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Associated Press: ‘Bidenomics’ delivered a once-in-generation investment. It shows the pros and cons of policymaking
“’We spent decades underinvesting,’ said Wendy Edelberg, a former chief economist at the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office and now a senior fellow in eco…
Axios: America may need to start caring about the deficit again
“‘The pandemic created enormous economic losses, and we used borrowing not so much to make the losses vanish into thin air but to spread them out over time,’ W…
Project Syndicate: The Fed must not flinch
“The failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank are significant market events. But, given an overheated labor market and 1970s-like inflation, if the F…
PBS NewsHour: WATCH: Economic policy and Biden’s presidency | 2023 State of the Union
Inflation and its impact on the wider economy and the lives of people across the country has dominated domestic policy concerns this past year. The PBS NewsHou…
NPR Detroit: Why another debt ceiling fight looms in Congress
“Wendy Edelberg is the director of The Hamilton Project and a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution. She previously served as the Chie…
Podcast—Larry Summers & Jay Shambaugh on progressive tax reform
Hamilton Project Director Jay Shambaugh interviews former treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, now a professor at Harvard University, about reforming the tax c…
Three proposals to give Americans a tax break and increase labor force participation
This tax season, some Americans will receive a financial boost from federal and state refunds while others will face unexpected payments. The Hamilton Project …
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…
