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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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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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Whether data from the Fed or from WID.world are used, U.S. debt-to-wealth measures show similar trends (opens in a new tab)
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The United States sits in the middle of the pack on debt relative to wealth (opens in a new tab)
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Explosion in post-1980 inequality largely explains low debt-to-top U.S. wealth ratios (opens in a new tab)
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Measured against the wealth of the very top, U.S. debt is historically modest (opens in a new tab)
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Private wealth has grown far faster than the overall U.S. economy in recent decades (opens in a new tab)
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U.S. debt looks alarming against GDP but far less so against wealth (opens in a new tab)
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Daniel Reck (opens in a new tab)
Assistant Professor of Economics
University of Maryland
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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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Samir Sonti (opens in a new tab)
Assistant Professor of Urban Studies
CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies
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Susan Yackee (opens in a new tab)
Director and Professor at the La Follette School of Public Affairs
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Scott Nelson (opens in a new tab)
Assistant Professor of Finance
University of Chicago
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Emi Nakamura (opens in a new tab)
Chancellor’s Professor of Economics
University of California, Berkeley
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Jon Steinsson (opens in a new tab)
Chancellor's Professor of Economics
University of California, Berkeley
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Will Dobbie (opens in a new tab)
Professor of Public Policy
Harvard University
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Janet L. Yellen (opens in a new tab)
Secretary of the Treasury
U.S. Department of the Treasury
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Ravi Jagadeesan (opens in a new tab)
Assistant Professor
Stanford University
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Piotr Dworczak (opens in a new tab)
Assistant Professor of Economics
Northwestern University
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Mohammad Akbarpour (opens in a new tab)
Associate Professor of Economics
Stanford University
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Jacob Orchard (opens in a new tab)
Ph.D. Candidate in Economics
University of California, San Diego
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Christian Wolf (opens in a new tab)
Ph.D. Candidate in Economics
Princeton University
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John Sabelhaus (opens in a new tab)
Nonresident Senior Fellow
Brookings Institution
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Umberto Muratori (opens in a new tab)
Max Weber Post-doctoral Fellow
European University Institute
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David Kamin (opens in a new tab) Deputy Director
National Economic Council
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David Johnson (opens in a new tab)
Senior Program Officer
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
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Gauti Eggertsson (opens in a new tab) Professor of Economics
Brown University
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Gabriel Zucman (opens in a new tab)
Associate Professor of Economics and Director of the Stone Center on Wealth and Income Inequality
University of California, Berkeley
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Ethan Kaplan (opens in a new tab) Associate Professor of Economics
University of Maryland
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Gabriel Chodorow-Reich (opens in a new tab)
Professor of Economics
Harvard University
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