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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The Trump tax cuts should be repealed, not made even worse by making individual tax cuts permanent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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Reliable data is one of the many victims of the government shutdown
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The bad economics of PAYGO swamp any strategic gain from adopting it
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Bonuses are up $0.02 since the GOP tax cuts passed
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Heading into the midterms, there’s still no evidence that the TCJA is working as promised
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Locking in further regressive tax cuts would just make the TCJA worse
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Data continues to show little evidence that tax cuts are trickling down to typical workers, and now House Republicans want a do-over
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Further evidence that the tax cuts have not led to widespread bonuses, wage or compensation growth
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How do we know the tax cut isn’t working to boost wages? Investment, investment, investment
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Last week’s GDP data shows there’s still no reason to think the TCJA’s corporate rate cuts are trickling down to workers
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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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As Wisconsin’s and Minnesota’s lawmakers took divergent paths, so did their economies: Since 2010, Minnesota’s economy has performed far better for working families than Wisconsin’s
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The Trump administration doubles down in the Wall Street Journal on why trickle-down really does work
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For Tax Day, a reminder that economic arguments for the GOP tax plan have no theoretical basis
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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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A balanced budget amendment would be extraordinarily dangerous for the economy
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Does high CEO pay matter to shareholders?
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Recommendations for creating jobs and economic security in the U.S.: Making sense of debates about full employment, public investment, and public job creation
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Testimony prepared for the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, U.S. House of Representatives: For a hearing on “Building a 21st Century Infrastructure for America—Long-Term Funding for Highways and Transit Programs”
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The Trump administration’s infrastructure plan remains empty talk and will be paid for by cuts to programs that help working people
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The bottom line on Trump and the economy: We’re not in good hands
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Why economics tells us that crediting the TCJA for wage increases is just PR
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Unfulfilled promises: Amazon fulfillment centers do not generate broad-based employment growth
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Year one of the Trump administration: Normalizing itself by working for the top 1 percent
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The TCJA, combined with a cynical PR campaign from the GOP and the corporate world, could hit American families hard in the 2019 tax season
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Tax bill is nothing short of wholesale looting
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Changes to childcare tax credit do nothing to improve Republican tax bill
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The arguments supporting corporate tax cuts are wrong, and territorial taxation will make things worse