It’s Past Time for Congress To Extend Financial Relief as New COVID-19 Cases Spike
With COVID-19 vaccines in sight, it is more important than ever that Congress address upcoming expiration dates from crucial CARES Act provisions.
Repealing the ACA Would Put Millions at Risk While Giving Big Tax Cuts to the Very Wealthy
A repeal of the Affordable Care Act through the courts would be a massive transfer of money from low- and moderate-income Americans to high-income Americans.
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Capital Gains Tax Preference Should Be Ended, Not Expanded
Foreign Investors Were Big Winners From Trump’s Tax Law
Only a National Strategy To Combat COVID-19 Can Ensure a Full Economic Recovery
The Path to Rural Resilience in America
With a Focus on Equity, Geography No Longer Has To Be Destiny
With the rural-urban divide in the headlines, it is time to address long-standing inequities by building a more comprehensive equity analysis.
Federal Contracting Doesn’t Go Far Enough To Protect American Workers
Karla Walter discusses four ways to improve federal contracting.
Modernizing the Social Contract With Investment Fiduciaries
To help build a new social contract among companies, investors, workers, and society, regulators should modernize the fiduciary rules governing investment advisers and retirement plan fiduciaries to ensure that they disclose how they handle environmental, social, and governance considerations.
Improving the Worksharing System To Absorb Employment Shocks
A greater focus on worksharing within the U.S. unemployment insurance system could help workers and the economy stay afloat during the coronavirus-induced recession and future downturns.
Centering Racial Equity in a New Administration
With a new administration set to lead the U.S. federal government, and in the midst of a pandemic that has exposed the many layers of racial inequality in this country, it is time to finally put infrastructure in place to achieve equity for Black Americans and communities of color.
Repealing the ACA Would Devastate an Already Struggling Rural America
The pandemic has ravaged many rural communities, and the repeal of the Affordable Care Act would only further these harms.
Economic Stewardship in Times of Crisis
Productivity-enhancing investments, inequality-reducing revenues, and strong financial regulation are all central to responsible fiscal policy.
How COVID-19 Sent Women’s Workforce Progress Backward
The collapse of the child care sector and drastic reductions in school supervision hours as a result of COVID-19 could drive millions of mothers out of the paid workforce. Inaction could cost billions, undermine family economic security, and set gender equity back a generation.
4 Ways Trump’s Tax Bill Left Behind the Latino Community
The Trump administration’s tax bill increased inequality and cut taxes for the wealthy, while leaving Latinos, regardless of income, behind.
Rural America Has Been Forgotten During the Coronavirus Crisis
The recent spikes in COVID-19 cases in rural America should spur policymakers to provide much-needed relief.
6 Ways the Trump Administration Is Rigging an Already Unfair Tax Code
The Trump administration’s tax policies have overwhelmingly favored the wealthy.
A Call to Action on Combating Nonpoint Source and Stormwater Pollution
The United States will never achieve its goal of restoring and maintaining the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of its waters without implementing a comprehensive, aggressive program to reduce nonpoint source water pollution and polluted urban runoff.
Public Work Provides Economic Security for Black Families and Communities
Public sector jobs have long provided economic security for Black families and communities and reduced the racial wealth gap, but current policy failures threaten that legacy.
The Shambolic Response to the Public Health and Economic Crisis Has Women on the Brink as the Job Recovery Stalls
Women took the biggest economic hit from the coronavirus-induced recession, and a slowing recovery is increasingly leaving women behind, threatening to set working women back a generation.