David S. Mitchell
David S. Mitchell

Senior Fellow

Washington Center for Equitable Growth

David S. Mitchell is a senior fellow for tax and regulatory policy at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. He previously served as Equitable Growth’s director of government and external relations. Prior to joining Equitable Growth, Mitchell was the associate director for policy and market solutions at the Aspen Institute Financial Security Program, where he led a growing team responsible for amplifying research and spurring action to address the short- and long-term financial challenges facing low- and moderate-income Americans, including income volatility, retirement insecurity, and consumer debt. He previously worked as a legislative aide to U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), handling healthcare and Social Security issues and working on the landmark health reform law that passed in 2010. He also has held positions with the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, the White House National Economic Council, the law firm Hogan Lovells, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, Citizens for Tax Justice, and the National Association of Community Health Centers. Mitchell holds a B.A. in political science from Tufts University, an M.P.A. from the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, and a J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center, where he was a Public Interest Law Scholar.

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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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New evidence shows that limiting a tax break for highly leveraged firms doesn’t hurt the U.S. economy

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Proposed update to federal cost-benefit analysis guidelines correctly focuses on accounting for inequality in regulations

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Why the Inflation Reduction Act is key to strong, broad-based U.S. economic growth

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The economic evidence behind the Inflation Reduction Act and why it will boost strong, broad-based economic growth

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Retirement tax incentives supercharge the fortunes of wealthy Americans

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Billionaires Income Tax proposal seeks to ensure that U.S. ultra-wealthy pay their fair share in taxes

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The economic evidence behind 10 policies in the Build Back Better Act

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In Conversation with Carlos Fernando Avenancio-León

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Equitable Growth network helps Biden-Harris administration implement evidence-backed economic policy

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Executive action to-do list for achieving strong, stable, and broad-based U.S. economic growth

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

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How combating voter suppression can help close the economic divides between Black and White Americans and spur U.S. economic growth

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The consequences of political inequality and voter suppression for U.S. economic inequality and growth

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Economic policy guides to reduce inequality for the 2020 U.S. election-year presidential and congressional transition

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Policy prescriptions for the flawed and unequal retirement savings systems that perpetuate U.S. economic inequality

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Coronavirus Recession

Twenty-one policy resources to combat the coronavirus recession

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Coronavirus Recession

Equitable Growth and The Hamilton Project bring together policymakers and academics to discuss how to fight the coronavirus recession

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Coronavirus recession layoffs require reforms to the Unemployment Insurance program now to fully protect all U.S. workers

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Age discrimination in the U.S. labor market is a major economic obstruction

Labor
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Perceived fiscal space and the case for automatic stabilizers

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