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Work permit applications suggest prior immigration is still pushing up labor supply—for now
Work permit applications remain elevated despite recent immigration slowdowns, illustrating a lag between policy changes and labor market effects that will continue impacting labor supply through 2025.
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Tax data show evidence of strong income gains for higher-income families and only muted decreases for lower- and moderate-income families in 2020
In a new blog, Mitchell Barnes, Mark Booth, Wendy Edelberg, and Sara Estep analyze data from the Daily Treasury Statements and examine the impact of the recess…
Strengthening the Child Tax Credit: What comes next?
Bob Greenstein outlines the future of the Child Tax Credit and examines how the American Family Plan can help make the CTC permanent.
Across-the-board spending cuts do not make children or the economy healthier
The difficult realities and constraints facing the U.S. federal budget, coupled with the evident value of investing in children and families, raise a complex q…
Tax reforms to raise revenue efficiently and equitably
Wendy Edelberg, Elizabeth Lee, Sara Estep, Madison Bober highlight a selection of policy proposals from The Hamilton Project’s 2020 book, "Tackling the Tax Cod…
A macroeconomic analysis of a Senate Republican COVID relief package
Ten Senate Republicans recently proposed a $618-billion COVID relief package. In this piece, we provide an analysis of that package and update our analysis of …
The macroeconomic implications of Biden’s $1.9 trillion fiscal package
Wendy Edelberg and Louise Sheiner estimate the economic effects of the Biden administration's proposed $1.9 trillion fiscal package.
The economics of federal tax policy
How the government raises tax revenue has critical implications for economic prosperity. Moss, Nunn, and Shambaugh provide a framework for assessing various ta…
Taxing wealth
The United States has high levels of income and wealth inequality, in part because of shortcomings in how we tax concentrated income and wealth. To raise reven…
