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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- Anticompetitive Conduct
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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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- 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
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- Minimum Wage
- Monopsony
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- Pay Equity
- Schedule Stability
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- Wage Stagnation
Tax & Macroeconomics
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- Taxes, Inequality & Growth

Must-reads: May 2, 2016

Shane Ferro: Thoughts on Business Insider
Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren: The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility: Childhood Exposure Effects and County-Level Estimates
Adam Smith (1776): Wealth of Nations, Book IV, Chapter 2

Should-reads:

New Economic Thinking, Hicks-Hansen-Wicksell Macro, and Blocking the Back Propagation Induction-Unraveling from the Long Run Omega Point: The Honest Broker for the Week of May 31, 2015
Barry Eichengreen and Poona Gupta: Managing Sudden Stops
Robert Rubin and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach: In Defense of Federal Food Aid
Min Zhu
Melanie Evans: Big hospital mergers failing to deliver promised results
Justin Fox: Learning to Love (Tolerate?) Big Government
Nick Bunker: Competition in the U.S. labor market – Equitable Growth
Bernard Mandeville: The Fable of the Bees; or Private Vices, Publick Benefits

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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