Today on X-Date: Squint at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, and you see MAGA conservatives endorsing legislative hostage-taking.
American Rescue Plan
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Who Cares About Care?
Today on TAP: Biden’s latest order is well-intentioned, but the caring economy needs a lot more money.
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Are Good Jobs Good News?
Today on TAP: At many media outlets, however belatedly, they are. But not at The Wall Street Journal.
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How COVID’s End Could Upend Billions in State and Local Spending
The text of the American Rescue Plan has numerous references to the COVID public-health emergency. What happens when that emergency ends on May 11?
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The American Rescue Plan’s Hidden Triumphs
Medicaid expansion in North Carolina and Eli Lilly’s insulin price cuts are largely due to the March 2021 law.
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The Last Pandemic Welfare Supports Get Kicked Out
Expirations around Medicaid and food stamps reinforce how Democrats failed to live up to professed ambitions on the welfare state.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Learning the Right Lessons From Recent Inflation
Why macroeconomic overheating was not the problem and austerity is the wrong cure.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Two Percent Obsession
In the face of mounting evidence that inflation is easing, the Fed clings to a perverse monetary policy. What will its meeting this week produce?
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The Case of the Missing Child Tax Credit
The expanded policy was effective and popular among those who received it, but Democrats have largely avoided discussing it during the midterm elections.
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Can Democrats Talk About Inflation?
Today on TAP: They’d better learn how. They won’t win the midterms just on reproductive rights.