Reforms are needed to ensure that inaccurate budgetary math doesn’t take precedence over maximizing long-term prosperity.
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Posted inTAP
Using Industrial Policy to Promote Social Justice
Today on TAP: Can the Biden administration maximize its leverage—and speak with one voice?
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Unions for On-Time Construction
Today on TAP: Commerce Department urges chip-makers facing a construction labor crunch to offer child care, use union workers.
Posted inPolitics
Why Progressive Groups Struggled With the Biden Agenda
The way Build Back Better unfolded made it an insider’s game, wasting serious effort and hundreds of millions of dollars from outside organizations.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Our Bewildering Economy
What are the contradictory trends and policy choices? And does the Inflation Reduction Act live up to its name?
Posted inAmerica and the World
Europeans Have Far More Reproductive Freedom Than Americans
In both access to abortion and a pro-family welfare state, Europe beats the U.S. hands down.
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Don’t Fret, Said Alito; There’s Family Leave!
Today on TAP: But there’s paid family leave only in states where abortion is legal and will remain so. No state where it’s being criminalized would consider such post-birth decency.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The American Rescue Plan’s Child Care Test Run
As an example of the promise of long-term investment in child care and early learning, it was wildly successful. But the money runs out soon.
Posted inBuilding Back America
Why Would Anyone Expect Republicans to Implement the Biden Agenda?
Yet that’s what the Build Back Better Act does with practically all of its family care programs.
