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‘The People’s Budget’: Analysis of the Congressional Progressive Caucus budget for fiscal year 2019
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The likely economic effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA): Higher incomes for the top, no discernible effect on wage growth for typical American workers
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The Trump tax cuts should be repealed, not made even worse by making individual tax cuts permanent
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Common tax ‘reform’ questions, answered: Why tax cuts for high-income households and corporations won’t help working families
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Corporate tax chartbook: How corporations rig the rules to dodge the taxes they owe
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The Fed’s crisis response: Helping corporations, yes, but mostly at the expense of financial predators
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Without federal aid, many state and local governments could make the same budget cuts that hampered the last economic recovery
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The coronavirus recession will become a long depression unless federal policymakers act now
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As economic forecasts worsen, up to $1 trillion in federal aid to state and local governments could be needed by the end of 2021
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A coronavirus recovery: How to ensure older workers fully participate
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The U.S. federal tax and spending system is the biggest tool to combat inequality, but it could do much more
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The Trump budget doesn’t spare seniors
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As investment continues to decline, the Trump tax cuts remain nothing but a handout to the rich
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On EITC Awareness Day, remember that the EITC and minimum wage work together to raise incomes
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Who’s paying now?: The explicit and implicit costs of the current early care and education system
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News from EPI › Year-end budget deal shouldn’t include temporary tax breaks for special interests
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How to make federal aid to state and local governments more transparent and effective: Boost direct grants and make them respond more automatically to downturns
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On its second anniversary, the TCJA has cut taxes for corporations, but nothing has trickled down
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Still terrible at two: The Trump tax act delivered big benefits to the rich and corporations but nearly none for working families
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Analyses claiming that taxes on millionaires and billionaires will slow economic growth are fundamentally flawed
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Bipartisan Senate budget bill could damage the economy during recessions
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The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act isn’t working and there’s no reason to think that will change
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Thinking seriously about what ‘fiscal responsibility’ should mean: Full employment and reduced inequality are the most important targets of fiscal policy
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Why is the economy so weak? Trade gets headlines, but it’s more about past Fed rate hikes and the TCJA’s waste
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It’s not trickling down: New data provides no evidence that the TCJA is working as its proponents claimed it would
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Detailed estimates for policies in EPI’s ‘Budget for Shared Prosperity’
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Letter in support of the ‘Stop Wall Street Looting Act of 2019’
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EPI’s model federal budget and tax plan: How we can raise the revenue needed to provide universal health care, strengthen safety nets, and shore up public investment
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News from EPI › Congress should pass the Middle Class Health Benefits Tax Repeal Act of 2019 to strengthen the ACA
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Worker bonuses slump 22 percent after GOP tax cuts
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Maximizing job-creation bang-for-buck by reducing import leakages: How many more jobs would be supported by infrastructure investments if import shares were lower in domestic manufacturing?
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A strong worker-centered climate agenda must be central to addressing the next recession
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The next recession will create an opportunity to redefine the government’s role in the economy: Lessons from healthcare organizing
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Presenting EPI’s ‘Budget for Shared Prosperity’
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Recession or not, there will be pain: Coping with corporate bonds