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Feb 15

Liberals Against Regulatory Traps

Liberals have resisted overregulation that defeats liberal goals before. They should do so again. There is a growing set of those on the center left who have turned their attention toward rethinking regulations and processes that hinder the realization of liberal goals. “Supply-side progressivism” (also known as “a liberalism that…

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Liberals Against Regulatory Traps
Liberals Against Regulatory Traps
Politics

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Dec 6, 2022

Dreaming Dreams of a Child Tax Credit Automatic Stabilizer

Congress should set the CTC to auto-morph into a child allowance during recessions and emergencies. As we enter the lame-duck session of Congress, the tragically fallen enhanced Child Tax Credit is back on the agenda. Both Matt Yglesias and Vox’s Rachel Cohen have pieces dissecting the state of congressional negotiations…

Child Tax Credit

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Child Tax Credit

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Nov 14, 2022

The Democrats’ lame-duck debt ceiling options

How to dismantle an economic bomb on a party-line vote With Republicans projected to retake an extremely narrow majority in the House of Representatives, congressional Democrats are searching for ways to neutralize the possibility of high-stakes games of chicken with the country’s self-imposed debt ceiling. …

Politics

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Politics

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Aug 9, 2022

Fixing the Inflation Reduction Act’s Electric Vehicle Pile-Up

The solution is more supply-side policy — Democrats in Congress are on the verge of taking historic action to combat climate change. The clean-energy spending provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act passed by the Senate would do the lion’s share of getting the United States within striking distance of its emissions reduction goals. …

Politics

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Politics

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Jul 15, 2022

Manchin’s climate concern is a solvable problem

Strike a deal on climate now — but hold on to the money until inflation cools. Last night, Senator Joe Manchin lobbed yet another grenade into President Biden’s legislative agenda. With delicate negotiations over the last shreds of Biden’s Build Back Better agenda underway, Manchin abruptly declared that he wanted…

Biden

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Manchin’s climate concern is a solvable problem
Manchin’s climate concern is a solvable problem
Biden

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Jun 23, 2022

We Need a Medium-Term Plan for Our Energy Supply

Government intervention to get us through the in-between Americans are feeling the squeeze of record-high gas prices. The average price of a gallon of gas in the United States is kissing $5.00, with little sign of significant easing on the horizon. …

Politics

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We Need a Medium-Term Plan for Our Energy Supply
We Need a Medium-Term Plan for Our Energy Supply
Politics

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Jun 13, 2022

How Biden’s Student Debt Plan Will Lower Inflation

A spoonful of forgiveness sugar helps the repayment medicine go down President Biden is reportedly considering instructing the Department of Education to cancel $10,000 in student loan debt for each borrower (limited to individuals earning under $150,000 and married couples earning under $300,000). Critics have blasted the plan, arguing that…

Biden

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Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Won’t Make Inflation Worse
Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Won’t Make Inflation Worse
Biden

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Jun 1, 2022

What if Joe Manchin is a secret supply-side progressive?

Democrats, pivot to the supply side to achieve electric vehicle abundance It’s no secret that Senator Joe Manchin essentially gets to decide whether President Biden’s legislative agenda lives or dies. …

Politics

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What if Joe Manchin is a secret supply-side progressive?
What if Joe Manchin is a secret supply-side progressive?
Politics

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May 4, 2022

Should Democrats compromise on the Child Tax Credit?

The expanded Child Tax Credit wasn’t supposed to be a one-and-done program. Weeks after he took office, Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan funded an American child allowance for one year — but the program’s advocates all expected it to be extended beyond 2021. …

Politics

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Politics

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Apr 22, 2022

The Great Recession comes for Millennials again

Millennials just can’t get out of the shadow of the Great Recession. The 2008 housing crash led to a global financial crisis, triggering the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. The economy cratered, and unemployment soared to 10 percent — just at the time many millennials were graduating college…

Housing

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The Great Recession comes for Millennials again
The Great Recession comes for Millennials again
Housing

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Joel Dodge

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