The economy has many problems. But the labor market hasn’t been doing this well in many decades.
American Rescue Plan
Posted inTAP
Can States Plug Gaps in Federal Policy?
Today on TAP: Expansion of the Child Tax Credit is blocked in Washington, but many states are partly helping. They can do only so much.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Poverty Yo-Yo
New Census Bureau statistics show that abandoning the successful anti-poverty interventions of the pandemic has put the nation right back where it started.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Guaranteed Income Gets a New Life
A surge of federal funding from the American Rescue Plan has helped cities develop pilot guaranteed income programs. Will they last?
Posted inEconomic Policy
Buybacks Are Down, Production Is Up
Bidenomics has begun to de-financialize the economy.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Biden’s Unheralded War on Poverty
By creating a full-employment economy, Biden enabled millions of low-wage workers to raise their pay.
Posted inEconomic Policy
It’s Hamiltonian! It’s Jeffersonian! It’s Bidenomics!
The president’s economic policies combine the best elements of our economic heritage.
Posted inPolitics
Moving Past Neoliberalism Is a Policy Project
In order to test whether improving people’s lives can convince them to support Democrats, you have to, well, improve people’s lives.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Looming Child Care Cliff
In 2021, Congress issued grants to stabilize the child care system. Now the money is about to run out.
Posted inWorking in America
An Unemployment System Frozen in Amber
Pandemic-era benefit boosts worked for jobless recipients and the economy. Why did they go away?