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Defining extreme wealth is more complicated than it looks (opens in a new tab)
Videos Aug 13, 2026
Facing high levels of income and wealth inequality and shrinking tax revenues, U.S. policymakers are showing increased interest in proposals to tax the richest households. Yet determining which households fall into that category is complex and changes based…
Equitable Growth event highlights the path forward to rebuild the U.S. administrative state (opens in a new tab)
Videos Dec 17, 2025
Microsoft Copilot helped draft this column. The Washington Center for Equitable Growth recently convened scholars, practitioners, and advocates for an Equitable Growth Presents event, titled “Reimagining the Federal Government: Building…
Equitable Growth event brings together scholars and the policy community to discuss the rise of right-wing populism and the future of economic policy (opens in a new tab)
Videos May 29, 2025
This article was drafted with assistance from Perplexity AI. The Washington Center for Equitable Growth in mid-May hosted an event on “The rise of populism and the future of economic…
Designing economic policy that strengthens U.S. democracy and incorporates people’s lived experiences (opens in a new tab)
Videos Apr 30, 2025
Around the globe, people are increasingly dissatisfied with the state of democratic capitalism. In the United States and other rich democracies, economic policy has too often in recent decades produced…
Pro-growth tax reform in 2025 would boost the U.S. economy for years to come (opens in a new tab)
Videos Jan 15, 2025
In the aftermath of the presidential election in 2024, it’s clear that many Americans feel like the U.S. economy is not working for them. Even though policymakers on both sides…
In Conversation with Natalie Foster (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation Jul 2, 2024
Equitable Growth in Conversation is a recurring series where we talk with economists and other academics to help us better understand whether and how economic inequality affects economic growth and…
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