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Factsheet: Defining top U.S. income and wealth thresholds for tax policy (opens in a new tab)
Factsheets May 27, 2026
Federal and state policymakers in the United States, responding to high levels of income and wealth inequality and shrinking tax revenues, are increasingly interested in proposals to tax households with…
Factsheet: Using asset limits in public benefit programs (opens in a new tab)
Factsheets Mar 10, 2026
A household’s assets, or its overall wealth, are the resources required to ensure its family members can weather the financial disruption when unexpected expenses emerge. Yet many U.S. households do…
Factsheet: U.S. economic mobility and policies to increase upward mobility (opens in a new tab)
Factsheets Jun 17, 2025
The United States often has been touted as a land of opportunity, where hard work leads to success and children do better than their parents. But increasingly, these notions of…
Factsheet: Is the U.S. economy in a recession, and how does recession dating work? (opens in a new tab)
Factsheets Aug 10, 2022
As inflationary pressure continues to cause higher prices for U.S. families, policymakers and economists alike continue to debate whether the United States is entering—or already entered, or will soon enter—a…
Factsheet: What the research says about the economic impacts of reproductive care (opens in a new tab)
Factsheets Jun 27, 2022
Before the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on June 24 in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, more than five decades of liberating access to contraception and abortion care had demonstrable…
Factsheet: What the research says about the economics of early care and education (opens in a new tab)
Factsheets Sep 15, 2021
Despite the important role that child care plays in the lives of many U.S. families, the private child care market is not meeting their needs. This is not just an…
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