Today on TAP: The wrong economic policy for the moment
stimulus
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First 100: The Wonk Case for Limiting Eligibility on Relief Checks Is Wrong
The evidence for targeting tells you nothing about whether it’s good policy, and it’s not even decent targeting.
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Student Debt Cancellation and the Working Class
Today on TAP: Don’t forget about community colleges
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First 100: Democrats Should Keep Doing Popular Things, A Continuing Series
Popular things are popular.
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First 100: The Senate Filibuster Is Actively Harming COVID Relief Policy
Democrats are still on course to pass it anyway.
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First 100: How the Congressional Budget Office May Determine Wages for 32 Million Workers
Also, Biden rescinds Trump’s rescission.
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First 100: Democrats Reconcile Themselves to Reconciliation
Also, another vaccine on the horizon.
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Let Republicans Be Republicans!
Today on TAP: The value of GOP obstruction in the Senate
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The Biden Recovery Plan and the Disarray of Economic Theory
The pandemic had one good effect. It sidelined a lot of bad economic thinking.
