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A strong economy is one that operates at its potential and delivers a high standard of living to the entire population. Monetary, fiscal, and tax policy all play important roles in determining the level and distribution of income, wealth, and other, broader measures of economic wellbeing. Equitable Growth promotes research to improve our understanding of how these policy tools can ensure the economy works for everyone, and reduce the impact of economic downturns.

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Allowing the 2017 estate tax changes to expire will reduce U.S. inequality and promote economic growth and opportunity

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Factsheet: What the research says about taxing pass-through businesses

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Closing the billionaire borrowing loophole would strengthen the progressivity of the U.S. tax code

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Doubling down on cuts to the IRS is bad for the federal budget and for tax fairness in the United States

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Why measuring inflation is surprisingly challenging

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In Conversation with R. Jisung Park

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Allowing the 2017 estate tax changes to expire will reduce U.S. inequality and promote economic growth and opportunity

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End Ineffective Business Tax Breaks Before Creating New Ones

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Equitable Growth’s ‘Econ 101’ offered congressional staffers a rundown of the contours of U.S. tax policy

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The unequal impact of the Federal Reserve’s monetary tightening and easing on firms in the United States

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Asymmetric Effects of Monetary Policy on Firms

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The upcoming U.S. election’s most important policy effects are under the radar

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COVID-19 Relief Funding and the Child Care Workforce

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The Distributional Consequences of Private Equity

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Cash Grants to Firms as Counter-Cyclical Policy: Evidence from $125 Million in Lottery Awards

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Employment Effects of the Employee Retention Tax Credit

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Evaluating the Impact of the 2021 CDCTC Expansion on Women’s Labor Supply and Childcare Utilization

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Stimulating Labor Markets: The Effects of the COVID-19 Economic Impact Payments

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Recession Ready

Recession Ready

Edited by Heather Boushey, Ryan Nunn, and Jay Shambaugh

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Experts on the issue

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Xavier Jaravel

London School of Economics

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Karen Dynan

Harvard University

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Jacob Robbins

University of Illinois at Chicago

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Michael Ettlinger

University of New Hampshire

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Michael Barr

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

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