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Summers Criticizes Handling of Crisis
December 20, 2007
The Washington Post
Lawrence Summers suggests that the risk of a prolonged recession is higher than most economists recognize.
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U.S. War on Poverty Ignores One Group of Victims
December 17, 2007
Bloomberg.com
John Karl Scholz's study provides a perspective of tax burdens on low-income childless individuals.
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The Tax Code We Deserve: What the Inevitable... (mp3)
National Economists Club
Jason Furman, Director of the Hamilton Project and Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution and Kevin Hassett, Director of Economic Studies, American Enterprise Institute. Preview the tax policy debate in next year's Presidential...
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Weak dollar not yet a factor in U.S. election
November 21, 2007
Reuters
With the declining dollar, Doug Elmendorf suggests that this could affect American buying habits.
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Why Some Mortgage Bailouts Make Sense [Subscription required]
November 15, 2007
The Wall Street Journal
Doug Elmendorf comments on one of the key public policy questions surrounding the subprime lending crisis - that of foreclosures.
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Cousin to a Tax Reform: Rep. Rangel is on the right track
November 12, 2007
The Washington Post
Ways & Means Committee Chair Charlie Rangel's tax overhaul plan has remained center-stage in recent news. As Hamilton Project Director Jason Furman noted, "the Rangel proposal would address the paradox that the United States has the second-highest corporate tax rate among the 30 leading industrialized nations but collects the fourth-lowest amount of corporate tax revenue as a share of the economy because its tax code is riddled with exceptions."
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Reform Corporate Taxes
October 27, 2007
Washingtonpost.com
The system for taxing business is broken; Ways and Means Chairman Charles Rangel is proposing a fix. Senior Fellow Jason Furman argues that the Rangel plan opens an important discussion that others-including the Bush Administration-should join.
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Rangel's Tax Overhaul
October 25, 2007
CNBC.com
Hamilton Project Director Jason Furman commented on the Rangel tax plan for CNBC.
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Democrats Have Advantage on Health, Boosting Clinton, Poll Says
October 25, 2007
Bloomberg.com
With health care taking center stage in the 2008 presidential election, Hamilton Project Director Jason Furman explains why the Democratic candidates are getting higher marks for their health care reform proposals.
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Tax Politics
October 17, 2007
NPR, The Diane Rehm Show
Hamilton Project Director Jason Furman joined National Public Radio's Diane Rehm for a discussion on the economics and politics behind various tax proposals.
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Income Inequality Gap Widens
October 12, 2007
The Wall Street Journal
Hamilton Project Director Jason Furman comments on the growing inequality income gap: "We've had a 30-year trend of increasing inequality. There was an artificial reduction in that trend following the bursting of the stock-market bubble in 2000."
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Furman on SCHIP
October 4, 2007
Greg Mankiw's Blog
Hamilton Project Director Jason Furman joins economist Greg Mankiw's blog with his take on the recent SCHIP bill and the implications of a presidential veto of this legislation.
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Summers: Fed Fouls Out On Consumer Protection
September 26, 2007
The Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal columnists Sudeep Reddy and Greg Ip discuss Former Treasury Secretary and Hamilton Project Advisory Council member Larry Summers' views on the Fed's role in consumer protection regulation.
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Was the Fed Too-Easy Too-Long? Yes, With a Twist
September 19, 2007
Wall Street Journal Blog
Wall Street Journal columnist Greg Ip comments on the Hamilton Project and Brookings Senior Fellow Doug Elmendorf's new paper focused on the recent financial market turmoil.
- Democrats Unveil Tax Reform Plans
September 7, 2007
The Financial Times
As Congress considers a broad tax reform package, Hamilton Project Director Jason Furman was called to testify before the House Ways & Means Committee. In his remarks, Furman noted that the 2001-enacted tax cuts "have exacerbated after-tax income disparities, thus resulting in more inequality within the United States.
- The New Social Contract [Subscription required]
September 7, 2007
The New York Times
New York Times columnist David Brooks comments on the work of Hamilton Project Policy Director Jason Bordoff and outside expert Stuart Butler (of the Heritage Foundation) in helping define a new social contract.
- This is Where Fannie & Freddie Step In
August 26, 2007
The Financial Times
Hamilton Project Advisory Council member Lawrence H. Summers outlines a series of policy questions regarding the current financial crisis and provides a historical context for this type of financial disruption.
- Point of View
August 17, 2007
The Chronicle of Higher Education
In The Chronicle of Higher Education's "Point of View," Hamilton Project expert Susan Dynarski of Harvard University discusses the need to simplify and re-focus education tax incentives to help promote a more educated and competitive workforce.
- Healing Healthcare: Agents Of Change
July 25, 2007
CNBC
Bertha Coombs of CNBC interviewed two panelists from The Hamilton Project's July 17th event, " Who's Got the Cure: Four Options for Achieving Universal Coverage," for her series on "Healing Healthcare."
- U.S. health insurers aim to shape reform process
July 20, 2007
Reuters
Hamilton Project Director Jason Furman comments on the reform process for the U.S. healthcare system.
- Creeps and bounds
July 19, 2007
The Economist
The Economist reviews four proposals released by The Hamilton Project for achieving universal health care coverage.
- Four ways to cover all
July 17, 2007
United Press International
UPI reports on The Hamilton Project release of four possible options for universal health coverage on Tuesday. While each plan varies widely, they all aim to dramatically expand coverage.
