Tax Policy Center

Great Recession

State and Local Issues: TaxVox
As the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) celebrated its two-year anniversary on March 11, some applauded a law that sped an economic recovery while others...
March 14, 2023Richard C. Auxier
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
The federal government and many state and local governments are placing equity at the forefront of their pandemic relief efforts. But to effectively follow through...
December 14, 2021Aravind Boddupalli
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
There are ugly charts, and then there is this, courtesy of the folks at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Over the past half-decade,...
January 7, 2020Howard Gleckman
State and Local Issues: TaxVox
Late last October, Governor Dan Malloy approved a two-year $40.2 billion budget for Connecticut more than 100 days after the fiscal year began. A strongly...
March 9, 2018Kim S. Rueben
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
President Trump, who sees himself as the toughest guy in the room, is, along with his GOP allies in Congress, disarming the federal government’s ability...
February 14, 2018Howard Gleckman
Federal Budget and Economy: TaxVox
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
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