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Howard Gleckman

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I live a double life at Urban, but both my roles focus on finding answers to tough policy questions. Building on three decades as a journalist, my work at the Tax Policy Center aims to explain often-arcane tax and fiscal policy to a broad audience. My long-term care work focuses on building practical solutions to the nation’s financing and delivery challenges.

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Howard Gleckman is a senior fellow in the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center at the Urban Institute, where he edits the fiscal policy blog TaxVox and the daily news summary The Daily Deduction. He is also affiliated with Urban’s Program on Retirement Policy, where he works on long-term care issues.

Before joining Urban, Gleckman was senior correspondent in the Washington bureau of Business Week, where he was a 2003 National Magazine Award finalist. He was a 2006–07 media fellow at the Kaiser Family Foundation and a visiting fellow at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College from 2006 to 2008.

Gleckman writes two regular columns for Forbes.com, on tax policy and elder care. He is author of the book Caring for Our Parents and speaks and writes frequently on long-term care issues.

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Federal Budget and Economy
The Future of Long-Term Care: What Is Its Place in the Health Reform Debate?
Howard Gleckman

June 15, 2009
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Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms
Tax Proposals in the 2010 Budget
Rosanne Altshuler, Leonard E. Burman, Howard Gleckman, Dan Halperin, Roberton C. Williams

March 16, 2009
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Federal Budget and Economy
Tax Stimulus Report Card: Conference Bill
Rosanne Altshuler, Leonard E. Burman, Howard Gleckman, Dan Halperin, Benjamin H. Harris, Elaine Maag, Kim S. Rueben, Eric Toder, Roberton C. Williams

February 13, 2009
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Federal Budget and Economy
Tax Stimulus Report Card: Comparing the House and Senate Bills
Rosanne Altshuler, Howard Gleckman, Roberton C. Williams

February 3, 2009
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Federal Budget and Economy
Tax Stimulus Report Card: Senate Finance Committee
Rosanne Altshuler, Leonard E. Burman, Howard Gleckman, Dan Halperin, Benjamin H. Harris, Elaine Maag, Kim S. Rueben, Eric Toder, Roberton C. Williams

January 29, 2009
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Federal Budget and Economy
Tax Stimulus Report Card: House Bill
Rosanne Altshuler, Leonard E. Burman, Howard Gleckman, Elaine Maag, Eric Toder, Roberton C. Williams

January 26, 2009
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Federal Budget and Economy
An Updated Analysis of the 2008 Presidential Candidates' Tax Plans: Executive Summary - Revised September 15, 2008
Roberton C. Williams, Howard Gleckman

September 15, 2008
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Federal Budget and Economy
An Updated Analysis of the 2008 Presidential Candidates' Tax Plans: Executive Summary
Roberton C. Williams, Howard Gleckman

