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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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The promise of equitable and pro-growth tax reform

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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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Coronavirus Recession

New Great Recession data suggest Congress should go big to spur a broad-based, sustained U.S. economic recovery

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Carbon Pricing and Innovation in a World of Political Constraints

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Executive action to spur equitable growth

Executive actions to reform the cost-benefit analysis of U.S. tax regulations

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Executive action to spur equitable growth

Executive actions to coordinate federal countercyclical regulatory policy

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Coronavirus Recession

How to replace COVID relief deadlines with automatic ‘triggers’ that meet the needs of the U.S. economy

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Expert Focus: Understanding the economic impacts of climate change

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Understanding the macroeconomic consequences of rising income and wealth inequality in the United States

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Boosting Wages

Collective bargaining as a path to more equitable wage growth in the United States

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Boosting Wages

Targeting business tax incentives to realize U.S. wage growth

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A Price-Based Approach to Distributing Taxes on Business Income

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Public investments in education can spur equitable growth, pay for themselves, and create jobs for a stronger economic recovery

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Expert Focus: The consequences of economic inequality among Latinx groups in the United States

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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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Steering Committee

Karen Dynan

Harvard University

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Grantee

Jacob Robbins

University of Illinois at Chicago

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Guest Author

Michael Ettlinger

University of New Hampshire

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Grantee

Michael Barr

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

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