Andrew Fieldhouse

Federal Budget Policy Analyst

Areas of expertise
Tax and Budget Policy • Public Economics

Biography

Andrew Fieldhouse joined the Economic Policy Institute in June 2010 to work on fiscal policy and progressive budget reform. Andrew also works as a federal budget policy analyst for The Century Foundation. He previously worked as an assistant budget analyst and research assistant with the House Budget Committee. His areas of research and interest include federal tax and budget policy, political economy, public investment, stabilization policy, and macroeconomics. Andrew has provided frequent commentary on budget policy debates and the impact of fiscal policy on the economic recovery. He has appeared as a guest on CNN, PBS Nightly Business Report, C-SPAN, CNBC, Fox News, Fox Business News, and the BBC, as well as NPR affiliates.

Education
B.A. Economics and Political Science, Swarthmore College

Publications by Andrew Fieldhouse

Blog

May 2, 2013 | Winning the intellectual debate on austerity while losing the policy debate
May 1, 2013 | Building a Tax Code for Today
April 30, 2013 | Reinhart and Rogoff couldn’t justify austerity before it was debunked
April 15, 2013 | Tax Day 2013: For the vast major, it’s all about the expired payroll tax cut
April 15, 2013 | How High Should Top Income Tax Rates Be? Getting the Fight Right
April 12, 2013 | The Obama budget’s misguidedly lower revenue target
April 4, 2013 | No, New Tax Cuts Will Not Pay for Themselves
March 26, 2013 | Senate Democratic budget overly focused on deficit reduction
March 22, 2013 | Aggressively targeting a full recovery is the least risky thing you can do: Back to Work Budget edition
March 18, 2013 | House Democratic budget would also boost employment
March 12, 2013 | Ryan proposes another path to fewer jobs and slower growth
Feb. 28, 2013 | Sequestration was never about fiscal responsibility
Feb. 28, 2013 | GOP sequester position derails recovery (again)
Feb. 5, 2013 | The Progressive Caucus’s sensible approach to sequestration: Prioritizing jobs and growth
Jan. 25, 2013 | When and what kind of deficit reduction matters most: The danger of aggressive 10-year deficit targets in the current budget debate
Jan. 24, 2013 | The importance of revenue revisited: Minimizing the drag of austerity
Jan. 18, 2013 | The congressional GOP has smothered a more rapid economic recovery
Jan. 3, 2013 | At best, budget deal suggests decelerating anemic growth, labor market deterioration
Dec. 21, 2012 | Boehner’s ‘Plan B’ would result in an austerity-induced recession
Nov. 30, 2012 | Obama’s opening bid is both familiar and sound
Nov. 28, 2012 | True deficit hawks would be worried with jobs and recovery first
Nov. 19, 2012 | Since when do we congratulate ourselves just for not going over a cliff?
Nov. 15, 2012 | Five job creation policies for handling the fiscal obstacle course and slowing deficit reduction
Nov. 15, 2012 | Recommendations for successfully navigating the fiscal obstacle course
Nov. 13, 2012 | Boehner’s talking about accelerating deficit reduction, not avoiding the fiscal obstacle course
Nov. 8, 2012 | What does President Obama’s re-election mean for the ‘fiscal cliff?’
Nov. 5, 2012 | Enacting a ‘grand bargain’ doesn’t equate to navigating the fiscal obstacle course
Nov. 2, 2012 | GOP senators to Congressional Research Service: Research? We don’t need no stinking research
Oct. 24, 2012 | How revenue-neutrality would change the employment impact of Romney’s budget plan
Oct. 23, 2012 | Schumer’s spot on: 1986 is the wrong model for tax reform
Oct. 17, 2012 | False equivalence in candidates’ budgetary unknowns
Oct. 11, 2012 | Romney budget hides nearly $9 trillion of painful consequences
Oct. 5, 2012 | Robert Samuelson is drinking Mitt Romney’s tax cut Kool-Aid
Oct. 4, 2012 | Even more mathematically impossible tax promises
Oct. 3, 2012 | The payroll tax cut is likely to expire—let’s replace it with better stimulus
Sept. 26, 2012 | Obama’s budget policies would be better for growth than Romney’s
Sept. 19, 2012 | Romney’s regressive socioeconomic philosophy is nothing new
Sept. 18, 2012 | No, we’re nowhere close to the limits of effective fiscal stimulus
Sept. 10, 2012 | Tax cuts, and debt, and arithmetic: Oh my!
