Federal Fiscal Policy

Blog Posts

Aug 27, 2021; Detroit, Michigan, USA; The downtown Detroit skyline is seen from the exterior of Ford Field before a pre-season game between the Detroit Lions and Indianapolis Colts. Mandatory Credit: David Reginek-USA TODAY Sports

The Avenue

Local and national leaders must organize themselves better to build back better

Alan Berube and Mary Jean Ryan

Wednesday, October 13, 2021

A general view of the U.S. Federal Reserve, in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, September 29, 2021. Earlier this week, two high ranking members of the Federal Reserve resigned after disclosures of financial dealings, and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) declared her opposition to the re-nomination of current Fed Chair Jay Powell. (Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

The Avenue

Fed should keep labor markets tight for a more inclusive economy

Anthony Barr and Kristen Broady

Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Up Front

The new child tax credit does more than just cut poverty

Jason Jabbari, Leah Hamilton, Stephen Roll, and Michal Grinstein-Weiss

Friday, September 24, 2021

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Events

BPEA Fall 2021 conference

10:00 AM - 5:10 PM EDT

The Brookings Center for Regulation and Markets Graduate Workshop 3: Research and data at the Federal Reserve Board

1:00 PM - 5:30 PM EDT

The economic outlook: A conversation with the Fed’s Randal Quarles

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM EDT

Online only

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Related Books

The $13 Trillion Question

Edited by David Wessel

2015

To the Edge

By Philip A. Wallach

2015

Transpacific Rebalancing

Edited by Barry P. Bosworth and Masahiro Kawai

2015

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Experts

William G. Gale

The Arjay and Frances Fearing Miller Chair in Federal Economic Policy

Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

Director - Retirement Security Project

Co-Director - Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center

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Louise Sheiner

The Robert S. Kerr Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

Policy Director - The Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy

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Adam Looney

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

Executive Director, Marriner S. Eccles Institute, University of Utah

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Multimedia

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) heads to a meeting in the office of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to wrap up work on coronavirus economic aid legislation, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Washington, U.S., March 22, 2020. REUTERS/Mary F. Calvert

Podcast Episode

What’s in the Senate’s $2 trillion economic package?

Jay Shambaugh and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

A "Now Hiring" sign hangs on the door to the Urban Outfitters store at Quincy Market in Boston, Massachusetts September 5, 2014. U.S. employers hired the fewest number of workers in eight months in August and more Americans gave up the hunt for jobs, providing a cautious Federal Reserve with more reasons to wait longer before raising interest rates. Nonfarm payrolls increased 142,000 last month after expanding by 212,000 in July, the Labor Department said on Friday. The jobless rate fell one-tenth of a percentage point to 6.1 percent, partly because people dropped out of the labor force. REUTERS/Brian Snyder (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT)

Podcast Episode

The top economic issues in 2020

Stephanie Aaronson, Louise Sheiner, and Fred Dews

Friday, January 3, 2020

A general view of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building in Washington May 27, 2015. Tax return information for about 100,000 U.S. taxpayers was illegally accessed by cyber criminals over the past four months, U.S. IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said on Tuesday, the latest in a series of data thefts that have alarmed American consumers. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - GF10000109446

Policy 2020

Who are the rich and how might we tax them more?

David Wessel

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

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More on Federal Fiscal Policy

Hutchins Center Fiscal Impact Measure

Friday, October 1, 2021

Wendy Edelberg testifies on the federal government’s COVID-19 relief and response efforts and its impact

Wendy Edelberg

Thursday, September 30, 2021

The employment impact of a green fiscal push

David Popp, Francesco Vona, Giovanni Marin, and Ziqiao Chen

Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Young boy with backpack and mother walking down the road holding hands.

The expanded Child Tax Credit: The CTC’s history, impact, and uncertain future

Chris Miller

Friday, June 18, 2021

Main Street Shrewsbury, Pennsylvania in Southern York County during fall

Reimagining federal rural policy: A podcast series with Rural Matters

Anthony F. Pipa and Natalie Geismar

Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Strengthening the Child Tax Credit: What comes next?

Robert Greenstein

Wednesday, May 26, 2021

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Reports

BPEA Fall 2021 conference

The Brookings Center for Regulation and Markets Graduate Workshop 3: Research and data at the Federal Reserve Board

The economic outlook: A conversation with the Fed’s Randal Quarles

The Arjay and Frances Fearing Miller Chair in Federal Economic Policy

Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

Director - Retirement Security Project

Co-Director - Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center

The Robert S. Kerr Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

Policy Director - The Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

Executive Director, Marriner S. Eccles Institute, University of Utah