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The softening labor market is still growing
This analysis uses key indicators from the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) to investigate how firms are hiring and retaining workers and the implications for the labor market. More rece...
Employment & Wages
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Immigration and the macroeconomy in the second Trump administration
Effective Government
Healthy Economy
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The softening labor market shows resilience and some pockets of slack
Employment & Wages
Policy Proposals
A federal guarantee for earned paid time off
Economic Security & Inequality
Employment & Wages
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April 6, 2020
Who stands to lose if the final SNAP work requirement rule takes effect?
This interactive allows users to find out how many people and SNAP households lived in places that would have lost the protection of a SNAP work requirement wa…
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March 12, 2020
How to bolster UI in response to COVID-19
Ryan Nunn argues that in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the UI system requires a number of reforms to support families and the broader economy.
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March 9, 2020
Food security is economic security is economic stimulus
Lauren Bauer and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach detail policy responses tailored to the COVID-19 pandemic to support food security, particularly for households wi…
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December 4, 2019
New SNAP rule change just made it harder to combat future recessions
The final rule on work requirement waivers, released on December 4, 2019, weakens SNAP's role as an automatic stabilizer and a critical element of the safe…
Policy Proposals
May 16, 2019
Strengthening SNAP as an automatic stabilizer
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is both an effective antipoverty program and a natural automatic stabilizer, expanding when the economy is…
Policy Proposals
May 16, 2019
Unemployment insurance and macroeconomic stabilization
Low recipiency rates and an imperfect Extended Benefits program weaken the unemployment insurance program’s effectiveness during recessions. Gabriel Chodorow-R…
Policy Proposals
May 16, 2019
Improving TANF’s countercyclicality through increased basic assistance and subsidized jobs
The design of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program prevents it from providing sufficient assistance to families with children during econ…
Policy Proposals
May 16, 2019
Direct stimulus payments to individuals
Consumer spending, which makes up about 70 percent of aggregate expenditures in the economy, slows sharply during recessions. This slowdown can exacerbate empl…