Issue Areas
The Washington Center for Equitable Growth is engaged in an array of issues to advance evidence-based ideas and policies that promote strong, stable, and broad-based economic growth.
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Equitable Growth awards more than $250,000 for new research on paid leave (opens in a new tab)
Press Releases JUL 22, 2020
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Washington Center for Equitable Growth invests more than $200,000 to explore effects of paid family leave (opens in a new tab)
Press Releases SEP 13, 2019
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Preparing for the Next Recession: Policies to Reduce the Impact on the U.S. Economy (opens in a new tab)
Press Releases MAY 16, 2019
AI, Tech & Energy
Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how artificial intelligence, emerging technologies, and the energy transition affect workers, inequality, and broad-based economic growth.
Macroeconomics & Economic Measurement
Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how macroeconomic policies and better economic measurement can promote stable and broad-based economic growth.
Political Economy & Democracy
Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how economic inequality shapes political power and democratic institutions, and how that in turn affects broad-based economic growth.
Taxation
Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how tax policies can promote stable and broad-based economic growth.
Competition & Economic Dynamism
Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how strong competition among U.S. businesses affects inequality and broad-based economic growth.
Household Economic Security
Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how unequal access to care, 21st century work-life policies, and education undermines stable, broad-based economic growth.
Economic Equity & Opportunity
Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how trends in economic inequality and mobility and changes in the economy have affected the concentration of wealth, income, and earnings, and how these distributional shifts have affected the promise of economic security and opportunity.
Labor, Wages & Worker Power
Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how inequalities in wages, bargaining power, and the evolving labor market affect workers’ economic security and opportunity as well as broad-based economic growth.
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Economic research shows immigration is good for U.S. workers, the economy, and affordability (opens in a new tab)
Essays Aug 31, 2026
When President Donald Trump returned to the White House in 2025, mass deportations and immigration restrictions were renewed as one of the political priorities of his second administration. Since then,…
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U.S. regions with more unauthorized immigrant workers experienced declines in new housing construction (opens in a new tab)
Visualizations Aug 31, 2026
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A large-scale deportation would shrink the U.S. economy, with particular harm to some states (opens in a new tab)
Visualizations Aug 31, 2026
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Streamlining applications to social programs unlocks more support for the U.S. families who need it most (opens in a new tab)
Essays Jul 7, 2026
Millions of low-income families in the United States tap into multiple social programs to help them meet their needs. A single household, for example, might rely on the Supplemental Nutrition…
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Multiple Program Participation in the Safety Net: Incidence, Impediments, and Implications (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers Jul 7, 2026
Multiple program participation is a defining feature of the U.S. safety net, with half of recipients enrolling in two or more programs. Yet most research examines programs in isolation, missing…
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The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, one year later: Parsing the evidence on the law’s consequences so far (opens in a new tab)
Blog Jun 30, 2026
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act signed into law one year ago on July 4, 2025, shifted trillions of dollars in income from working-class families to corporations and very wealthy…
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Alix Gould-Werth (opens in a new tab)
Former Director of Family Economic Security Policy
Washington Center for Equitable Growth
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Kyle Moore (opens in a new tab)
Economist
Economic Policy Institute
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Javier Cravino (opens in a new tab)
Associate Professor
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Andrei Levchenko (opens in a new tab)
Professor of Economics
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Manisha Padi (opens in a new tab)
Assistant Professor
University of California, Berkeley
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Sylvia Allegretto (opens in a new tab)
Economist & chair: Center on Wage & Employment Dynamics
University of California, Berkeley
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Tal Gross (opens in a new tab) Associate Professor
Boston University
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Sarah Jane Glynn (opens in a new tab)
Senior Advisor
Women’s Bureau
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Sean Reardon (opens in a new tab)
Professor
Stanford University
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Shayak Sarkar (opens in a new tab)
Acting Professor of Law
University of California, Davis
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Stephanie Chapman Weishaar (opens in a new tab)
Senior Manager
Cornerstone Research
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Till von Wachter (opens in a new tab)
Professor of Economics
University of California, Los Angeles
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Martha Bailey (opens in a new tab)
Professor of Economics
University of California, Los Angeles
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Trevon Logan (opens in a new tab)
ENGIE-Axium Endowed Professor of Economics
Ohio State University
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Vanessa Williamson (opens in a new tab)
Senior Fellow
Brookings Institution
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Bentley Macleod (opens in a new tab)
Sami Mnayameh Professor of Economics
Columbia University
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Will Dobbie (opens in a new tab)
Professor of Public Policy
Harvard University
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Tanya Byker (opens in a new tab)
Associate Professor
Middlebury College
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Naomi Zewde (opens in a new tab)
Assistant Professor
University of California, Los Angels
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Leah Stokes (opens in a new tab)
Assistant Professor
University of California, Santa Barbara
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Taryn Morrissey (opens in a new tab)
Professor
American University
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Dania Francis (opens in a new tab)
Assistant Professor of Economics
University of Massachusetts, Boston
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Aaron S. Kesselheim (opens in a new tab)
Professor of Medicine
Harvard University
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Matto Mildenberger (opens in a new tab)
Assistant Professor of Political Science
University of California, Santa Barbara
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Catherine Maclean (opens in a new tab)
Associate Professor of Economics
Temple University
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Priyanka Anand (opens in a new tab)
Associate Professor of Health Policy
George Mason University
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Peter J. Fugiel (opens in a new tab)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Rutgers University
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Isaac Jabola-Carolus (opens in a new tab)
Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology
Graduate Center of the City University of New York
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