Brookings Econ
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Brookings Econ
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Examining how the economy works and what can be done to help it work better.
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- Repealing the ACA's tax on high income households and hospitals would exhaust the Medicare Trust fund by 2024 brook.gs/2hSsObR
- Sesame Street will surely survive Trump's budget cuts, but not in a way that allows low-income children to watch: brook.gs/2moVq2h
- Since 2000, increase in deaths of despair for white men & women has spread across the US: brook.gs/2mPQsqZ #BPEA
- “Good outcomes really are possible. It wasn’t the case that we all got hit with this thing and we all had bad outcomes,” said @ChadJonesEcon RE: his #BPEA study on macroeconomics of #COVID19. Read it: brook.gs/2RXmpj4 & watch the presentation live: brook.gs/3iVOKlm
- The more economically exclusive the university, the more likely the students have attempted to hinder free speech brook.gs/2n6farf
- 91% of the unemployed haven't been paid unemployment, says Varoufakis. How much more deregulation does #GreekEconomy labor market need?
- Bernanke, Geithner, Paulson to lead new project explaining decisions of financial crisis first responders: brook.gs/2zooiNP
- Replying to @BrookingsEcon"Congress literally did not know what it was doing until Alice Rivlin became the first head of the newly formed Congressional Budget Office in 1975." - @Lawrence on @TheLastWord (5/8)
- "[Abortion] access affects women's education, earnings, careers, and the subsequent life outcomes for their children." -@Caitlin_K_Myers & Morgan Welch Read more on what economic research can tell us about the effect of abortion access on women’s lives -> brook.gs/3pduVuk
- Alice Rivlin was a pioneering economist, a devoted civil servant, and a cherished member of the Brookings community for over 60 years. On the anniversary of her passing, we are honored to share her legacy. (1/8) brook.gs/3cARyS6
- Repealing the ACA's tax on high income households and hospitals would exhaust the Medicare Trust fund by 2024 brook.gs/2hSsObR
- Women earn the majority of degrees, yet continue to earn less than men brook.gs/1SdrwrH #WomenWithDegrees