Sept. 6, 2012 | Would full passage of Obama’s Jobs Act have added another million jobs?
Aug. 29, 2012 | Paul Ryan is not (and has never been) a deficit hawk
Aug. 14, 2012 | Lessons from the French: It’s time to tax high-frequency trading
Aug. 13, 2012 | What a Romney-Ryan budget would mean for Americans
July 6, 2012 | On health care reform, Mitt Romney knows better
June 28, 2012 | The efficiencies of publicly provided health care, revisited
June 18, 2012 | Failure to stimulate recovery is costing trillions in lost national income
June 8, 2012 | Update to yesterday’s blog post “Fiscal hawks’ double standard for Social Security cuts vs. tax cuts”
June 7, 2012 | Fiscal hawks’ double standard for Social Security cuts vs. tax cuts
June 6, 2012 | Not all debt is created equal, David Brooks
May 22, 2012 | Don’t let Congress fast-track another tax cut
May 17, 2012 | Speaker Boehner pledges to hijack the debt ceiling and jeopardize recovery again
May 11, 2012 | Larry Summers shrewdly reframes tax simplification
May 4, 2012 | Underemployment isn’t a ‘myth’ for recent college grads
May 3, 2012 | What world of fiscal policy is Michael Gerson inhabiting?
April 24, 2012 | Sequestration will slow the recovery and job growth, period
April 24, 2012 | Romney opposes the Buffett Rule? Why would that be?
April 20, 2012 | Why resurrect budget dinosaurs and bad economic policy?
April 17, 2012 | With tax day upon us, file these numbers away
April 12, 2012 | Since when does each and every budget policy proposal have to singlehandedly eliminate the deficit?
April 3, 2012 | Nothing screams fiscal charlatan like a $4.5 trillion tax cut financed by gimmicks
March 28, 2012 | Congressional Progressive Caucus budget would boost employment by millions—unlike the Ryan budget
March 8, 2012 | A jobs bill in substance or acronym only?
March 7, 2012 | Mankiw swings and misses in defense of Romney’s carried interest
Feb. 27, 2012 | Rein in the debt tax preference, raise some revenue
Feb. 24, 2012 | Where is the ‘shared sacrifice’ in this framework for corporate tax reform?
Feb. 22, 2012 | Coordinated investment as an alternative to doubling down on austerity’s failure
Feb. 16, 2012 | The president’s jobs package would indeed create jobs
Feb. 13, 2012 | President Obama’s FY 2013 budget: The Buffett Rule and progressive tax reform
Feb. 7, 2012 | The tax expenditure of the 1%
Feb. 2, 2012 | Bush-era tax cuts remain the obstacle to fiscal sustainability
Jan. 30, 2012 | Massive tax cuts don’t square with professed concerns about public debt
Jan. 24, 2012 | Mitch Daniels, deficit peacock
Jan. 20, 2012 | You can’t measure tax progressivity while ignoring income trends
Jan. 10, 2012 | Shouldn’t everyone be listening to Nouriel Roubini?
Jan. 6, 2012 | Capping federal spending at 18% of GDP is still infeasible
Dec. 23, 2011 | Worst economic idea of the year?
Dec. 22, 2011 | WSJ swings and misses on tax policy
Dec. 13, 2011 | Voodoo economics playbook: Gingrich goes all in
Dec. 13, 2011 | Congressional Progressive Caucus picks up where Obama’s speech left off
Dec. 8, 2011 | Eliminating Medicare epitomizes penny wise, pound foolish budgeting (it’s bad health policy, too)
Dec. 7, 2011 | Supply-side’s abject failure
Nov. 29, 2011 | Ryan’s budget proposals belie concerns about inequality
Nov. 10, 2011 | Fiscal responsibility demands addressing the economic crisis at hand, not the imaginary one
Nov. 8, 2011 | Senate compromise falls woefully short of a jobs plan
Nov. 1, 2011 | Rick Perry’s reverse Robin Hood tax plan
Oct. 21, 2011 | Cantor’s strange way of caring about inequality
Oct. 19, 2011 | Plutocrats win big with ‘999,’ while 84 percent of households get hosed
Oct. 18, 2011 | Uh-oh, the peasants are getting angry… time to lie to them about taxes!
Oct. 14, 2011 | Big recession, big budget deficits
Oct. 11, 2011 | Is Grover’s pledge losing gravitas?
Oct. 5, 2011 | Eric Cantor cares about poverty?
Sept. 29, 2011 | Nine-nine-nine nonsense
Sept. 21, 2011 | Another repatriation holiday will decrease employment and revenue
Sept. 20, 2011 | Enamored with debt numerology
Sept. 19, 2011 | Five reasons for progressives to like Obama’s Super Committee proposal
Sept. 15, 2011 | More revenue should be raised from those at the top, not at the bottom
Sept. 14, 2011 | Paying for job creation the right way

