Competition
Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how strong competition among U.S. businesses affects inequality and broad-based economic growth. More
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- Concentration
Families
Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how unequal access to care, 21st century work-life policies, and education undermines stable, broad-based economic growth. More
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- Childcare & Early Education
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- Health
- K-12
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Inequality & Mobility
Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how trends in economic inequality and mobility and changes in the economy have affected the concentration of wealth, income, and earnings, and how these distributional shifts have affected the promise of economic security and opportunity. More
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- Economic Inequality
- Economic Mobility
- Economics of Place
- GDP 2.0
- Gender
- Income & Earnings Volatility
- Poverty
- Race & Ethnicity
Labor
Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how inequalities in wages, bargaining power, and the evolving labor market affect workers’ economic security and opportunity as well as broad-based economic growth. More
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- AI, tech, & the economy
- Bargaining Power
- Job Mobility
- Minimum Wage
- Monopsony
- Paid Leave
- Pay Equity
- Schedule Stability
- Unemployment Insurance
- Wage Stagnation
Tax & Macroeconomics
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- Business Taxation
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- Taxes, Inequality & Growth

Must-reads: April 30, 2016

Ben Thompson: Antitrust and Aggregation
Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman (1974): Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases

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Pro Growth Liberal: Could A Higher Minimum Wage Increase Employment?
Larry Mishel: Tired of economists’ misdirection on globalization
Randall K. Q. Akee, William E. Copeland, Gordon Keeler, Adrian Angold, and E. Jane Costello: Parents’ Incomes and Children’s Outcomes: A Quasi-Experiment Using Transfer Payments from Casino Profits:
James Kwak: Cultural Capture in Black and White
Austin Clemens: Interactive: The changing economics of the American family
Rachel B. Herrmann: Histories of Food and Hunger
Paul Krugman: Impurity in the Pursuit of Salvation Is No Vice
Lucia Mutikani: U.S. economy stalls in first quarter as activity weakens broadly
Bequests: An Historical Perspective
Justin Fox: The Big Spenders on R&D

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U.S. economic mobility trends and outcomes

U.S. income and wealth inequality are no longer increasing, but a return to the equitable levels of the mid-20th century isn’t likely anytime soon