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How the Pandemic Affected the TCJA’s Shift to A Chained CPI Index

February 4, 2022 –
The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) changed the way parts of the tax code are indexed for inflation. Instead of using the standard...
Federal Budget and Economy

Lessons from the 2009 Recovery Act for an Inclusive Recovery from the Pandemic

December 14, 2021 –
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...
Federal Budget and Economy

The Short Run Growth and Inflation Effects of Build Back Better Are Likely to Be Modest

November 17, 2021 –
A key issue in the congressional debate over President Biden’s Build Back Better (BBB) plan is how it would affect the economy over the next...
Federal Budget and Economy

It’s Long Overdue for Public Finance Scholars to Study Racism in the Tax Code

November 3, 2021 –
The murder of George Floyd, in May 2020, sparked a national reckoning and renewed attention to issues of racial equity and justice. This long-overdue awakening...
Federal Budget and Economy

Settling the Dust of the Coal Industry

November 3, 2021 –
Coal miners increasingly are victims of a cruel paradox. Even as production declines, more are suffering from deadly black lung disease. Yet falling production and...
Federal Budget and Economy

What is Dynamic Scoring? TPC’s Ben Page and John Buhl Discuss the Basics

November 1, 2021 –
With Congress in the midst of an intense debate over a big new tax and spending bill, policymakers are battling over the costs and economic...
Federal Budget and Economy

Why Progressivity in Tax Policy Is Not A Simple Matter

October 20, 2021 –
Policymakers and even policy analysts often consider the progressivity of specific proposals independently from the broader systems in which they operate. Consequently, they often leave...
Federal Budget and Economy

What Should the President Do When Debt Limit Inaction Forces Him To Violate The Law?

September 29, 2021 –
When Congress increases spending and cuts taxes then fails to extend the nation’s debt limit, it effectively orders the president to run deficits while prohibiting...
Federal Budget and Economy

TPC: The Ways & Means Reconciliation Bill Would Raise Taxes On High Income Households, Cut Taxes On Average For Nearly Everyone Else

September 28, 2021 –
All major provisions of the House Ways & Means Committee’s budget reconciliation tax bill would cut 2022 taxes on average for households making $200,000 or...
Federal Budget and Economy

Congress's Fiscal Drama Isn't What It Seems

September 24, 2021 –
Welcome to Fall. The season where, predicably, the weather gets cooler, the leaves change color, and Congress puts on its annual fiscal crisis. This year,...
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State Revenue Forecasts Before COVID-19 and Directions Forward

Lucy Dadayan
April 2, 2020

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