How about converting our depopulated downtowns into affordable housing instead?
American Rescue Plan
Posted inEconomic Policy
Is Government Competent to Spend More Public Money?
Some lessons from the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act
Posted inEconomic Policy
COVID-19 Relief Funds Fuel Employer Tax Breaks
Instead of helping workers, states steer pandemic emergency dollars to employers to help them pay down unemployment insurance debt.
Posted inTAP
Is Summers Owed an Apology—or Does He Owe Us One?
Today on TAP: The policies that he promoted helped produce the supply chain crisis, and his diagnosis of today’s inflation is just plain wrong.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Biden’s Recovery Is on Track
And that’s no reason to reduce Build Back Better, but every reason to fully fund it.
Posted inEconomic Policy
What’s Causing the Weird Inflation?
And is there anything Biden can do to make it subside before it adds to the Democrats’ woes in 2022?
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Democrats Expand Obamacare While Abandoning It
While learning the lessons of the Affordable Care Act, Democrats are still building on top of it instead of seeking a better design.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
As Delta Surges, the Affordable Insurance Marketplace Goes on Leave
The extended open enrollment season for the Affordable Care Act has quietly been closed.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Cities Want to Use Federal Rescue Funds to Pay Off Bank Debt
Activists and local progressive officials don’t want to let them.
Posted inEducation in America
The Child Tax Credit: A Political and Policy Triumph
As Congress begins debating budget reconciliation, the case grows for making the credit permanent—and altering outmoded budget rules to get that done.