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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The Trump tax cuts should be repealed, not made even worse by making individual tax cuts permanent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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Abolish the debt ceiling before it commits austerity again: The GOP used the debt ceiling to force spending cuts in 2011. It can’t be allowed again.
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‘Build Back Better’ agenda will ensure strong, stable recovery in coming years
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State and local American Rescue Plan funds should be used to support an equitable recovery for workers
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Care workers are deeply undervalued and underpaid: Estimating fair and equitable wages in the care sectors
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EPI comments on Treasury’s administration of the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds as part of the American Rescue Plan
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President Biden’s budget shows what true ‘fiscal responsibility’ means: Pushing the economy closer to full employment, reducing inequality, and measuring the debt burden more accurately
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This Mother’s Day, recognize care work as the work that powers our economy
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The Biden-Harris administration’s first 100 days: How to assess progress for workers
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The American Jobs Plan’s tax provisions are valuable but not the limit on possible spending
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Next round of recovery spending is about meeting social needs, not filling macroeconomic gaps
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Why Global Steel Surpluses Warrant U.S. Section 232 Import Measures
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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?