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The Pros and Cons of State Tax Breaks for Senior Citizens
Bayliss J. Camp and Charles Lockhart, May 2013
Public Budgets and Taxes, Aging Society
How the Heritage Foundation Uses Strange Math and Flawed Logic to Inflate the Cost of Immigration Reform
Richard Alba, May 2013
Public Budgets and Taxes, Immigrants & Immigration Reform
How Competition to Attract Businesses Leads to Economic Losses for Cities and States
Cynthia L. Rogers, April 2013
Public Budgets and Taxes, Economic Growth & Innovation
Money Matters - For All Schoolchildren
Melissa F. Weiner, February 2013
Public Budgets and Taxes, School Reform, K-12 Education
Deficit Hawks Reflect the Views of the Wealthy, Not the Majority
Benjamin I. Page, February 2013
Public Budgets and Taxes, Media and Public Opinion
Why There is Nothing Scary about the U.S. National Debt
Anne Mayhew, February 2013
Public Budgets and Taxes
How Did We Get Here? The Roots of Deficit Brinksmanship
Joseph White, February 2013
Public Budgets and Taxes, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy
Does Providing Publicly Funded Jobs to Hard-to-Employ People Reduce Crime and Drug Use?
Sarah Shannon, January 2013
Public Budgets and Taxes, Jobs and Workers, Criminal Justice
The Case for Curbing Oklahoma's Oil and Gas Tax Breaks
David Blatt, January 2013
Public Budgets and Taxes, Energy
How Debt Showdowns Encourage Credit Bubbles
Sarah Quinn, January 2013
Public Budgets and Taxes, Economic Growth & Innovation, Housing
The Strengths and Limits of the Earned Income Tax Credit as a Tool to Fight Poverty
Daniel S. Feder, November 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes, Antipoverty Policy
America's Low Taxes in Comparative Perspective
Andrea Louise Campbell, November 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes
When and Why Have Americans Supported Higher Taxes?
Elizabeth Pearson, November 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes
Who Pays America's Taxes?
Alexander Hertel-Fernandez and Vanessa Williamson, November 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes
Could Reducing Tax Expenditures Tame the Federal Debt?
Leonard Burman and Marvin M. Phaup, October 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes
How Mandated Auto Insurance Helps Make Sense of the Individual Mandate in Health Reform
Jennifer B. Wriggins, September 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes, Health Care Reform
How the Ryan Budget Would Undercut American Education
Lynne Miller, September 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes, School Reform, Higher Education
What the Ryan Budget Means for Missouri Families
David Brian Robertson and Theda Skocpol, September 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes, Cities and Regions, Family Policies
Why America Needs to Regulate Career Programs that Burden Taxpayers and Break Promises to Students
John Dorrer, September 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes, Higher Education
The Ryan Republican Budget: A Blueprint for Permanent Austerity
Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson , July 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes
What a Tax on Wall Street Speculation Can Do for America
Dean Baker, July 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes, Economic Growth & Innovation
Why the Republican-Ryan Plan for Medicaid Would Hurt the Most Vulnerable and Put the Fifty States in a Bind
Colleen M. Grogan, July 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes, Medicare & Medicaid
What the Ryan Budget Plan Would Mean for Virginia
Christopher Howard, July 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes
Will Taxes on Sugary Soft Drinks Improve Health?
Jason Fletcher, July 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes, Pharmaceutical & Food Regulation
The Ryan Budget and Michigan: A Few Win, but Millions Lose
Luke Shaefer and Theda Skocpol, July 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes
The High Stakes for Maine in Fights about the Ryan Budget
Luisa S. Deprez and Amy Fried, July 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes
What Women Will Lose if the Ryan Budget Becomes Law
Ann Orloff and Christine Percheski, July 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes, Women
How the Ryan Budget Supported by House Republicans Would Devastate Low-Income Americans
Scott W. Allard, July 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes
If Republicans Slash Funding for Low-Income Americans, Can Nonprofit and Religious Charities Fill the Gap?
Scott W. Allard, July 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes
Why the Ryan Budget is a Bad Deal for Ohio
Peter M. Shane, July 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes
The Ryan Budget and Medicare - Headed the Wrong Way
Larry Polivka, July 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes, Medicare & Medicaid
How Alaska Citizens Benefit Equally from Shared Wealth
Michael W. Howard, June 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes, Environment
Raising Excise Taxes Can Help Fight Alcohol Abuse
Philip J. Cook, May 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes
Why the Rich Have an Interest in Paying Higher Taxes
Robert H. Frank, May 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes, Inequality & the Middle Class
How Ronald Reagan Taught Republicans to Love Tax Cuts
Monica Prasad, April 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes, U.S. Foreign Policy, International Development
The Future of America's Transportation Infrastructure
Thomas Fisher, March 2012
Science & Technology, Public Budgets and Taxes, Economic Growth & Innovation, Environment
Can America Afford to Maintain Its Position in the World?
Richard Lachmann, March 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes, U.S. Foreign Policy
When Cooperation through Government Makes Sense
Jane Mansbridge, February 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy
Tax Expenditures: What They are and Who Benefits
Christopher Howard, January 2012
Public Budgets and Taxes
How Government by the Privileged Distorts Economic Policy
Nicholas Carnes, January 2012
Unions & the Labor Movement, Public Budgets and Taxes, Inequality & the Middle Class, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy
How Washington Has Made the Rich Richer – And Abandoned the Middle Class
Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson , October 2011
Public Budgets and Taxes, Inequality & the Middle Class, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy
Why Americans Can't See Government -- and Why It Matters
Suzanne Mettler, October 2011
Public Budgets and Taxes