All work on this topic

• The Unfinished March: An Overview

  June 18, 2013 | By Algernon Austin | Report

• Rising Income Inequality and the Role of Shifting Market-Income Distribution, Tax Burdens, and Tax Rates

  June 14, 2013 | By Andrew Fieldhouse | Report

• Racial Segregation and Black Student Achievement

  June 13, 2013 | By Richard Rothstein | Report

• Why the Bipartisan Commitment to Public Investment Should Go Beyond Mere Rhetoric

  June 13, 2013 | By Josh Bivens | Report

• Financial Security of Elderly Americans at Risk: Proposed changes to Social Security and Medicare could make a majority of seniors ‘economically vulnerable’

  June 6, 2013 | By Elise Gould and David Cooper | Report

• Corporate tax rates and economic growth since 1947

  June 4, 2013 | By Thomas L. Hungerford | Report

• What do current federal funding levels in the wake of sequestration mean for state budgets?

  May 29, 2013 | By Rebecca Thiess | Report

• Ongoing joblessness

  May 21, 2013 | By Mary Gable and Doug Hall | Report

• Ongoing Joblessness in Michigan: Unemployment rate for African Americans tops in nation, more than double the state’s white rate

  May 16, 2013 | By Mary Gable and Douglas Hall | Report

• Ongoing Joblessness in Texas: African American and Hispanic unemployment rates far exceed the white unemployment rate in the state

  May 16, 2013 | By Mary Gable and Douglas Hall | Report

• Ongoing Joblessness in Mississippi: Unemployment rate for African Americans ninth in nation, more than double the state’s white rate

  May 16, 2013 | By Mary Gable | Report

• Ongoing Joblessness in New Mexico: Unemployment rate for Hispanics far exceeds the state’s white rate

  May 16, 2013 | By Mary Gable | Report

• Ongoing Joblessness in North Carolina: Unemployment rate for African Americans fourth in nation, more than double the state’s white rate

  May 16, 2013 | By Mary Gable and Douglas Hall | Report

• Broadening the tax base and raising top rates are complements, not substitutes: 1986-style tax reform is a flawed template

  May 15, 2013 | By Andrew Fieldhouse | Report

• Increased health care cost sharing works as intended: It burdens patients who need care the most

  May 8, 2013 | By Elise Gould | Report

• Dangerous targets: Why setting a specific deficit reduction target would worsen the economic and fiscal situation

  April 30, 2013 | By Ethan Pollack, Josh Bivens, and Andrew Fieldhouse | Report

• Guestworkers in the high-skill U.S. labor market: An analysis of supply, employment, and wage trends

  April 24, 2013 | By Hal Salzman, Daniel Kuehn, and B. Lindsay Lowell | Report

• Many options exist for raising revenue in a smart and progressive manner

  April 18, 2013 | By Rebecca Thiess | Report

• The Class of 2013: Young graduates still face dim job prospects

  April 10, 2013 | By Heidi Shierholz, Natalie Sabadish, and Nicholas Finio | Report

• 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

  April 2, 2013 | By Andrew Fieldhouse | Report

• Using standard models to benchmark the costs of globalization for American workers without a college degree

  March 22, 2013 | By Josh Bivens | Report

• Infrastructure investments and Latino and African American job creation

  March 14, 2013 | By Algernon Austin | Report

• The ‘Back to Work’ budget: Analysis of the Congressional Progressive Caucus budget for fiscal year 2014

  March 13, 2013 | By Andrew Fieldhouse and Rebecca Thiess | Report

• Raising the federal minimum wage to $10.10 would give working families, and the overall economy, a much-needed boost

  March 13, 2013 | By David Cooper and Doug Hall | Report

• Are foreign students the ‘best and brightest’?: Data and implications for immigration policy

  February 28, 2013 | By Norman Matloff | Report

• Unemployment rates are projected to remain high for whites, Latinos, and African Americans throughout 2013

  February 25, 2013 | By Algernon Austin | Report

• Declining value of the federal minimum wage is a major factor driving inequality

  February 21, 2013 | By Lawrence Mishel | Report

• From free-fall to stagnation: Five years after the start of the Great Recession, extraordinary policy measures are still needed, but are not forthcoming

  February 14, 2013 | By Josh Bivens, Andrew Fieldhouse, and Heidi Shierholz | Report

• Reducing U.S. trade deficits will generate a manufacturing-based recovery for the United States and Ohio: Ending currency manipulation by China and others is the place to start

  February 7, 2013 | By Robert E. Scott, Helene Jorgensen, and Doug Hall | Report

• Vast majority of wage earners are working harder, and for not much more: Trends in U.S. work hours and wages over 1979–2007

  January 30, 2013 | By Lawrence Mishel | Report