President Trump's attempt to fire Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook directly threatens the Fed’s independence and the stability of the U.S. economy.

Equitable Growth

21.08.2025

Equitable Growth awards funding to early career scholars studying the effects of economic inequality - Equitable Growth

Equitable Growth has awarded funding to seven early career scholars seeking to better understand the effects of economic inequality in the United States.

Equitable Growth

21.08.2025

How artificial intelligence uncouples hard work from fair wages through ‘surveillance pay’ practices—and how to fix it - Equitable Growth

How surveillance pay practices work, where they are increasingly deployed in the U.S. economy, and policy recommendations to ensure pay fairness and transparency.

Equitable Growth

17.08.2025

What is austerity, and how does it affect the broader U.S. economy? - Equitable Growth

An FAQ on austerity and the broader economic effects of cuts to federal spending

Equitable Growth

08.08.2025

Why Financial Crises Recur - Equitable Growth

Lawmakers deliberate attempts at improving financial stability—including the so-called “GENIUS Act” to regulate stablecoins—have fallen short because of two main errors.

Equitable Growth

30.07.2025

Tariffs impact U.S. industries differently, with manufacturing the most exposed - Equitable Growth

How tariffs on imported inputs could raise costs for U.S. industries and workers—with a novel interlinked dataset and code for researchers.

Equitable Growth

29.07.2025

Equity Prices, Market Power, and Optimal Corporate Tax Policy - Equitable Growth

A novel contribution to the optimal tax literature, with a focus on the interaction between market power and corporate tax policy.

Equitable Growth

29.07.2025

How are Municipal-Level Fair Workweek Laws Playing Out on the Ground? Experiences of Food Service and Retail Workers in Three Cities - Equitable Growth

This examination of fair workweek laws in three cities provides information for improving work schedules in covered jobs.

Equitable Growth

16.07.2025

Accounting for capital gains in income significantly increases U.S. inequality - Equitable Growth

Capital gains in the United States are large and are distributed very unequally along the income distribution, with the bulk of them going to the very top.

Equitable Growth

15.07.2025

The 10 worst policies for equitable economic growth in the 2025 budget reconciliation law - Equitable Growth

The 2025 budget reconciliation law’s 10 most harmful policies for Americans and economic growth over the next decade and beyond.

Equitable Growth

12.07.2025

Republican reconciliation bill’s cuts to social programs will damage some congressional districts’ local economies - Equitable Growth

Republican reconciliation bill cuts to social programs will prevent money from circulating among local businesses and damage regional economies.

Equitable Growth

11.07.2025

Adoption of generative AI will have different effects across jobs in the U.S. logistics workforce - Equitable Growth

An exploration of the mechanisms that may shape generative AI's potential to transform the U.S. logistics workforce.

Equitable Growth

09.07.2025

Slow wage growth is the key to understanding U.S. inequality in the 21st century - Equitable Growth

Equitable Growth's U.S. Inequality Tracker tracks income and wealth inequality and highlights how particular components of income and wealth shape trends.

Equitable Growth

08.07.2025

Equitable Growth responds to passage of the federal budget bill - Equitable Growth

The 2025 federal budget bill exacerbates inequality by sending more than 50 percent of its tax benefits to the top 10 percent of U.S. households.

Equitable Growth

04.07.2025

Americans informed about the distributional effects of Republicans’ tax and budget bill overwhelmingly oppose it - Equitable Growth

Republicans’ tax and budget bill would, if enacted, be the most regressive U.S. tax and budget law in at least the past four decades.

Equitable Growth

02.07.2025

Optimal Monetary Policy Under Menu Costs - Equitable Growth

In a multisector economy with menu costs, allowing inflation to respond to sectoral shocks yields higher welfare than strict inflation targeting.

Equitable Growth

26.06.2025

Congressional Republicans’ budget bill is the most regressive in at least 40 years - Equitable Growth

Jacob Hacker and Patrick Sullivan shine a light on the hidden regressive elements of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

Equitable Growth

26.06.2025

Americans Informed About the Distributional Effects of Republicans’ Budget Bill Overwhelmingly Oppose It - Equitable Growth

Survey results show that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is broadly unpopular—overwhelmingly so after respondents learned of its regressive distributional effects.

