Today on TAP: Addressing corporate price-gouging, building housing, helping families. Good stuff and smart politics.
Child Tax Credit
Posted inPolitics
There Are Some Damned Good Reasons Why Joe Biden Moved to the Left
Contra Jon Chait, Biden’s economic progressivism has been both historic and (had he only been able to explain it) good politics.
Posted inEconomic Policy
We Can and Should Address Racial Disparities
Most of the programs that would be most beneficial to racial equality are actually universal policies.
Posted inPolitics
The Support Our Public Services Briefly Had—and Still Need
And how President Biden can make that goal a better campaign theme
Posted inEconomic Policy
The $6 Trillion Decision
The stakes of the election can be laid out in 13-figure sums.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Biden Should Begin the Tax Wars Now
He needs to highlight his positions against the Republicans’. And not give away too much in interim deals.
Posted inEconomic Policy
An Unequal Tax Trade
The business tax credits in the Wyden-Smith deal are five times as generous as the Child Tax Credit expansion, according to government scorekeepers.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Ten Percent of the Way to a Deal on the Child Tax Credit
The minor tweak proposed to the CTC is less important than what the Democrats want to do after the Trump tax cuts expire in 2025.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Q&A: Arin Dube on the Benefits of Full Employment
The UMass professor details a reduction in wage inequality unseen in the U.S. in half a century.
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.
