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Partnerships are a large and growing slice of the economy—and a source of significant concern for the tax system. Join us on 9/25 for an event featuring a fireside chat with Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden and Chye-Ching Huang, plus an expert panel. hamiltonproject.org/event/taking-o…

🆕 Findings from three new reports on income, poverty, and health insurance coverage in the United States are now available! Explore data highlights on the nation’s social and economic well-being: census.gov/newsroom/press… #CensusData #income #poverty #HealthInsurance

2023 Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Statistics. census.gov/newsroom/censu…

My two cents: This is largely driven by the convergence of two factors. 1) The shock that our public schools were closed for so long during COVID. 2) The decreasing commitment to offering challenging curriculum to learners ready for it. bostonglobe.com/2024/09/09/bus…

Suppose you believe that tariffs are fully paid by foreigners. Then who do you think is going to pay for all the foreign tariffs that are levied in retaliation for the US ones?

This felt a little like waking up on Christmas morning. Fun event yesterday with Scott Winship Kevin Corinth Michael R. Strain Bradley Hardy! If you haven’t had a chance to dive into income & poverty numbers then check it out here: aei.org/events/new-cen…

CBO examined how new federal policies affected the distribution of household income in 2021. The policies largely benefited lower- and middle-income households, but income inequality still increased, mainly because of realized capital gains. cbo.gov/publication/60…

CBO provides details about the distributions of household income, means-tested transfers, and federal taxes from 1979 to 2021. cbo.gov/publication/60…

Excited to announce the first grants from the Student Upward Mobility Initiative! $3.5 million will support 16 projects that connect PK-12 measures to long-term success or develop new measures of skills that drive economic mobility. A quick overview🧵 studentupwardmobility.urban.org/student-upward…

Are you a researcher looking to improve your causal inference skills? I'm excited to announce that the CJ team Arnold Ventures is hosting 3 causal inference workshops this fall! Two are the day before ASC (Nov 12 in San Francisco), and one is the day before APPAM (Nov 20 just

I don't agree with all of CBO's methods of distributing income. E.g., I want enough capital income to get closer to ~70/30 L/K. (More capital income also would drive down tax rates of the well-off.) But CBO's clarity, & esp. Appendices, are 1st rate. x.com/USCBO/status/1…

It's useful to think of these proposals as spending increases. Do we think we should tax everyone else more to provide transfers to these households?

📢 New Tax Foundation estimates of No Tax on Overtime Pay If OT pay doesn't change -$227 billion income taxes -$145 billion payroll taxes If the 34 million workers who work more than 40 hours a week rearrange their comp to qualify, the cost could exceed $1 trillion.

Cool paper in the Review of Income and Wealth —- Democratic Aggregation: Issues and Implications for Consumer Price Indexes - Martin - Review of Income and Wealth - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ro…

Happy to have a new NBER working paper this week, in which Julia Payson, Stan Veuger, and I analyze the effects of federal pandemic aid to state and local governments on the electoral outcomes of incumbent parties in statewide races: nber.org/papers/w32962 1/n

Sobering stat from the new U.S. CBO paper on student loan repayment patterns (pre-pandemic pause). Half of borrowers never pay down principal 6 years into repayment and owe more than they started with. cbo.gov/system/files/2…

The August 2024 SCE Household Spending Survey shows that the median year-over-year increase in monthly household spending rose to 5.0% in August from 4.6% in April. While below its year-ago reading of 5.5%, the series remains above pre-pandemic levels. newyorkfed.org/microeconomics…

Lower-income families pay lower prices at colleges with large endowments, Phil Levine finds in a new paper. Still, failure to continue improving access to higher education would "enhance the justification for an endowment tax," he adds. brookings.edu/articles/shoul…

After returning to its pre-pandemic pace, posted wage growth is creeping back up. According to the latest data from the Indeed Wage Tracker, wages and salaries advertised in job postings grew at a 3.3% rate in August.

Congrats to my friend Robert Lerman for receiving the McGraw Prize in education for his work over the years on apprenticeship: mcgrawprize.com/news-events/tr… Bob shows how the dedication and tireless efforts of a single individual can expand workplace opportunity for who need it.