Equitable Growth

25.06.2025

Financial and Transfer Income as Components of the Regional Economic Base - Equitable Growth

Government transfers and financial income form a major component of the basic sector in the United States.

Equitable Growth

25.06.2025

Medicaid and SNAP cuts in congressional Republicans’ budget bill will negatively impact local economies - Equitable Growth

New research shows how cuts to Medicaid and other social programs negatively impact local economies as well as program beneficiaries.

Equitable Growth

18.06.2025

Testimony by Michael Linden on “The Big Beautiful Betrayal—Working Folks Pay While The Mega Rich Profit” - Equitable Growth

Michael Linden testifies on the Republican budget bill's wealth transfer to the rich and its detrimental impact on American families.

Equitable Growth

18.06.2025

Factsheet: U.S. economic mobility and policies to increase upward mobility - Equitable Growth

An overview of different types of economic mobility in play across the U.S. economy and policy solutions to increase upward mobility.

Equitable Growth

12.06.2025

The ‘funny math’ of top U.S. tax rates - Equitable Growth

A breakdown of two applications of the funny tax rate that imply implausibly high tax rates for the rich and highlight U.S. economic inequality.

Equitable Growth

11.06.2025

The hidden trade-offs of nonwage job amenities for U.S. workers - Equitable Growth

Research shows that “amenity trade-offs” can account for as much as two-thirds of the gender pay gap.

Equitable Growth

06.06.2025

U.S. labor market data reveal that different job characteristics contribute to the gender wage gap - Equitable Growth

Gender employment ratios, job characteristics, and how they can predict disparities between women’s and men’s earnings fluctuate over time.

Equitable Growth

30.05.2025

Equitable Growth event brings together scholars and the policy community to discuss the rise of right-wing populism and the future of economic policy - Equitable Growth

Equitable Growth hosted an event on “The rise of populism and the future of economic policy” to counter the rise of the anti-democratic movement.

Equitable Growth

23.05.2025

The Firm as Tax Shelter - Equitable Growth

Evidence that firms serve as tax-free consumption vehicles for business managers.

Equitable Growth

23.05.2025

Business owners often use their firms as tax shelters, reducing government revenue and reported income inequality - Equitable Growth

Policymakers should be redoubling efforts to better define and enforce the tax laws that govern deducting of business owners' expenses.

Equitable Growth

15.05.2025

How the economic and political geography of the United States fuels right-wing populism—and what the Democratic Party can do about it - Equitable Growth

The shifting coalitional bases of America’s two major parties and how they are related to political-economic geography.

Equitable Growth

15.05.2025

Countering right-wing populism: Identifying its cultural roots and charting a path forward - Equitable Growth

The rise of right-wing populism in the United States and other advanced democracies and crafting an agenda based on solidarity, identity, and purpose.

Equitable Growth

15.05.2025

Housing insecurity and U.S. economic policies: Lessons from tenant organizing - Equitable Growth

Tenant organizing illuminates a path toward U.S. economic policies that are responsive to the needs of people and communities.

Equitable Growth

14.05.2025

The political implications of bad jobs and the decline of unions - Equitable Growth

A review the effects and implications of declining job quality both for workers and for democracy in the United States.

Equitable Growth

14.05.2025

More accurately measuring economic sentiment will help build a U.S. economy—and democracy—that works for all - Equitable Growth

A look at current economic indicators and their shortcomings in reflecting economic sentiment among the U.S. population.

Equitable Growth

14.05.2025

How the China trade shock impacted U.S. manufacturing workers and labor markets, and the consequences for U.S. politics - Equitable Growth

How the China trade shock of the early 2000s shaped the evolution of trade-exposed local labor markets in the United States.

Equitable Growth

14.05.2025

Federal and state governments can help solve the employment problems of people in distressed places to spur equitable growth - Equitable Growth

How to best target economically distressed places with job creation programs and what job creation programs are most effective.

Equitable Growth

14.05.2025

Understanding the role of immigration and economic factors in boosting support for far-right political parties - Equitable Growth

This essay offers a new way to understand how concerns about immigration translate into political behavior.

Equitable Growth

14.05.2025

America’s job-quality crisis and how to revive workers’ pay, dignity, job advancement, and economic well-being - Equitable Growth

This essay focuses on the drivers of the job-quality crisis and concrete policy responses to address those drivers.

