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Up Front

Class Notes: Wealth taxation, US wage growth, and more

Chenoah Sinclair and Richard V. Reeves

Wednesday, January 15, 2020

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Automation and labor market institutions

Marcus Casey

Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Up Front

Power and radicalism: Building a middle class in the digital age

Ryan Avent

Tuesday, January 14, 2020

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Experts

Marcus Casey

Nonresident Fellow - Economic Studies

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Isabel V. Sawhill

Senior Fellow - Economic Studies, Center on Children and Families, Future of the Middle Class Initiative

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Richard V. Reeves

John C. and Nancy D. Whitehead Chair

Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

Director - Future of the Middle Class Initiative

Co-director - Center on Children and Families

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Podcast Episode

What does the GM auto workers’ strike tell us about the strength of unions?

Joseph W. Kane and Adrianna Pita

Friday, October 25, 2019

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Policy 2020

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

David Wessel

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

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Tackling zoning to help the middle class: 5 policy approaches

Tiffany Ford and Jenny Schuetz

Wednesday, July 17, 2019

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Income Inequality & Social Mobility

Middle class income growth is lagging the rich and the poor—how much is due to healthcare subsidies?

Machines and the middle class: 5 lessons from a discussion between Marcus Casey and James Bessen

Who’s to blame for high housing costs? It’s more complicated than you think.

Who gained from global growth last decade—and who will benefit by 2030?

Reports

The evolution of technological substitution in low-wage labor markets

The macroeconomics of automation: Data, theory, and policy analysis

Automation: A guide for policymakers

Organized labor and the employment trajectories of workers in routine jobs: Evidence from US panel data

To improve housing affordability, we need better alignment of zoning, taxes, and subsidies

Blog Posts

Class Notes: Wealth taxation, US wage growth, and more

Automation and labor market institutions

Power and radicalism: Building a middle class in the digital age

Events

Boosting growth across more of America

Productivity slowdown and wage stagnation: Causes and policy implications

Building Opportunity For All – Philadelphia

Related Books

Inequality

Does Character Matter?

Transpacific Rebalancing

Experts

Marcus Casey

Nonresident Fellow - Economic Studies

Isabel V. Sawhill

Senior Fellow - Economic Studies, Center on Children and Families, Future of the Middle Class Initiative

Richard V. Reeves

John C. and Nancy D. Whitehead Chair

Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

Director - Future of the Middle Class Initiative

Co-director - Center on Children and Families

Multimedia

What does the GM auto workers’ strike tell us about the strength of unions?

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

Tackling zoning to help the middle class: 5 policy approaches