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ASSA 2024 Round-up: Day 1

Inequality & Mobility
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Equitable Growth announces new Steering Committee members to guide grantmaking and shape research priorities

Inequality & Mobility
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Request for proposals: Research grants for early career scholars

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Sameera Fazili and Mary Beth Maxwell join Equitable Growth’s Board of Directors

CompetitionFamiliesInequality & MobilityLaborTax & Macroeconomics
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What recent research says about the benefits of labor strikes and growing worker power for broader U.S. economic growth

LaborInequality & MobilityFamilies
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Equitable Growth announces new round of grantmaking exploring the connection between policy and economic growth

Inequality & Mobility
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Equitable Growth delivers economist sign-on letter and comment letter to the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs on its Proposed Revisions to Circular A-4, Regulatory Analysis

Tax & MacroeconomicsInequality & MobilityFamilies
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Equitable Growth grantee Gabriel Zucman awarded the 2023 John Bates Clark Medal

Tax & MacroeconomicsInequality & Mobility
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Equitable Growth delivers comment letter responding to the Federal Trade Commission’s Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Non-Compete Clauses

CompetitionLabor
Executive action to spur equitable growth

Executive actions to strengthen unions and increase worker power in the United States

Labor
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Summary of Equitable Growth’s March ‘Econ 101’ briefing on inflation for Capitol Hill staffers

Inequality & MobilityTax & Macroeconomics
Executive action to spur equitable growth

Executive actions to modernize federal data collection and improve measurements of U.S. economic inequality

Inequality & Mobility
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TOPICS: GDP 2.0
Executive action to spur equitable growth

Executive actions to reduce inequality and improve job quality for U.S. workers

Labor
Executive action to spur equitable growth

Executive actions to strengthen U.S. income support programs and support research about them

Labor
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Climate policy has potential to spur economic growth and ensure a competitive U.S. economy

Inequality & Mobility
Executive action to spur equitable growth

Executive actions to leverage federal agencies to improve child care in the United States

Families
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A future-oriented approach to wealth offers new possibilities for wealth creation in the United States

Inequality & Mobility
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Equitable Growth announces Shayna Strom as new president and CEO

Inequality & Mobility
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ASSA 2023 Round-up: Day 3

Inequality & Mobility
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ASSA 2023 Round-up: Day 2

Inequality & Mobility
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ASSA 2023 Round-up: Day 1

Inequality & Mobility
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The importance of understanding how job quality affects U.S. workers and the entire economy, and how to boost access to good jobs

LaborInequality & Mobility
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A missed opportunity to expand the Child Tax Credit will affect U.S. families and the broader economy now and for years to come

Inequality & MobilityFamiliesTax & Macroeconomics
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How the new Global Repository of Income Dynamics database sheds light on income inequality and economic mobility

Inequality & Mobility
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Equitable Growth delivers comment letter responding to U.S. Department of Labor’s Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on classifying employees and independent contractors

Labor
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Equitable Growth delivers comment letter responding to the National Labor Relations Board’s Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Joint-Employer Standard

Labor
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Equitable Growth works to expand its network of scholars researching inequality and growth at two fall academic conferences

Inequality & Mobility
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Frequently asked questions about paid sick time for U.S. workers and their families and the broader U.S. economy

FamiliesLabor
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Factsheet: What the research says about the economics of the 2021 enhanced Child Tax Credit

FamiliesTax & Macroeconomics
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Equitable Growth delivers comment letter responding to FTC’s Advanced Notice of Proposing Rulemaking on Commercial Surveillance and Data Security

Labor
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Advancing research and evidence on child care and U.S. economic growth

FamiliesInequality & Mobility
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Green jobs are good for U.S. workers and the U.S. economy

Tax & MacroeconomicsInequality & Mobility
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Equitable Growth announces two Dissertation Scholars for 2022–23 academic year

Inequality & MobilityFamilies
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Equitable Growth provides comments to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis on its new distributing personal income report

Inequality & Mobility
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Consumers initially spend less than a third of their stimulus checks, on average, amid recessions

FamiliesTax & Macroeconomics
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Equitable Growth names Shayna Strom as interim president and CEO

CompetitionFamiliesInequality & MobilityLaborTax & Macroeconomics
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Equitable Growth’s 2022 grantees will study the drivers and effects of U.S. economic inequality

Inequality & Mobility
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American Sociological Association 2022 conference highlights inequities among vulnerable U.S. populations

Inequality & MobilityFamilies
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Factsheet: Is the U.S. economy in a recession, and how does recession dating work?