Equitable Growth

13.05.2025

Tariffs pose real risks to the U.S. labor market - Equitable Growth

A look at labor market data reveals how trade policy and tariffs could affect U.S. workers in the medium and longer term.

Equitable Growth

09.05.2025

Testimony by Michael Linden before the House Budget Committee - Equitable Growth

Testimony by Michael Linden before the House Budget Committee on the nation’s weakened fiscal situation and Congress’ budget framework.

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States can support children and their economies using direct cash assistance from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families block grant program - Equitable Growth

The Federal Reserve must maintain its independence for the U.S. economy to thrive - Equitable Growth

Equitable Growth awards funding to early career scholars studying the effects of economic inequality - Equitable Growth

How artificial intelligence uncouples hard work from fair wages through ‘surveillance pay’ practices—and how to fix it - Equitable Growth

What is austerity, and how does it affect the broader U.S. economy? - Equitable Growth

Why Financial Crises Recur - Equitable Growth

Tariffs impact U.S. industries differently, with manufacturing the most exposed - Equitable Growth

Equity Prices, Market Power, and Optimal Corporate Tax Policy - Equitable Growth

How are Municipal-Level Fair Workweek Laws Playing Out on the Ground? Experiences of Food Service and Retail Workers in Three Cities - Equitable Growth

Accounting for capital gains in income significantly increases U.S. inequality - Equitable Growth

The 10 worst policies for equitable economic growth in the 2025 budget reconciliation law - Equitable Growth

Republican reconciliation bill’s cuts to social programs will damage some congressional districts’ local economies - Equitable Growth

Adoption of generative AI will have different effects across jobs in the U.S. logistics workforce - Equitable Growth

Slow wage growth is the key to understanding U.S. inequality in the 21st century - Equitable Growth

Equitable Growth responds to passage of the federal budget bill - Equitable Growth

Americans informed about the distributional effects of Republicans’ tax and budget bill overwhelmingly oppose it - Equitable Growth

Optimal Monetary Policy Under Menu Costs - Equitable Growth

Congressional Republicans’ budget bill is the most regressive in at least 40 years - Equitable Growth

Americans Informed About the Distributional Effects of Republicans’ Budget Bill Overwhelmingly Oppose It - Equitable Growth

Financial and Transfer Income as Components of the Regional Economic Base - Equitable Growth

Medicaid and SNAP cuts in congressional Republicans’ budget bill will negatively impact local economies - Equitable Growth

Testimony by Michael Linden on “The Big Beautiful Betrayal—Working Folks Pay While The Mega Rich Profit” - Equitable Growth

Factsheet: U.S. economic mobility and policies to increase upward mobility - Equitable Growth

The ‘funny math’ of top U.S. tax rates - Equitable Growth

The hidden trade-offs of nonwage job amenities for U.S. workers - Equitable Growth

U.S. labor market data reveal that different job characteristics contribute to the gender wage gap - Equitable Growth

Equitable Growth event brings together scholars and the policy community to discuss the rise of right-wing populism and the future of economic policy - Equitable Growth

The Firm as Tax Shelter - Equitable Growth

Business owners often use their firms as tax shelters, reducing government revenue and reported income inequality - Equitable Growth

How the economic and political geography of the United States fuels right-wing populism—and what the Democratic Party can do about it - Equitable Growth

Countering right-wing populism: Identifying its cultural roots and charting a path forward - Equitable Growth

Housing insecurity and U.S. economic policies: Lessons from tenant organizing - Equitable Growth

The political implications of bad jobs and the decline of unions - Equitable Growth

More accurately measuring economic sentiment will help build a U.S. economy—and democracy—that works for all - Equitable Growth

How the China trade shock impacted U.S. manufacturing workers and labor markets, and the consequences for U.S. politics - Equitable Growth

Federal and state governments can help solve the employment problems of people in distressed places to spur equitable growth - Equitable Growth

Understanding the role of immigration and economic factors in boosting support for far-right political parties - Equitable Growth

America’s job-quality crisis and how to revive workers’ pay, dignity, job advancement, and economic well-being - Equitable Growth

Tariffs pose real risks to the U.S. labor market - Equitable Growth

Testimony by Michael Linden before the House Budget Committee - Equitable Growth

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