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Event recap—Taking on tax: The future of corporate taxation
On June 16, The Hamilton Project, the Tax Law Center at NYU Law, and the Tax Policy Center hosted an event on business tax reform.
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Toward a uniform business tax system: Examining proposals to tax large pass-through entities as corporations
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The future of US international corporate tax reform
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Taking on tax: Toward progressive revenue-raising business tax reform
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Removing barriers to accessing high-productivity places
High regional inequality is driven, in part, by local land-use regulations that prevent low- and middle-income workers from accessing high-productivity places.…
Employment and wage gains lifted household incomes in late 2018
Despite the focus on monthly job reports and unemployment rates, which offer important signals about the state of the economy, it is growth in real household i…
Workers could lose SNAP benefits under Trump’s proposed rule
Following the announcement of a plan to reform SNAP rules, Fellow Lauren Bauer offers analysis suggesting that strict enforcement of work requirements will san…
Labor market considerations for a national job guarantee
In this framing paper, Ryan Nunn, Jimmy O'Donnell, and Jay Shambaugh evaluate the potential labor market impacts of several employment support policies, wi…
Americans aren’t moving to economic opportunity
In their new analysis, Jay Shambaugh, Ryan Nunn, and Jana Parsons explore the national trend of declining worker mobility and migration, particularly the lack …
Health conditions keep many SNAP participants out of the labor force
As federal and state policymakers continue to seek solutions to bring more Americans into the workforce, such as imposing and expanding work requirements on mi…
Work requirements and safety net programs
This paper characterizes the types of individuals who would face work requirements in SNAP and Medicaid, describes what their work experiences are over a two-y…
If real wages aren’t rising, how is household income going up?
How are real incomes rising even as real wages are flat? Ryan Nunn and Jay Shambaugh take a closer look at outcomes over the past few years, and factors that p…