Inequality & MobilityTax & Macroeconomics
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NBER Summer Institute 2022 Round-up: Week 3

Inequality & MobilityTax & MacroeconomicsLabor
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NBER Summer Institute 2022 Round-up: Week 2

CompetitionInequality & MobilityTax & MacroeconomicsLabor
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Equitable Growth welcomes R. Jisung Park as a visiting scholar to examine economic impacts of climate change

Inequality & MobilityTax & Macroeconomics
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NBER Summer Institute 2022 Round-up: Week 1

Inequality & MobilityTax & MacroeconomicsLabor
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LERA 2022 participants focus on boosting worker power and uplifting marginalized voices in the U.S. workplace

Inequality & Mobility
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Equitable Growth to welcome visiting scholars as part of two American Economic Association summer programs

Inequality & Mobility
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Factsheet: Six frequently asked questions about schedule quality and Fair Workweek laws across the United States

FamiliesLabor
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Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management conference spotlights the value of diversity in U.S. policy analysis and research

Inequality & MobilityLabor
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The 2022 Midwest Economic Association annual meeting features key sessions on labor market monopsony

Inequality & MobilityLabor
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Revisiting timely research that explores U.S. intersectional wage gaps amid Women’s History Month

Inequality & MobilityFamiliesLabor
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ASSA 2022 Round-up: Day 3

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ASSA 2022 Round-up: Day 2

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ASSA 2022 Round-up: Day 1

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Recent Equitable Growth-funded research sheds light on the links between paid family and medical leave research and U.S. economic growth

FamiliesLabor
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Equitable Growth’s academic research and policy priorities shine through at Southern Economic Conference 2021

CompetitionLaborInequality & MobilityFamilies
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Equitable Growth joins NewDEAL Leaders to discuss child care in the post-pandemic U.S. economy

Families
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New research shows the importance of worker power for addressing U.S. wage inequality

LaborInequality & MobilityFamilies
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Equitable Growth launches A Visual Economy: Our newest tool to showcase thousands of visuals on economic inequality and growth

Inequality & Mobility
Equitable Recovery

Dispatch from EconCon 2021: Addressing racial and gender stratification in the U.S. economy is key to an equitable and sustainable recovery

Inequality & MobilityFamilies
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Supporting American Indian tribal sovereignty boosts economic outcomes for those on reservation lands

Inequality & MobilityLabor
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Equitable Growth welcomes two new Dissertation Scholars for 2021–22 academic year

FamiliesInequality & Mobility
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The value of racial and gender diversity at the Federal Reserve

Inequality & MobilityLaborTax & Macroeconomics
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Factsheet: What the research says about the economics of income support programs

Inequality & MobilityFamilies
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Factsheet: What the research says about the economics of early care and education

FamiliesInequality & Mobility
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Equitable Growth announces record $1.39 million in research grants for scholars examining economic inequality and growth

CompetitionInequality & MobilityLabor
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NBER Summer Institute 2021 Round-up: Week 3

LaborInequality & MobilityFamilies
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What recent data-driven research can tell policymakers about Black Women’s Equal Pay Day

Inequality & MobilityLabor
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NBER Summer Institute 2021 Round-up: Week 2

CompetitionLaborTax & MacroeconomicsInequality & Mobility
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NBER Summer Institute 2021 Round-up: Week 1

Inequality & MobilityTax & MacroeconomicsLabor
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Climate change among many issues discussed at annual Western Economic Association International conference

Inequality & MobilityFamiliesTax & Macroeconomics
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How federal place-conscious policies can work to reduce regional inequality in the United States

Inequality & MobilityLabor
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Weekend reading: Race and police use of force in the United States edition

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Father’s Day highlights why paid paternity leave should be part of all U.S. parental leave policies

Families
Equitable Recovery

The future of work and worker power post-COVID a key topic at the 2021 Labor and Employment Relations Association annual conference

LaborCompetitionInequality & Mobility
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Weekend reading: The impact of COVID-19 relief packages on the U.S. economy and workforce edition

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Weekend reading: Studying the experiences of AANHPI communities in the United States edition

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Weekend reading: The U.S. anti-austerity tradition edition

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Weekend reading: Tax evasion in the United States edition

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Weekend reading: Jobs and unemployment more than a year into the coronavirus recession edition

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Weekend reading: We’ve got the evidence for those big plans edition

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Equitable Growth’s second annual academic research report

Inequality & Mobility
Equitable Recovery

Overheating is not a concern for the U.S. economy

Tax & Macroeconomics
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TOPICS: Fiscal Policy
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Weekend reading: Inequities in U.S. taxation and homeownership edition

Equitable Recovery

Factsheet: What does the research say about the economics of paid leave?

