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Proposed SNAP cuts would permanently undermine recession readiness and responsiveness
Changes proposed in the budget bill would undermine SNAP's role as an automatic stabilizer during recessions.
Economic Security & Inequality
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Will the reconciliation bill’s Child Tax Credit changes leave out children in low-income working families?
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Work requirements penalize workers in volatile occupations
Employment & Wages
Social Insurance
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Changes in the safety net over recent decades and their impact
Economic Security & Inequality
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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…
Rehabilitating the business income tax
In this paper, Edward D. Kleinbard introduces the Business Enterprise Income Tax (BEIT), a proposal for reforming business income taxation. He argues that the …
Evolving beyond traditional employer-sponsored health insurance
For most working-age families, health insurance is directly connected to the workplace; but this form of coverage is steadily eroding. This paper outlines thre…
