What Is the Current Student Debt Situation?

Pondering student debt forgiveness with the freshest data. | Continue reading


@peoplespolicyproject.org | 3 years ago

The Myths of the Earned Income Tax Credit

The EITC is ineffective and inefficient. It's time to end it. | Continue reading


@peoplespolicyproject.org | 3 years ago

The Racial Wealth Gap Is About the Upper Classes

The top decile disparities drive almost the entire racial wealth gap. | Continue reading


@peoplespolicyproject.org | 3 years ago

How to Think About Corporate Bailouts Correctly

Get that equity. Get that bread. Get those bands. Now. Now. Now. | Continue reading


@peoplespolicyproject.org | 4 years ago

The Leisure Agenda

Americans spend too much of their waking lives ensnared in needlessly excessive hours of work. | Continue reading


@peoplespolicyproject.org | 4 years ago

Warren’s Perpetual Medicare Head Tax Is Unworkable and Bad

The Warren plan is clearly worse than an employer-side payroll tax. | Continue reading


@peoplespolicyproject.org | 4 years ago

How to Approach Medicare for All Financing

It is really not that difficult if you put a little effort into it. | Continue reading


@peoplespolicyproject.org | 4 years ago

Report finds wealth of top 1% up $21T, bottom 50% down $900B since 1989

America is a hideously unequal place with a large propertyless underclass. | Continue reading


@peoplespolicyproject.org | 4 years ago

The Wealthiest 1% Inherited an Average of $4.8M

Inheritance is a major driver of wealth inequality in the US. | Continue reading


@peoplespolicyproject.org | 4 years ago

The “Two-Income Trap” stuff is clearly incorrect

Two incomes gets you more money than one income, obviously. | Continue reading


@peoplespolicyproject.org | 5 years ago

People Lose Their Employer-Sponsored Insurance Constantly

If you like your employer plan, you don't get to keep it. | Continue reading


@peoplespolicyproject.org | 5 years ago

US Workers Are Highly Taxed If You Count Premiums

Only the Netherlands has a higher average compulsory payment wedge than the US. | Continue reading


@peoplespolicyproject.org | 5 years ago

Sweden Has a 70 Percent Tax Rate and It Is Fine

Sweden shows that soaking the rich is fun, cool, and good. | Continue reading


@peoplespolicyproject.org | 5 years ago

Geoengineering is the Future

The climate change debate contains some silliness. | Continue reading


@peoplespolicyproject.org | 5 years ago

A social wealth fund for America

A plan for a dividend-paying social wealth fund in the United States. | Continue reading


@peoplespolicyproject.org | 5 years ago

Social Housing in the United States [pdf]

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@peoplespolicyproject.org | 5 years ago