U.S. Economic Performance

A protester takes part in a demonstration ahead of the NATO meeting in Chicago (REUTERS/Jim Young).

Opinion

How Much Do Americans Care About Income Inequality?

April 30, 2013, Scott Winship

Scott Winship examines the ongoing news surrounding income inequality, yet explains that there is little evidence that Americans are particularly bothered by inequality, and unsurprisingly, do not want government to reduce it.

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In the News

We've been in a very, very slow recovery now since 2009 and what we've been seeing is a very, very slow decline in the unemployment rate... increases in employment that barely keep up with the growth of the population.
May 3, 2013, William T. Dickens, Yahoo! News
In the News

The number of unemployed continues to shrink, and job gains entirely in the private sector continue to be fast enough so that we can be whittling down the problem of both long-term unemployment and regular unemployment.
March 9, 2013, Gary Burtless, National Public Radio
In the News

[Washington, DC's reliance on goverment is] a relatively less dangerous addiction than others. Diversification can never be sold until it’s too late. Complexity breeds resilience. It’s true in natural systems, and it’s true in economics.
March 7, 2013, Mark Muro, Washington Post
In the News

I think Detroit faces some of the toughest challenges of any American city.
March 6, 2013, Bruce Katz, The Craig Fahle Show-WDET
In the News

It’s not just waiting for government to do something [for the economy]. A lot of the actions that need to be taken in [Rhode Island] really could be taken by private, civic and university leaders. The economy is co-produced. It’s not produced by government. It’s produced by networks of leaders.
February 27, 2013, Bruce Katz, Rhode Island Public Radio
In the News

What has a chance of going somewhere if the president and the Congress can get back together is some version of a grand bargain, and a grand bargain means we have to slow the growth of the entitlements, especially Medicare and Medicaid. We have to put Social Security back on a firm foundation. And we have to reform our tax code so it raises some more revenue. We need to do that and stop fooling around with this counterproductive thing called the sequester, which is bad macro policy, it would reduce employment when we don't want to.
February 23, 2013, Alice M. Rivlin, CNN
Podcast

Real Specifics: 15 Ways to Rethink the Federal Budget

February 20, 2013, Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney
In the News

What we haven’t really achieved in our system after decades of thinking about [immigration policy] is how to adjust the admissions policy to better suit our economic needs in something closer to real time. That is going to be part of the discussion in the next couple of months. Do we make changes based on some market demand, and how do we measure that? Do we set out knowing what we want and then adjust our policies?
February 19, 2013, Audrey Singer, Bloomberg
In the News

In Atlanta, the poor population in the city held steady between 2000 and 2010 while the poor population in the suburbs grew by 122 percent—more than doubling over the course of the decade. Suburban poverty brings added challenges. It’s not just about people moving to the suburbs. It’s also people living in the suburbs slipping down the economic ladder.
February 18, 2013, Elizabeth Kneebone
In the News

Innovation tends to happen best when you’re drawing on diverse and loosely connected networks. Metropolitan areas bring together people whose ideas intermix, recombine and explode in new directions.
February 18, 2013, Jennifer Bradley