Equitable Growth organizes endorsement by 58 scholars of Measuring Real Income Growth Act
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Among endorsees are former chair of the Federal Reserve, two former chairs of the Council of Economic Advisers, two Nobel laureates FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 18, 2019 CONTACT: Erica Handloff, 202-746-5747 ehandloff@equitablegrowth.org Washington — Today, the Washington Center for Equitable Grow…
Equitable Growth to Release Resource on Economic Inequality and Growth to Inform 2020 Policy Debate
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 1, 2019 CONTACT: Erica Handloff, 202-545-3354 ehandloff@equitablegrowth.org WASHINGTON – Today, at its Vision 2020 conference, the Washington Center for Equitable Growth announced that in January, it will release a compilation of 20 innovative, evidence-based, and conc…
Equitable Growth Announces Claudia Sahm as New Director of Macroeconomic Policy
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 28, 2019 CONTACT: Elena Waskey, 202-545-3357 ewaskey@equitablegrowth.org WASHINGTON – The Washington Center for Equitable Growth today announced that Claudia Sahm will join the organization in November as its new director of macroeconomic policy. She is currently a sect…
Statement by Heather Boushey on congressional hearing about measuring U.S. economic inequality
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The Congressional Joint Economic Committee today is holding the first-ever hearing to discuss new proposals to measure who prospers when the U.S. economy grows, an acknowledgement that Gross Domestic Product growth is no longer a sufficient measure for understanding the health of our economy. Congre…
New Report Reveals Harsh Reality of Unstable Work Schedules on Workers, Families
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30,000-person survey found women, people of color among hardest hit FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 16, 2019 AT 5:00 AM CONTACT: Giovanni Rocco, 202-753-6521 grocco@equitablegrowth.org Washington, D.C. – New research released today by The Shift Project at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employ…
Experts Call for a Greater Focus on the Economy in the Fourth Democratic Debate; Warn Against Relying on Faulty Economic Ideas
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Author: Heather Boushey Washington, D.C. – Ahead of the fourth Democratic primary presidential debate, Dr. Heather Boushey, president and CEO of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth; Chris Hughes, co-chair of the Economic Security Project; Michael Linden, executive director of the Groundwork C…
Washington Center for Equitable Growth invests more than $200,000 to explore effects of paid family leave
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Research will focus on how state-level policies have affected labor market participation, health outcomes Washington, D.C. – The Washington Center for Equitable Growth announced today that it will award $225,800 to two research teams to explore the effects of state-level paid family and medical leav…
Washington Center for Equitable Growth awards more than $1 million to scholars exploring how economic inequality affects economic growth
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New research will focus on inequality’s effects on human capital, tax policy, market concentration, and the labor market Washington, D.C. – The Washington Center for Equitable Growth announced today that it will award more than $1 million across nearly 30 grants to economists and social scientists i…
Statement on the passing of our founding funder, Herb Sandler
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Herbert Sandler, whose death we deeply mourn, never had a title at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. But this organization, with its mission of advancing evidence-backed ideas and policies that promote strong, stable, and broad-based economic growth, would not exist without the support and…
Preparing for the Next Recession: Policies to Reduce the Impact on the U.S. Economy
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 16, 2019 Media Contacts: Stacy A. Anderson, (202) 238-3114, saanderson@brookings.edu | Erica Handloff, (202) 756-5747, ehandloff@equitablegrowth.org The Hamilton Project at Brookings & Washington Center for Equitable Growth Co-Host Forum & Release New Book on “Preparing fo…