Families Economic Wellbeing
Topic Economic Wellbeing

Economic policy often focuses on metrics of economic growth, such as GDP, that don’t capture the many other ways policies impact the wellbeing of communities, families, and individuals across the country. Equitable Growth highlights relevant, cross-cutting work that enhances our understanding of how economic policy impacts not just economic growth but also families’ wellbeing.

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Enhanced Child Tax Credit helped U.S. families afford life-enhancing necessities and cope with inflation

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Spending Responses to the Child Tax Credit Expansions

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Request for Proposals: How effective was the fiscal response to the COVID-19 recession for workers?

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Equitable Growth hosts State of the Union press briefing with leading U.S. economists

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The state of the U.S. labor market 4 years after the start of the COVID-19 recession

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Ahead of President Biden’s State of the Union address, the U.S. economy is strong

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Equitable Growth’s recent ‘Econ 101’ assessed the state of the U.S. economy and recovery for Capitol Hill staff

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Request for proposals: Research grants for early career scholars

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New evidence suggests that receiving benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program facilitates work in the long run

Inequality & MobilityFamiliesLabor
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The Effect of Means-Tested Transfers on Work: Evidence from Quasi-Randomly Assigned SNAP Caseworkers

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What recent research says about the benefits of labor strikes and growing worker power for broader U.S. economic growth

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Long Term Own and Dynamic Complementarity Effects of the WIC Program

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