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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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Is U.S. investment capital flowing to the best possible destinations?

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What could boost U.S. business investment?

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A Child Tax Credit primer

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Lack of market competition, rising profits, and a new way to look at the division of income in the United States

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Taxing the rich more: Preliminary evidence from the 2013 tax increase

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Taxing the rich more—evidence from the 2013 federal tax increase

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Business taxation, retained earnings, and measuring income inequality

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Functional finance vs. conventional finance: What’s really at stake?

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Lost in fiscal space: Some simple analytics of macroeconomic policy in the spirit of Tinbergen, Wicksell and Lerner

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Recessions happen. But how often?

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Unemployment insurance reform: a primer

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What new administrative data reveals about access to consumer credit and the U.S. economy

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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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Michael Ettlinger

University of New Hampshire

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Michael Barr

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

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