Congress should pass a clean Dream Act that gives young DACA recipients a path to citizenship and take other steps to improve the lives of immigrants and bolster communities and the economy.
Ben Spielberg
Ben Spielberg is a research associate with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, where he manages its Full Employment Project.
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Posted inEconomic Policy
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Opponents of minimum-wage increases have long focused on the wrong economic questions.
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Posted inEconomic Policy
Three Reasons Trickle-Down Tax Cuts Don’t Work
But they’re a great way of making the rich richer, which is why Trump is proposing them.
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Watch Out for Even More Tax Breaks—for the Rich
How we squander resources through the tax code, and how that could get a lot worse in the age of Trump
