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Prime-age women are still driving the labor market recovery
Prime-age women have driven the post-pandemic labor market recovery, but labor force participation rates vary among different demographic groups.
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An economic strategy to address climate change and promote energy security
This paper presents a strategy for addressing climate change and promoting energy security that includes pricing carbon and oil, investing in basic research on…
Universal, effective, and affordable health insurance: An economic imperative
This paper examines the interrelated problems of uninsurance and expensive or ineffective care in the American healthcare system. Universal insurance would eli…
Achieving universal coverage through Medicare Part E(veryone)
This paper outlines a model for Medicare Part E(everyone), a program to provide universal, continuous, and affordable health insurance. This proposal adopts Me…
Taking Massachusetts national: An incremental approach to universal health insurance
Jonathan Gruber discusses issues surrounding universal healthcare coverage and the uninsured and lays out a plan at the national level which builds on the Mass…
A comprehensive cure: Universal health care vouchers
Ezekiel Emanuel and Victor Fuchs discuss a Universal Healthcare Voucher System, which would achieve universal health coverage by entitling all Americans to a s…
Reforming corporate taxation in a global economy: A proposal to adopt formulary apportionment
This paper argues that the current system of taxing multinational firms generates tax distortions. It proposes a new system that would protect the U.S. tax bas…
Achieving progressive tax reform in an increasingly global economy
The dynamic forces of technological change, financial innovation, and globalization present new challenges for progressive taxation. This strategy paper offers…
Taxing privilege more effectively: Replacing the estate tax with an inheritance tax
Lily Batchelder proposes replacing the estate tax with an inheritance tax. She argues that this tax would lower taxes on heirs receiving smaller inheritances a…