Report

May 15, 2013 | Broadening the tax base and raising top rates are complements, not substitutes: 1986-style tax reform is a flawed template
April 30, 2013 | Dangerous targets: Why setting a specific deficit reduction target would worsen the economic and fiscal situation
April 2, 2013 | A review of the economic research on the effects of raising ordinary income tax rates: Higher revenue, unchanged growth, and uncertain but potentially large reductions in the growth of inequality
March 13, 2013 | The ‘Back to Work’ budget: Analysis of the Congressional Progressive Caucus budget for fiscal year 2014
Feb. 14, 2013 | From free-fall to stagnation: Five years after the start of the Great Recession, extraordinary policy measures are still needed, but are not forthcoming
Nov. 16, 2012 | Investing in America’s economy: A budget blueprint for economic recovery
Nov. 14, 2012 | Navigating the fiscal obstacle course: Supporting job creation with savings from ending the upper-income Bush-era tax cuts
Sept. 26, 2012 | Who would promote job growth most in the near term?: Macroeconomic impacts of the Obama and Romney budget proposals
Sept. 18, 2012 | A fiscal obstacle course, not a cliff: Economic impacts of expiring tax cuts and impending spending cuts, and policy recommendations
May 17, 2012 | The Ryan budget versus the Budget for All: Exacerbating versus alleviating our serious economic challenges
March 28, 2012 | The Budget for All: A technical report on the Congressional Progressive Caucus budget for fiscal year 2013
Dec. 13, 2011 | The Restore the American Dream for the 99% Act: An analysis of job-creation provisions
Oct. 13, 2011 | For Joint Select Committee, many good options: Progressive revenue proposals would narrow budget gap by trillions
Sept. 2, 2011 | Putting America back to work: Policies for job creation and stronger economic growth
Aug. 5, 2011 | The facts support raising revenues from the highest-income households
Aug. 4, 2011 | Debt ceiling deal threatens jobs, economic growth
July 28, 2011 | A bigger and better economic boost: Replace the payroll tax cut with a targeted tax rebate
June 22, 2011 | Why spending caps are poor policy: Understanding the costs and constraints of capping spending as a share of the economy
June 1, 2011 | Tenth Anniversary of the Bush-era Tax Cuts
April 13, 2011 | All would suffer from Chairman Ryan’s budget cuts
April 13, 2011 | The People’s Budget: A technical analysis
April 7, 2011 | Ryan’s budget would undermine economic security for millions
April 6, 2011 | Cutting spending and burning the middle class
Jan. 20, 2011 | Paul Ryan’s Plan for Millionaires’ Gain and Middle-Class Pain
Nov. 16, 2010 | What Would You Do With $67 Billion?
Sept. 23, 2010 | How to Lose Over a Million Jobs: Sacrifice Investments to Cut Taxes for the Rich

Economic snapshot

April 18, 2013 | Taxes are rising – but let’s remember which ones
Feb. 21, 2013 | Policymakers shouldn’t assume that a full recovery is four years away (and always will be)
April 11, 2012 | Buffett Rule needed to restore tax fairness
Feb. 16, 2012 | President’s jobs package would create well over one million jobs in 2012
Dec. 1, 2011 | Inaction on payroll tax cut would decrease an average family’s income by $920
Aug. 10, 2011 | Highest-income households can afford to pay more in taxes
June 4, 2011 | The Bush Tax Cuts Disproportionately Benefitted the Wealthy
March 29, 2011 | Giving to the rich and taking from the poor
Nov. 18, 2009 | State and local budget shortfalls will cause heavy drag on growth

