SPOTLIGHT: Mortgage Market

Reuters/Rick Wilking - A sign referring to the "American Dream" of home ownership sits next to one offering foreclosure assistance.

Children and the Mortgage Crisis

Julia B. Isaacs and Phillip Lovell, April 2008

New research from Brookings and First Focus shows that nearly two million children will be directly impacted by the mortgage crisis. When forced from their homes, children’s education is disrupted, their peer relationships crumble, and the social networks that support them are fractured. Read More

Mortgage Market, Housing, Cost of Living, Children & Families, U.S. Economy

Spotlight: Iraq and The Economy

Reuters/Mario Anzuoni - Shopper Barbara Armour sits by her cart at a Wal-Mart store in Santa Clarita

Don’t Blame the War for the Economy

Martin Neil Baily, April 20, 2008

Martin Baily says that while many voters view the war in Iraq and the poor state of the economy as a cause and effect relationship, they are, in fact, two very different messes. Read More

Iraq, U.S. Economy

Spotlight: Economic Security

Reuters/Rebecca Cook - Truck driving school representative Joe Cistulli gives career information to Ford Motor auto assembly workers during a job fair at United Auto Workers local 600 union hall in Dearborn, Michigan.

Strengthening Job Transition Assistance

Lael Brainard, Spring 2008

Despite profound economic changes over recent years, America’s job transition, or worker adjustment, program remains one of the weakest among advanced economies. Lael Brainard proposes fundamental changes in the nation’s programs in order to provide enhanced training and financial support to help American workers compete. Read More

Competitiveness, Economic Mobility, Health Care, Trade, Unemployment

ECONOMIC STUDIES

The Gas Tax "Holiday"

William G. Gale, May 02, 2008

The idea of a gas tax "holiday" is now prominent in the presidential race but is gaining little traction in Congress. William Gale says that giving drivers a summer break from gas taxes may have political legs but will not help consumers at the pump. What is needed, Gale says, is a serious debate about the real issues.

U.S. Politics, Taxes, Energy, Elections

THE HAMILTON PROJECT

Financial Innovation and Housing: Implications for Monetary Policy

Douglas W. Elmendorf, April 21, 2008, The Brookings Institution

By examining the IMF's World Economic Outlook, Senior Fellow Doug Elmendorf, discusses ways in which innovations in housing finance around the world might change the way monetary policy deals with housing developments in the future. Read More

Macroeconomics, Housing, Mortgage Market, Monetary Policy

WOLFENSOHN CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENT

The New Philanthropy and Development Aid

Raj M. Desai and Homi Kharas, April 24, 2008, The Brookings Institution

While the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings made recent headlines, the Global Philanthropy Forum, gathering top private aid donors, fell in the shadows. These private aid donors will likely give more aid to the world’s poor this year than the institutions that convened the Spring Meetings. Raj Desai and Homi Kharas compare these two events and discuss how private aid can help to relieve global poverty. Read More

Foreign Aid, Global Governance, International Monetary Fund, Global Food Crisis, Development, Developing Countries, Multilateral Development Banks, World Bank, International Organizations

BUDGETING FOR NATIONAL PRIORITIES

Taking Back our Fiscal Future

April 2008, The Brookings Institution and the Heritage Foundation

Unsustainable deficits in the federal budget threaten the health and vigor of the American economy. When the next president and Congress take office in January 2009, they will face one crucial question that has been almost absent from the current election campaign: how to close the enormous gap between projected federal spending and revenues. Read More

Fiscal Policy, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, Federal Budget, Budget Deficit, Federal Reserve, Financial Institutions, Monetary Policy, U.S. Economy

Recent Research and Commentary

FOREIGN AID Disaster in Myanmar: Key Challenges for the International Community

Lex Rieffel, May 07, 2008

FOREIGN ASSISTANCE REFORM A New Face of Hunger Should Prompt a New Approach to Foreign Aid

Noam Unger, May 02, 2008

GLOBAL GOVERNANCE The Spring Meetings and the Global Economy

Colin I. Bradford, May 02, 2008

IMMIGRATION Communities with New Immigrants Deserve Federal Aid

Audrey Singer, May 02, 2008

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