidence from Quasi-Randomly Assigned SNAP Caseworkers
November 13, 2023
November 13, 2023
What recent research says about the benefits of labor strikes and growing worker power for broader U.S. economic growth
October 25, 2023
October 25, 2023
Long Term Own and Dynamic Complementarity Effects of the WIC Program
August 30, 2023
August 30, 2023
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