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.
Only a handful of all employees and fewer than 60 percent of tipped workers would benefit from proposals to exempt gratuities from federal income tax,...
One of the most common tax complaints I hear from small business owners is about filing their taxes. Paying isn’t their biggest objection, though they...
Both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are promoting a troubling idea: Hyper-targeting tax subsidies to narrowly favored activities or occupations. While Trump and Harris are...
GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump is making inflation-fighting a key policy plank in his campaign. The problem: Many of his specific policy prescriptions would make...
A worldwide 10 percent tariff and a 60 percent tariff on Chinese goods proposed by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump would lower average after-tax incomes...
If Vice President Kamala Harris's past record is any indication, a President Harris would be a strong proponent for using the tax code to achieve her policy goals.
Former president Donald Trump’s plan to repeal the tax on Social Security benefits would lower taxes for US households by an average of $550, according...
Ask seven public policy think tanks how to get the federal budget on a “strong, more sustainable fiscal path” and you’ll inevitably get seven different...
The Congressional Budget Office’s latest fiscal update is filled with terrifying numbers: The projected deficit for this fiscal year will hit 7 percent of Gross...
Former President Trump’s proposal to exempt all tips from federal tax would benefit few tipped workers and hurt many. Tax-free tips might help a relatively...
Slowing climate change has been a signature issue for President Biden. But Biden also has been an ardent booster of American manufacturing. Recently, he imposed...
In a recent New York Times column (paywall), Berkeley economist Gabriel Zucman calculated that the highest-income Americans pay only about 23 percentof their income in...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A policy agenda developed by influential conservative groups for a second Donald Trump presidential term already has received attention for its controversial immigration recommendations ...
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...