Commentary

April 11, 2013 | How High Should Top Income Tax Rates Be? (Hint, Much Higher)
March 7, 2013 | Forget Spending Cuts, the U.S. Economy Really Needs a $2 Trillion Stimulus
Dec. 14, 2012 | Restore full employment with a massive infrastructure program
Nov. 27, 2012 | Don’t call it a fiscal cliff
Sept. 19, 2012 | Avoiding a double-dip recession doesn’t require extending the Bush tax cuts
May 21, 2012 | The Ryan Budget fails to effectively address economic challenges, unlike the Budget for All
March 21, 2012 | President Obama’s policies revived the economy
Feb. 10, 2012 | Tax reform should raise more revenue and restore greater progressivity
Jan. 31, 2012 | The ~~Buffett~~ Romney Rule
Dec. 2, 2011 | Paying for a jobs bill by cutting federal jobs?
Sept. 26, 2011 | In favor of progressive taxation and a balanced approach to budgeting
July 29, 2011 | It’s still the economy, Congress, not the concocted debt ceiling crisis
June 27, 2011 | Grants to state and local governments would boost employment
June 23, 2011 | More economic support is desperately needed
June 13, 2011 | Radical Republican plan could cause double-dip recession
June 6, 2011 | Ten years later, the Bush tax cuts remain unfair, ineffective, and expensive
June 3, 2011 | House 18% spending cap is as bad and infeasible a policy as the Senate’s
June 2, 2011 | Norquist’s Taxpayer Protection Pledge is the height of fiscal irresponsibility
May 4, 2011 | Opposing view: Rich take home more, pay less
March 31, 2011 | An 18% spending cap is not just bad policy, it’s simply not feasible
March 8, 2011 | Budgeting tradeoffs
Feb. 14, 2011 | President Obama’s 2012 budget: An analysis of tax policies
Feb. 7, 2011 | Paul Ryan’s budget: unnecessary pain with no long-term gain
Jan. 24, 2011 | Welcome to Paul Ryan’s House – and budget
Jan. 21, 2011 | Job-Killing Hypocrisy
Dec. 15, 2010 | Any payroll tax cut should be designed not to hurt lower-income workers
Nov. 16, 2010 | Fiscal commissioners’ proposal would cost millions of jobs
Nov. 10, 2010 | Peterson-Pew Commission’s debt target is misguided, dangerous
Aug. 17, 2010 | Let the tax cuts for the rich expire

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Andrew Fieldhouse

Federal Budget Policy Analyst

Publications by Andrew Fieldhouse

Blog

May 2, 2013 | Winning the intellectual debate on austerity while losing the policy debate

May 1, 2013 | Building a Tax Code for Today

April 30, 2013 | Reinhart and Rogoff couldn’t justify austerity before it was debunked

April 15, 2013 | Tax Day 2013: For the vast major, it’s all about the expired payroll tax cut

April 15, 2013 | How High Should Top Income Tax Rates Be? Getting the Fight Right

April 12, 2013 | The Obama budget’s misguidedly lower revenue target

April 4, 2013 | No, New Tax Cuts Will Not Pay for Themselves

March 26, 2013 | Senate Democratic budget overly focused on deficit reduction

March 22, 2013 | Aggressively targeting a full recovery is the least risky thing you can do: Back to Work Budget edition

March 18, 2013 | House Democratic budget would also boost employment

March 12, 2013 | Ryan proposes another path to fewer jobs and slower growth

Feb. 28, 2013 | Sequestration was never about fiscal responsibility

Feb. 28, 2013 | GOP sequester position derails recovery (again)

Feb. 5, 2013 | The Progressive Caucus’s sensible approach to sequestration: Prioritizing jobs and growth

Jan. 25, 2013 | When and what kind of deficit reduction matters most: The danger of aggressive 10-year deficit targets in the current budget debate

Jan. 24, 2013 | The importance of revenue revisited: Minimizing the drag of austerity

Jan. 18, 2013 | The congressional GOP has smothered a more rapid economic recovery

Jan. 3, 2013 | At best, budget deal suggests decelerating anemic growth, labor market deterioration

Dec. 21, 2012 | Boehner’s ‘Plan B’ would result in an austerity-induced recession

Nov. 30, 2012 | Obama’s opening bid is both familiar and sound

Nov. 28, 2012 | True deficit hawks would be worried with jobs and recovery first

Nov. 19, 2012 | Since when do we congratulate ourselves just for not going over a cliff?

Nov. 15, 2012 | Five job creation policies for handling the fiscal obstacle course and slowing deficit reduction

Nov. 15, 2012 | Recommendations for successfully navigating the fiscal obstacle course

Nov. 13, 2012 | Boehner’s talking about accelerating deficit reduction, not avoiding the fiscal obstacle course

Nov. 8, 2012 | What does President Obama’s re-election mean for the ‘fiscal cliff?’

