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September 10, 2024
America is Still Working
…use and zoning regulation would help people afford to move to opportunity. Productivity growth—the engine for raising living standards—has been stuck at too-low levels for too long. Shifting government spending…
July 24, 2024
Housing and the American Worker
As the American Worker Project analysis shows, real wages have increased over time. Real wages are nominal wages corrected for changes in the price level, and a natural approach to understanding the…
July 23, 2024
How the 2017 Tax Law Made Itemized Charitable Giving a Luxury Good
…itemized deduction for charitable contributions. At the same time, by nearly doubling the standard deduction, it sharply increased the percentage of tax-filing households choosing not to itemize deductions. This report…
March 27, 2024
Perspectives on Place-Based Policy: Strategies for Workforce and Economic Development
Opportunity varies by place in the US, with the lowest levels of opportunity in states in the former Confederacy and American Indian reservations. Rural America faces unique challenges in relative…
December 1, 2023
Unlocking Economic Prosperity: Career Navigation in a Time of Rapid Change
…are broken in the United States, disproportionately affecting Black, Latinx, and Indigenous individuals and those from low-income backgrounds. Disrupting long-standing occupational segregation and improving outcomes for all will require a system…
November 14, 2023
Forget the Economics of Grievance
…But Trump’s successes were deviations from his brand of nationalism-populism. Indeed, the two major economic policy accomplishments of the Trump years were standard conservative economic fare: needed reform of the…
February 23, 2022
The Case Against Universal Free Lunch
…that pregnant pigs be provided enough space to stand and turn around—a law that yielded histrionic headlines, such as “Bacon May Disappear in California.”12 I’d love to be proved wrong,…