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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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Can policymakers reverse the unequal decline in middle-age U.S. homeownership rates?

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Why cost-benefit analysis of tax regulations has failed, and how to fix it

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Cost-benefit analysis of U.S. tax regulations has failed. What should come next?

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The hidden costs of stock-market-first U.S. economic policies

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Coronavirus Recession

Main Street’s workers, families, and small businesses are now suffering as Wall Street prospers from policies to fight the coronavirus recession

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Coronavirus Recession

Get more money immediately to U.S. families and help them out of the coronavirus recession

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Equitable Growth announces record $1.07 million in research grants on inequality and broadly shared growth

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Racial and ethnic inequality in consumption smoothing

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Recessions during young adulthood and U.S. racial income inequality

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Workers’ bargaining power in the United States over time

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Measuring the rise of wealth inequality, capital gains, and income inequality

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The innovation dividend of fiscal policy: the impact of defense spending on local innovation in U.S

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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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Jacob Robbins

University of Illinois at Chicago

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Guest Author

Michael Ettlinger

University of New Hampshire

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Michael Barr

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

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