Nov. 5, 2012 | Enacting a ‘grand bargain’ doesn’t equate to navigating the fiscal obstacle course

Nov. 2, 2012 | GOP senators to Congressional Research Service: Research? We don’t need no stinking research

Oct. 24, 2012 | How revenue-neutrality would change the employment impact of Romney’s budget plan

Oct. 23, 2012 | Schumer’s spot on: 1986 is the wrong model for tax reform

Oct. 17, 2012 | False equivalence in candidates’ budgetary unknowns

Oct. 11, 2012 | Romney budget hides nearly $9 trillion of painful consequences

Oct. 5, 2012 | Robert Samuelson is drinking Mitt Romney’s tax cut Kool-Aid

Oct. 4, 2012 | Even more mathematically impossible tax promises

Oct. 3, 2012 | The payroll tax cut is likely to expire—let’s replace it with better stimulus

Sept. 26, 2012 | Obama’s budget policies would be better for growth than Romney’s

Sept. 19, 2012 | Romney’s regressive socioeconomic philosophy is nothing new

Sept. 18, 2012 | No, we’re nowhere close to the limits of effective fiscal stimulus

Sept. 10, 2012 | Tax cuts, and debt, and arithmetic: Oh my!

Sept. 6, 2012 | Would full passage of Obama’s Jobs Act have added another million jobs?

Aug. 29, 2012 | Paul Ryan is not (and has never been) a deficit hawk

Aug. 14, 2012 | Lessons from the French: It’s time to tax high-frequency trading

Aug. 13, 2012 | What a Romney-Ryan budget would mean for Americans

July 6, 2012 | On health care reform, Mitt Romney knows better

June 28, 2012 | The efficiencies of publicly provided health care, revisited

June 18, 2012 | Failure to stimulate recovery is costing trillions in lost national income

June 8, 2012 | Update to yesterday’s blog post “Fiscal hawks’ double standard for Social Security cuts vs. tax cuts”

June 7, 2012 | Fiscal hawks’ double standard for Social Security cuts vs. tax cuts

June 6, 2012 | Not all debt is created equal, David Brooks

May 22, 2012 | Don’t let Congress fast-track another tax cut

May 17, 2012 | Speaker Boehner pledges to hijack the debt ceiling and jeopardize recovery again

May 11, 2012 | Larry Summers shrewdly reframes tax simplification

May 4, 2012 | Underemployment isn’t a ‘myth’ for recent college grads

May 3, 2012 | What world of fiscal policy is Michael Gerson inhabiting?

April 24, 2012 | Sequestration will slow the recovery and job growth, period

April 24, 2012 | Romney opposes the Buffett Rule? Why would that be?

April 20, 2012 | Why resurrect budget dinosaurs and bad economic policy?

April 17, 2012 | With tax day upon us, file these numbers away

April 12, 2012 | Since when does each and every budget policy proposal have to singlehandedly eliminate the deficit?

April 3, 2012 | Nothing screams fiscal charlatan like a $4.5 trillion tax cut financed by gimmicks

March 28, 2012 | Congressional Progressive Caucus budget would boost employment by millions—unlike the Ryan budget

March 8, 2012 | A jobs bill in substance or acronym only?

March 7, 2012 | Mankiw swings and misses in defense of Romney’s carried interest

Feb. 27, 2012 | Rein in the debt tax preference, raise some revenue

Feb. 24, 2012 | Where is the ‘shared sacrifice’ in this framework for corporate tax reform?

Feb. 22, 2012 | Coordinated investment as an alternative to doubling down on austerity’s failure

Feb. 16, 2012 | The president’s jobs package would indeed create jobs

Feb. 13, 2012 | President Obama’s FY 2013 budget: The Buffett Rule and progressive tax reform

Feb. 7, 2012 | The tax expenditure of the 1%

Feb. 2, 2012 | Bush-era tax cuts remain the obstacle to fiscal sustainability

Jan. 30, 2012 | Massive tax cuts don’t square with professed concerns about public debt

Jan. 24, 2012 | Mitch Daniels, deficit peacock

Jan. 20, 2012 | You can’t measure tax progressivity while ignoring income trends

Jan. 10, 2012 | Shouldn’t everyone be listening to Nouriel Roubini?

Jan. 6, 2012 | Capping federal spending at 18% of GDP is still infeasible

Dec. 23, 2011 | Worst economic idea of the year?