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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The Trump tax cuts should be repealed, not made even worse by making individual tax cuts permanent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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Projected state and local revenue shortfalls are shrinking, but the value of substantial federal aid to state and local governments is not
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The Biden relief and recovery proposal spends the right amount: Concerns over the pace of its spend-out make sense, but even these concerns are overstated and easy to address
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CBO analysis confirms that a $15 minimum wage raises earnings of low-wage workers, reduces inequality, and has significant and direct fiscal effects: Large progressive redistribution of income caused by higher minimum wage leads to significant and cross-cutting fiscal effects
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The Biden rescue plan is neither risky nor a distraction from structural issues
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A $15 minimum wage would have significant and direct effects on the federal budget
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The U.S. economy could use some ‘overheating’: Biden’s relief and recovery plan meets the scale of the economic crisis
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Principles for the relief and recovery phase of rebuilding the U.S. economy: Use debt, go big, and stay big, and be very slow when turning off fiscal support
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Voters chose more than just the president: A review of important state ballot initiative outcomes
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Rebuilding American manufacturing—potential job gains by state and industry: Analysis of trade, infrastructure, and clean energy/energy efficiency proposals
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More FAQS on deficits and debt: Where is the money coming from?
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News from EPI › A huge jobs deficit remains, by any measure: Congress must provide more relief
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The Way Out Through State and Local Aid: Bipartisan group of economists breaks down why local governments need aid now
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The Way Out through State and Local Aid: A bipartisan panel of the nation’s top economists discuss the action needed to avoid the calamitous effects of cratering state and local revenues
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We can reshore manufacturing jobs, but Trump hasn’t done it: Trade rebalancing, infrastructure, and climate investments could create 17 million good jobs and rebuild the American economy
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Recovering fully from the coronavirus shock will require large increases in federal debt—and there’s nothing wrong with that
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Debt and deficits in the coronavirus recovery: Answers to frequently asked questions
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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