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Mini house and heart, family members, US money bags on rows of rising coins on table. Family tax benefit, residential property tax concept: depicts home equity loan, real estate business investment.

Up Front

What is the Child Tax Credit? And how much of it is refundable?

David Wessel

Friday, January 22, 2021

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington January 20, 2021. Patrick Semansky/Pool via REUTERS

The Avenue

Biden-won counties are home to 67 million more Americans than Trump-won counties

William H. Frey

Thursday, January 21, 2021

Up Front

Hutchins Roundup: Debt forbearance, online recruiting, and more

Sophia Campbell, Lorena Hernandez Barcena, Louise Sheiner, and Kadija Yilla

Thursday, January 21, 2021

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Events

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Brookings Papers on Economic Activity: Fall 2019

Edited by Janice C. Eberly and James H. Stock

2020

Unlocking Africa’s Business Potential

By Landry Signé

2020

Equitable Land Use for Asian Infrastructure

Edited by Piyush Tiwari, Grant B. Stillman, and Naoyuki Yoshino

2020

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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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Alan Berube

Senior Fellow and Deputy Director - Metropolitan Policy Program

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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

MOSCOW, RUSSIA JANUARY 7, 2021: Work underway to clean up a former dumping ground at the construction site of Moscow State Universitys Vorobyovy Gory Innovative Science and Technology Center (INTTs). The site with an area of 300,000 square metres is expected to be cleaned up in one and a half months. The project is unofficially referred to as research and technology valley or science valley. In 2019, the Russian government announced plans to establish 15 specialised scientific and educational centres (referred to as valleys) based at Russias leading universities as part of the Nauka Project. Vorobyovy Gory Innovative Science and Technology Centre will be granted special legal regimes and tax breaks similar to those granted to Skolkovo. Anton Novoderezhkin/TASS.No use Russia.

Up Front

Disrupting the waste management industry through technology

Sanjay Patnaik and Michael Allegretti

Thursday, January 14, 2021

People walk past a sign while wearing masks to prevent contracting and spreading novel coronavirus in San Francisco, California, United States on January 3, 2021. California has implemented shelter-in-place order to encourage people to stay home during the winter holiday to counter the surge of the coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in the global pandemic. U.S. confirmed cases has surpassed 20 millions on the first day of 2021. (Photo by Yichuan Cao/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

Podcast Episode

The top economic issues in 2021

Stephanie Aaronson, Wendy Edelberg, and Fred Dews

Friday, January 8, 2021

Image: US flag, dollar bill, COVID-19 relief check

Podcast Episode

Does the latest COVID relief bill do enough?

William G. Gale and Adrianna Pita

Tuesday, December 22, 2020

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More on U.S. Economy

U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell takes questions during a news conference following the two-day Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) policy meeting in Washington, U.S., March 20, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RC1E639BA290

Who has to leave the Federal Reserve next?

Kadija Yilla and David Wessel

Friday, January 22, 2021

Dismantling white privilege starts with undoing racist housing policies

Andre M. Perry and Stuart Yasgur

Thursday, January 14, 2021

Hutchins Roundup: quantitative tightening, zombie credit, and more

Sophia Campbell, David Wessel, and Kadija Yilla

Thursday, January 14, 2021

Four reasons why more public housing isn’t the solution to affordability concerns

Jenny Schuetz

Thursday, January 14, 2021

Rethinking social insurance: Policies to protect workers and families

Wendy Edelberg and Stephanie Lu

Thursday, January 7, 2021

Hutchins Roundup: School spending, trade within the EU, and more

Sophia Campbell, Louise Sheiner, and Kadija Yilla

Thursday, January 7, 2021

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Reports

A conversation about racial justice and worker mobility

A conversation about economic growth and dynamism

Fiscal policy advice for Joe Biden and Congress

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

Senior Fellow and Deputy Director - Metropolitan Policy Program

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

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