FamiliesLabor
TOPICS: Health, Paid Leave
Equitable Recovery

Factsheet: What does the research say about care infrastructure?

FamiliesLabor
Equitable Recovery

Investing in an equitable future

Tax & Macroeconomics
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TOPICS: Fiscal Policy
Executive action to spur equitable growth

Executive actions to improve U.S. economic measurements

Inequality & Mobility
Executive action to spur equitable growth

Executive actions to combat wage theft against U.S. workers

Labor
Executive action to spur equitable growth

Executive actions to reform the cost-benefit analysis of U.S. tax regulations

Tax & Macroeconomics
Executive action to spur equitable growth

Executive actions to coordinate antitrust and competition policies across the federal government

Competition
Executive action to spur equitable growth

Executive actions to coordinate federal countercyclical regulatory policy

Inequality & MobilityFamiliesTax & Macroeconomics
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ASSA Round-up: Day 3

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ASSA Round-up: Day 2

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ASSA Round-up: Day 1

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Lisa Cook, Hilary Hoynes, and Atif Mian join Equitable Growth Steering Committee

Inequality & Mobility
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Equitable Growth’s Amanda Fischer joins others in comment letter to antitrust regulator on harmful U.S. banking consolidation

CompetitionInequality & Mobility
Coronavirus Recession

Factsheet: New study shows that emergency paid sick leave reduced COVID-19 infections in the United States

FamiliesLabor
Vision 2020

Revamping U.S. small business rescue programs amid the coronavirus recession

Tax & MacroeconomicsInequality & MobilityLabor
Vision 2020

Combating the market power of U.S. corporations over workers and consumers

CompetitionInequality & MobilityLabor
Vision 2020

Taxing wealth and investment income in the United States

Tax & MacroeconomicsInequality & Mobility
Vision 2020

Achieving universal paid family and medical leave in the United States

FamiliesTax & MacroeconomicsLabor
Vision 2020

Building worker power in the United States

LaborInequality & MobilityTax & Macroeconomics
Vision 2020

Improving automatic stabilizers to combat U.S. economic recessions

Tax & Macroeconomics
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TOPICS: Fiscal Policy
Vision 2020

Addressing the U.S. racial economic mobility and inequality divides

Inequality & Mobility
Vision 2020

Reforming Unemployment Insurance across the United States

LaborInequality & MobilityTax & Macroeconomics
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Weekend reading: The Unemployment Insurance benefits are not the work disincentive some claim they are edition

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Factsheet: Unemployment Insurance and why the effect of work disincentives is greatly overstated amid the coronavirus recession

Labor
Vision 2020

Experts discuss transformative ideas for 2020 U.S. economic policy debate at Vision 2020 event

Inequality & MobilityLaborTax & Macroeconomics
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Elevating economic research on racist violence and exclusion in the United States

Inequality & Mobility
Coronavirus Recession

One year later: Recession Ready and the coronavirus recession

Inequality & MobilityFamiliesTax & MacroeconomicsLabor
Coronavirus Recession

Coronavirus recession: How to get the U.S. economy back on track

Tax & MacroeconomicsInequality & MobilityLabor
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Factsheet: How strong unions can restore workers’ bargaining power

Labor
Coronavirus Recession

The latest research on the public health and economic costs and benefits of containing the coronavirus pandemic

Inequality & MobilityTax & Macroeconomics
Coronavirus Recession

Paid caregiving leave: A missing piece in the U.S. social insurance system

FamiliesLabor
Coronavirus Recession

What does the research say about paid family and medical leave policy design options in the United States?

FamiliesLabor
Coronavirus Recession

What is paid medical leave and how does it support U.S. workers’ health and the U.S. economy?

