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Work permit applications suggest prior immigration is still pushing up labor supply—for now
Work permit applications remain elevated despite recent immigration slowdowns, illustrating a lag between policy changes and labor market effects that will continue impacting labor supply through 2025.
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Financing losses from catastrophic risks
Catastrophe insurance helps spread risks and increases the ability of policyholders and the economy to recover from both natural disasters and terrorist attack…
Weighing alternative policies for tackling the mortgage mess
Without government action, mortgage foreclosures will rise steeply for the next several years, argues Doug Elmendorf. He analyzes the wide range of proposals f…
If, when, how: A primer on fiscal stimulus
The livelihoods and living standards of many Americans are at stake in any discussion about stimulus. This paper considers several key questions on stimulus an…
A hand up: A strategy to reward work, expand opportunity, and reduce poverty
This paper offers a strategy to reduce poverty and strengthen growth across the income spectrum by helping people find jobs, investing in human capital, and cr…
New Hope: Fulfilling America’s promise to “make work pay”
The New Hope program was designed to assist workers by providing work supports including access to quality child care and health insurance. This paper evaluate…
Employment-based tax credits for low-skilled workers
This paper proposes increasing the return to work for low-income families through the expansion the earned income tax credit for low-income childless taxpayers…
Better workers for better jobs: Improving worker advancement in the low-wage labor market
This paper proposes a new federal funding stream to identify, expand, and replicate the most successful state and local initiatives designed to spur the advanc…
An equitable tax reform to address global climate change
This paper describes a carbon tax swap that is revenue and distributionally neutral. The tax swap levies a tax on greenhouse gas emissions with revenue being u…