July 23, 2008

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Federal Budget and Economy
How Zero-Sum Thinking May Affect Attitudes About Taxes
April 19, 2024 –
Do you think about the world as “zero-sum,” where resources are limited and my gain is your loss? Or do you believe that resources are...
Federal Budget and Economy
Remembering Daniel Kahneman, The Psychologist Who Upended Economics
April 10, 2024 –
Perhaps the two most influential economics thinkers of the past half-century were not economists at all. Psychologists Amos Tversky, who died young in 1996, and...
Federal Budget and Economy
How The Anti-Tax Movement Changed Politics and Government
April 2, 2024 –
How The Anti-Tax Movement Changed Politics and Government In his new book, law professor Michael Graetz makes a provocative argument: The modern anti-tax movement is...
Business Taxes
What Trump’s 100 Percent Auto Tariff Would Mean For The US Economy
March 28, 2024 –
In a March 17 campaign speech, former president Trump vowe d “We're going to put a 100 percent tariff on every single car that comes...
Individual Taxes
Biden’s Homebuyer Tax Credit Has Potential But Can Be Improved
March 22, 2024 –
A tax credit for first-time homebuyers could be an important step towards restructuring the way the US subsidizes home ownership. But the version President Biden...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms
Biden Lays Out An Ambitious, But Familiar, 2024 Campaign Tax Agenda
March 8, 2024 –
Last night’s State of the Union address probably was President Biden’s last first-term speech to Congress. But it also was his first big-stage re-election campaign...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms
Conservatives Lay Out Their Second Term Trump Tax Policy
February 29, 2024 –
A policy agenda developed by influential conservative groups for a second Donald Trump presidential term already has received attention for its controversial immigration recommendations ...
Business Taxes
Congress May Expand The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit. But Why?
February 5, 2024 –
The House-passed Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024 would expand the largest federal subsidy program for construction of affordable housing, called...
Business Taxes
Why Is Congress Giving Business Retroactive Tax Breaks?
January 23, 2024 –
While Congress is likely to nit-pick the compromise business and child tax credit tax bill designed by top Capitol Hill tax writers, there is broad...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms
Trump Vows To “Always Protect Social Security” But What Does He Mean?
January 22, 2024 –
Former President Trump is blasting GOP primary rival Nikki Haley for wanting to restore Social Security solvency by increasing the age when today’s young workers...
Business Taxes
Lawmakers Keep Targeting Tax Breaks Of Those They Disagree With
January 11, 2024 –
Three progressive senators and a representative have sent a letter to the tax prep firm Intuit demanding to know how it uses the research and...
Business Taxes
Why Are Big-Time College Sports Revenues Exempt From Income Tax?
December 21, 2023 –
The NCAA’s proposal to allow big-time university and college sports programs to pay salaries to their athletes has me wondering what it will take for...
Individual Taxes
The Supreme Court’s Search For An Off-Ramp In the Moore Case
December 6, 2023 –
Yesterday’s oral arguments in Moore v. United States made one thing clear: The Supreme Court has little interest in blowing up the tax code. While...
Federal Budget and Economy
Watch Congress Spend And Cut Taxes More, Despite Its Deficit Hang-Wringing
December 4, 2023 –
Want to know why the budget deficit is enormous and growing? One reason is that when one political party in Congress proposes new tax cuts...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms
Tim Scott’s Withdrawal Silences The GOP Presidential Campaign’s Tax Debate
November 14, 2023 –
Sen. Tim Scott’s (R-SC) decision to drop his bid for the Republican presidential nomination means voters have lost their best opportunity to hear a serious...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms
What Is Nikki Haley’s Tax and Budget Platform?
November 6, 2023 –
Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, who appears to be winning increasing support a mong Republicans in the race for her party’s 2024 presidential nomination,...
Business Taxes
Questioning The Tax-Exemption Of Universities Over Their Mideast Views Is Dangerous
October 25, 2023 –
House Ways & Means Committee Chair Jason Smith (R-MO) has questioned the tax-exempt status of universities that, in his opinion, are anti-Israel. Whatever your views...
Federal Budget and Economy
How Budget Commissions Can Make Deficit Reduction Harder
September 21, 2023 –
Congressional commissions generally serve one of two purposes. They either 1) provide political cover for lawmakers who want to achieve a goal but are afraid...
Individual Taxes
Will The Supreme Court Use A Fishing Dispute To Curb Treasury and IRS Tax Rules?
September 14, 2023 –
Is the US Supreme Court fishing for a way to upend decades of judicial deference to tax rules issued by the IRS and Treasury? The...
Individual Taxes
The House GOP’s Higher Standard Deduction Means Even Fewer Households Should Care About The SALT Fight
September 7, 2023 –
As House Republicans engage in a nasty internal battle over whether to raise the $10,000 cap on the state and local tax (SALT) deduction, a...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms
Ramaswamy: A Dynamic Debate Performance Paired With An Incoherent Economic Agenda
September 1, 2023 –
Following the first Republican presidential primary debate, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy seems to be having a moment. That makes it a good time to explore his...
Business Taxes
Could Congress Actually Crack Down On Tax Exempt Political Organizations?
August 16, 2023 –
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman David Schweikert (R-AZ) announced they are looking into political abuses by non-profit...
Individual Taxes
Why Should We Have To Pay Somebody To Help Us File An Individual Income Tax Return?
August 10, 2023 –
The growing war between the IRS and the commercial tax preparation industry over the agency’s efforts to create a free, in-house tax filing system got...
Campaigns, Proposals, and Reforms
'No Labels' Fiscal Policy Reads More Like No Details
July 19, 2023 –
No Labels Fiscal Policy Reads More Like No Details The bipartisan group No Labels is getting a lot of attention these days because it says...
Business Taxes
The IRA’s Green Energy Subsidies May Cost More Than Expected. Is That Good Or Bad?
July 14, 2023 –
It appears that the green energy tax breaks included in last year’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) are more popular among businesses than Congress imagined when...

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