FamiliesLabor
Coronavirus Recession

Economic experts propose policy responses to coronavirus recession

LaborTax & MacroeconomicsFamilies
Coronavirus Recession

In joint letter, Equitable Growth asks Congress to ‘stanch economic bleeding’ in COVID-19 legislative package

Tax & MacroeconomicsFamiliesInequality & MobilityLabor
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Weekend reading: Working to close racial gaps in economics, the workforce, and education edition

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Weekend reading: Vision 2020 release edition

Vision 2020

Equitable Growth introduces book of innovative policy ideas for 2020

CompetitionInequality & MobilityLabor
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Weekend reading: Addressing racial gaps across the economy edition

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Weekend reading: State of the Union’s inequality edition

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The State of the Union speech should not ignore inequality that obstructs, subverts, and distorts the U.S. economy

Inequality & Mobility
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Weekend reading: Studying the Fed edition

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Weekend reading: Closing racial economics gaps and reducing inequality edition

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President and CEO Heather Boushey shares insights on inequality and growth via Medium

Inequality & Mobility
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What does the research say about the FAMILY Act provisions?

FamiliesLabor
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Persistent economic gaps frustrate the dream of racial economic equality in the United States

Inequality & Mobility
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Weekend reading: Wages and work edition

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Weekend reading: Happy New Year edition

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ASSA Round-up: Day 3

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ASSA Round-up: Day 2

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ASSA Round-up: Day 1

CompetitionFamiliesInequality & MobilityLaborTax & Macroeconomics
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Inequality and economic growth

Inequality & Mobility
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Equitable Growth’s Michael Kades co-authors AARP amicus brief in Impax Laboratories, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission court case

Competition
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Weekend reading: New measures of GDP edition

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Nobel laureates, former Fed chair, two former CEA chairs–58 scholars endorse the Measuring Real Income Growth Act of 2019

Inequality & Mobility
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TOPICS: GDP 2.0
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Weekend reading: “Inequality runs deep” edition

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Equitable Growth joins 10 other organizations in endorsing the Measuring Real Income Growth Act

Inequality & Mobility
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Weekend reading: “Jobs Day” edition

Vision 2020

Equitable Growth’s Vision 2020 book of essays on economic inequality and growth will inform 2020 policy debate

Inequality & Mobility
Vision 2020

Vision 2020 conference probes inequality’s effects on the U.S. economy and policy changes to counteract them

Tax & Macroeconomics
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Weekend reading: ‘OK, boomer’ edition

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Weekend reading: The United States of Inequality edition

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Weekend reading: Equitable Growth’s 2020 Request for Proposals edition

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Weekend reading: Vision 2020 edition

Vision 2020

Equitable Growth hosts Vision 2020 Conference in Washington, highlighting connection between economic inequality and growth

Tax & Macroeconomics
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Weekend reading: GDP 2.0 edition

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Equitable Growth CEO Talks All Things Economic Inequality in Recent Reddit “Ask Me Anything” series

Inequality & Mobility
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Weekend reading: Worker scheduling practices edition

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Weekend reading: Inequality and taxes edition

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Weekend reading: “Competition and employment” edition

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Weekend reading: “ Increasing public investment” edition

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Weekend reading: “The state of antitrust” edition

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Weekend reading: the “U.S. Census Bureau data” edition

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Weekend reading: “Declining Worker Power” edition

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Weekend reading: “Labor Day” edition

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Weekend reading: “Corporate Responsibility” edition 

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Weekend reading: “Recession Ready?” edition

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Weekend reading: “Global inequality” edition

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Weekend reading: “Five hours, twenty candidates, lots of plans” edition

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Washington Center for Equitable Growth Unionizes with Nonprofit Professional Employees Union

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For Father’s Day: Evidence from three countries on the importance of paid parental leave for new dads

FamiliesLabor
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Statement on the passing of our founding funder, Herb Sandler

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Evolving worker and management attitudes toward labor organizations: The Equitable Growth context

Labor
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Gender wage inequality in the United States: Causes and solutions to improve family well-being and economic growth

Inequality & MobilityFamiliesLabor
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Remembrance: Alan Krueger

Labor
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Equitable Growth’s history of focusing on women’s role in the economy: A review

Labor
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Paid family and medical leave in the United States: A data agenda for practitioners

FamiliesInequality & MobilityLabor
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Seven graphs to consider while watching the State of the Union address

Inequality & Mobility
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Equitable Growth’s Top 12 of 2018

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Remembrance: Scholar Devah Pager (1972–2018)

Inequality & MobilityLabor
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Let’s not waste bipartisan support for paid family leave in Congress