- Jim Webb and the Populist Pitch
June 28, 2007
Washington Post
David Ignatius of the Washington Post references The Hamilton Project's recent tax strategy paper, which makes the case for restoring the progressivity of the U.S. tax system.
- Larry Summers on China, Taxes, and Growth
June 21, 2007
U.S. News & World Report
In a recent interview with U.S. News & World Report, former treasury secretary and Hamilton Project Advisory Council member Larry Summers discusses changes to the tax code that would better prepare the United States to meet the challenges of globalization.
- The Case for Taxing Globalization's Big Winners
June 14, 2007
The Wall Street Journal
David Wessel of The Wall Street Journal reports on the emerging link between a more equitable distribution of benefits from globalization and necessary reforms to the U.S. tax system. In a recent tax forum sponsored by The Hamilton Project, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers commented, "It is best not to address increasingly salient concerns about inequality by interfering with trade.... His solution: use progressive taxation to offset some, but not all, of the increase in inequality."
- Summers Wants 'Comprehensive' Business-Tax Overhaul
June 12, 2007
Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News reports on The Hamilton Project's June 12th tax forum, at which "former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers called for a comprehensive overhaul of U.S. corporate taxes to counter slowing revenue from business levies."
- Interrogating inequality
June 12, 2007
The Economist
Hamilton Project Director Jason Furman is a guest blogger on Economist.com.
- Companies seen warming to idea of health reform
June 4, 2007
ABC News
Hamilton Project Director Jason Furman comments on the growing interest by U.S. corporations in health care reform.
- Broken Contract
Summer 2007
Democracy: A Journal of Ideas
Hamilton Project Policy Director Jason Bordoff is featured in the summer 2007 issue of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. Bordoff's article proposes a New Social Compact to understand the obligations that the state, private sector, and citizens have to one another in the 21st century global economy.
- Gold Stars and Dunce Caps
May 1, 2007
New York Times
For inspiration, presidential candidates might look at this bold three-part plan for improving American schools: End requirements for teacher certification. Make tenure more difficult to get so weak teachers can be weeded out after two or three years on the job. Award $15,000 annual bonuses to good teachers for as long as they teach at schools in low-income areas. Those ideas are cribbed from a provocative report on education from the Hamilton Project.
- Cost Counts: Why progressives should learn to love cost sharing in health care
April 12, 2007
The American Prospect
The question is how to create a cost-sharing system that is not merely progressive, but smart. And some of the most exciting thinking on the subject comes from a new paper by the economist Jason Furman.
- What's Changed In the Protracted Health-Care Debate
April 12, 2007
Wall Street Journal [Subscription required]
Jason Furman...floated a proposal this week that says Americans ought to pay more for the health care they buy (with the best-off paying more out of pocket than the poor).
- A New Prescription to Curb Health-care Spending
April 10, 2007
Wall Street Journal
Furman, now director of The Hamilton Project, suggests that the U.S. could reduce health-care spending big time if people shared a larger slice of the cost of care.
- Negotiating Good – To a Point
April 10, 2007
United Press International
Giving Medicare the power to negotiate with drug companies for lower prices on Part D prescription drugs for seniors might lower the program's overall cost, but such power should only extend to some classes of drugs, health economists said Tuesday, April 10th
- Ex-Harvard Prez Sets Sights on K-12 Reform
March 30, 2007
U.S. News & World Report
Since he resigned as Harvard president last spring, Summers has signed on with at least three major education groups.... Yesterday, he sat with civil rights activist Kati Haycock and New York City schools Chancellor Joel Klein on a Brookings Institution panel about how schools can help the economy.
- An Opportunity on Trade
March 28, 2007
Washington Post
The country's important trade agenda is to make sure that some of the economic benefits of trade and globalization--estimated at $1 trillion a year--are used to cushion the blow to workers who are hurt. What would such a safety net entail? It's not all that hard to figure out, thanks in part to work done by...the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution.
- Making Up for Lower Pay
March 6, 2007
Washington Post
Congressional leaders want to expand the program, known as wage insurance as part of a broader effort to ease the anxieties of middle-class Americans who feel threatened by the globalization of business and a churning U.S. labor market...The Hamilton Project urges continued trade liberalization along with the creation of universal health insurance, more portable pensions, more focused job-training programs and wage insurance.
- Scholars Push Ideas to Bolster US Workforce
February 21, 2007
Education Week
The Brookings Institution's Hamilton Project has outlined proposed changes in early education, teacher quality, and college financial aid that it says would "foster the creativity, innovation, and analytical rigor necessary to keep America at the leading frontier of [the] global economy."
- Bush, Democrats Sound Hawkish on Budget, Head for a Stalemate
February 2, 2007
Bloomberg
President George W. Bush and Capitol Hill Democrats vow to erase the federal budget deficit within a few years.
- Democrats Want to Rise With the Middle Class
February 1, 2007
Washington Post
By any measure, the middle class is not becoming poor. But it has stopped getting ahead quite so rapidly.
- A Global Balancing Act
January 30, 2007
New York Times
"The best thing we can do for free trade is focus on strengthening domestic policies that strengthen social insurance," said Jason Furman, director of the Hamilton Project.
- Tackling America's income divide
January 29, 2007
Seattle Times
Are we truly on a swing back to centrist and pragmatic politics? Like a first robin of spring, the House's fast vote to raise the minimum wage to $7.25 in a phased two-year process, up from the $5.15 figure at which the Republican-controlled Congress left it frozen for the past decade, is a good omen.