The following feeds and links are intended to keep current with the latest and most compelling policy discourses occurring in the nation. They are not intended to advocate for a specific policy, but to provide factual information to educate the public. As Thomas Jefferson said: “An enlightened citizenry is indispensable for the proper functioning of a republic.”
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Weekend reading: Public investments in care infrastructure edition
This is a post we publish each Friday with links to articles that touch on economic inequality and growth. The
Factsheet: What does the research say about care infrastructure?
The United States is emerging from the greatest health, economic, and caregiving crises in a century. Many policymakers are looking
Policy workshop addressed promises and challenges of using carbon pricing to combat climate change
Climate change might be the world’s most complex public policy problem. It is more global, more long-term, more irreversible, and
Investing in an equitable future
The United States faces four converging and overlapping challenges—a public health crisis and resulting economic one, a reckoning over structural
In Conversation with Mark Rank
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How Amazon gerrymandered the union vote—and won
In all of the coverage about how Amazon and its relentless anti-union campaign defeated the union organizing drive at itsPowerful government policy segregated us; the same can desegregate us, says Color of Law author Richard Rothstein
I am the author of a book, The Color of Law, that disproves the myth of de facto segregation. InWe need a vaccine for false narratives about racial disparities: Taking statistics with a dose of history and context will bolster economic and racial justice for Black workers
Black workers disproportionately experienced the darkest side of 2020, both in terms of health and labor market outcomes—a reality thatToday’s inflation data show zero sign of sustained economic overheating
Correction: The first paragraph of this blog post has been updated with the correct overall consumer price index (CPI) inThe American Jobs Plan’s tax provisions are valuable but not the limit on possible spending
The spending in the American Jobs Plan (AJP) is well targeted to meet several (but obviously not all) pressing social
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