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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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Revitalizing wage growth: Policies to get American workers a raise
One simple question—are wages rising?—is as central to the health of our democracy as it is to the health of our economy. This book presents evidence and analy…
Strengthening labor standards and institutions to promote wage growth
For most of the period since the 1970s the United States has suffered from two trends: stagnant wages for most workers and rising inequality. In this paper, He…
The importance of strong labor demand
By conventional measures, the U.S. job market has suffered some degree of slack for about 70 percent of the time since 1980. The absence of persistent, strong …
How declining dynamism affects wages
Wages have stagnated in recent decades for typical workers. While a number of economic, policy, and technological developments bear some responsibility, econom…
Returning to education: The Hamilton Project on human capital and wages
Human capital is central to raising wages. This framing paper describes trends in human capital investment and educational attainment, and reviews the evidence…
The average American worker did not get much of a raise last year
On January 30, 2018, President Donald Trump delivered his first State of the Union address. In his speech, President Trump highlighted the significant growth a…
Lessons from the rise of women’s labor force participation in Japan
After lagging behind U.S. women for more than forty years, Japanese prime-age women have now caught up and exceeded the U.S. rate of labor force participation.…
Making work pay better through an expanded Earned Income Tax Credit
The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is a refundable tax credit that promotes work. Despite the strong evidence for the effectiveness of the EITC and recent bip…
