Sam Wylde - Equitable Growth

Competition
Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how strong competition among U.S. businesses affects inequality and broad-based economic growth. More
- Topics:
- Anticompetitive Conduct
- Antitrust Enforcement
- 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
- Topics:
- Childcare & Early Education
- Economic Wellbeing
- Health
- K-12
- Post-secondary Education
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
- Topics:
- 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
- Topics:
- AI, tech, & the economy
- Bargaining Power
- Job Mobility
- Minimum Wage
- Monopsony
- Paid Leave
- Pay Equity
- Schedule Stability
- Unemployment Insurance
- Wage Stagnation
Tax & Macroeconomics
Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how tax and macroeconomic policies can promote stable and broad-based economic growth. More
- Topics:
- Business Taxation
- Climate
- Credit & Debt
- Fiscal Policy
- Individual Taxation
- Monetary Policy
- Taxes, Inequality & Growth

Sam Wylde is a Ph.D. student at the University of Illinois Chicago. He holds a B.A. in economics from Northwestern University.

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New research finds capital gains are highly concentrated and hardly taxed, underscoring widespread U.S. inequality

By Jacob Robbins, Cole Campbell, Sam Wylde,

February 26, 2025

February 26, 2025

Jacob Robbins, Cole Campbell, Sam Wylde,

Tax & Macroeconomics

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Individual Taxation

working paper

The distribution of capital gains in the United States

By Cole Campbell, Jacob Robbins, Sam Wylde,

February 26, 2025

February 26, 2025

Cole Campbell, Jacob Robbins, Sam Wylde,

Tax & Macroeconomics

TOPICS:

TOPICS: Individual Taxation

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