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April 28, 2025
You Autor Know
…smaller job loss totals using their estimates. As an example, we can compare two CZs with import exposure differing by a standard deviation, and otherwise plug in the same numbers…
March 24, 2025
Tax Abatements: The Best-Kept Secret to Revitalizing Struggling Communities—Without Spending Taxpayer Money
…rules, faster permitting, and cost-effective building standards A meaningful property tax abatement that closes the feasibility gap Increased zoning capacity and flexibility to allow greater density across more areas When…
February 24, 2025
A Conservative Vision for Higher Education Reform
…addressing inequity. Unintended consequences of higher standards for students and borrowers should be addressed through direct grant aid rather than lower standards. Introduction The year 2019 marked a dramatic turning…
September 23, 2024
Toward a Potential Grand Bargain for the Nation
…strengthening the link between pay and performance; maintaining educational standards and accountability while narrowing gaps by race and class; expanding school choice; and recognizing the role that parents and families…
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…