Tax Policy Center

Great Recession

Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

Why State and Local Governments are Hurting the Recovery

Until the Great Recession, state and local governments played a remarkably constant role through down business cycles. For four decades, when the economy turned sour,...
April 23, 2013Benjamin H. Harris
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox

Taxes Don’t Always Drive the Economy--Sometimes the Economy Drives Taxes

Don’t tell my Tax Policy Center colleagues I said this, but it isn’t always about taxes. If you listened to the presidential campaign this week,...
July 12, 2012Howard Gleckman