FamiliesLabor
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The Washington Center for Equitable Growth applauds the introduction of the “Measuring Real Income Growth Act of 2018”

Inequality & Mobility
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TOPICS: GDP 2.0
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Equitable Growth comments to the Federal Trade Commission on the agency’s proposed competition hearings

Competition
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Equitable Growth announces 2018 class of grantees

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Measuring U.S. economic growth

Inequality & Mobility
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TOPICS: GDP 2.0
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How the Tax Act increases inequality and reduces well-being for most Americans

Tax & Macroeconomics
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From the Urban Institute: “Place and Opportunity”

Inequality & Mobility
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Karen Dynan joins Equitable Growth Steering Committee

Tax & Macroeconomics
TOPICS: Monetary Policy
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The surprisingly constant “housing wealth effect” in the United States

Tax & Macroeconomics
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TOPICS: Credit & Debt
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Janet Yellen joins Equitable Growth Steering Committee

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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: May 2018 Report Edition

Inequality & MobilityLabor
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Examining the links between rising wage inequality and the decline of unions

Inequality & MobilityLabor
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Factsheet: Gender wage inequality in the United States and what to do about it

LaborInequality & Mobility
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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: March 2018 Report Edition

Inequality & MobilityLabor
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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: February 2018 Report Edition

Inequality & MobilityLabor
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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: January 2018 Report Edition

Inequality & MobilityLabor
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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: December 2017 Report Edition

Inequality & MobilityLabor
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Heather Boushey: SiriusXM Radio interview about economic inequality and the new tax law

Inequality & MobilityTax & Macroeconomics
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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: November 2017 Report Edition

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U.S. corporate tax cuts and wage growth

LaborTax & Macroeconomics
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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: October 2017 Report Edition

Inequality & MobilityLabor
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Tax Reform and Equitable Growth

Tax & Macroeconomics
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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: September 2017 Report Edition

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Fact sheet: Occupational segregation in the United States

Inequality & Mobility
TOPICS: 1
TOPICS: Gender
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Boushey testifies before congressional forum

Inequality & MobilityFamilies
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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: August 2017 Report Edition

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Issue brief: Alleviating financial distress and its economic consequences in the United States

Tax & Macroeconomics
TOPICS: 1
TOPICS: Credit & Debt
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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: July 2017 Report Edition

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Issue Brief: A communications oligopoly on steroids

Competition
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Must-Read: Washington Center for Equitable Growth announces fourth round of annual grantmaking, bringing total awards to nearly $3 million

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Issue brief: U.S. antitrust and competition policy amid the new merger wave

Competition
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Making antitrust work for the 21st century

Competition
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Explaining the “What is equitable growth?” essay series

Inequality & Mobility
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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: June 2017 Report Edition

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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: May 2017 Report Edition

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After Piketty panel at the Graduate Center, CUNY (video)

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The importance of raising the minimum wage to boost broad-based U.S. economic growth

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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: April 2017 Report Edition

Inequality & MobilityLabor
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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: March 2017 Report Edition

Inequality & MobilityLabor
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TOPICS: GDP 2.0
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Must-Read: Heather Boushey: The Appealing Logic That Underlies Trump’s Economic Ideas

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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: February 2017 Report Edition

Inequality & MobilityLabor
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TOPICS: GDP 2.0
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Seven important U.S. economic trends to consider before President Trump’s first address to Congress

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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: January 2017 Report Edition

Inequality & MobilityLabor
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TOPICS: GDP 2.0
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Can we make growth more inclusive? A trans-Atlantic perspective

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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: December 2016 Report Edition

Inequality & MobilityLabor
TOPICS: 1
TOPICS: GDP 2.0
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Are we better off than our parents?

The data that underscores the fading “American dream”

Inequality & MobilityFamilies
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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: November 2016 Report Edition

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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: October 2016 Report Edition

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Solutions to Income Volatility: A Discussion with Elisabeth Jacobs

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Delivering equitable growth: strategies for the next Administration

Tax & MacroeconomicsFamiliesCompetitionInequality & MobilityLabor
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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: September 2016 Report Edition

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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: August 2016 Report Edition

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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: July 2016 Report Edition

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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: June 2016 Report Edition

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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: May 2016 Report Edition

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Our second set of Equitable Growth working papers

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Equitable Growth’s new working paper series

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Fact sheet: What do we know about economic inequality and growth?

Inequality & Mobility

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