Today on TAP: Even if we can avert ill-advised budget concessions as part of a debt ceiling deal, it will take more radical policies to improve the life prospects of workaday Americans.
Poverty & Wealth
Posted inEconomic Policy
The IRS Takes a Welcome Step Into the 20th Century
Maybe by 2100 America can have a proper tax authority.
Posted inHousing
New York Considers Community Land Trusts
Nonprofit developers are working to get first dibs on transforming multifamily housing developments into real options for rent-burdened New Yorkers.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Sen. Tim Scott’s ‘Land of Opportunity’ (Zones)
The presidential hopeful’s signature poverty-fighting policy is a bust.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Big Retail Surveils Food Stamp User Data
SNAP beneficiaries can now shop online. Payday lenders are hoping to advertise to them.
Posted inBooks
Held Down by Our Bootstraps
Author Alissa Quart says the myth of American individualism is a poor excuse for inequality.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Taxman Cometh
A new plan from the IRS lays out how the agency intends to revamp itself.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Forgotten Left Economics Tradition
In the Progressive and New Deal eras, there was a markedly different response to rising prices, and a different usage of economic theory.
Posted inEconomic Policy
How Model-Dependent Policymaking Ignores Race
Despite decades of policies aimed at creating new generations of homeowners, many African Americans grapple with a hostile housing sector. Where did the assumptions go wrong?
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Bureau of Prisons Proposes to Raid Incarcerated People’s Bank Accounts
Advocates are left in the dark as the agency ends public comment on a rule that could garnish up to 50 percent of someone’s wages to use on fines and fees.