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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…
Request for proposals: Research grants for early career scholars (opens in a new tab)
RFPs Nov 30, 2023
Better data collection can help lift the LGBTQ+ community out of economic hardship in the United States (opens in a new tab)
Videos Sep 15, 2022
Over the past 2-plus years amid the COVID-19 pandemic, widespread evidence has underscored the reality that various communities and demographic groups in the United States experience socioeconomic hardships differently. Numerous…
Equitable Growth welcomes R. Jisung Park as a visiting scholar to examine economic impacts of climate change (opens in a new tab)
Videos Jul 25, 2022
Wildfires are blazing across Europe and temperatures are soaring around the world, exemplifying new extremes that are set to become normal as a result of climate change. But the effects…
The impact of different inflationary pressures due to income inequality and racial disparities in the United States today (opens in a new tab)
Videos May 26, 2022
The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis recently hosted a conference, “Unequal Inflation Impacts,” at which an illuminating set of presentations and additional research sources explored “the ways inflation puts different…
Testimony by Jonathan Fisher before the House Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth (opens in a new tab)
Videos Nov 17, 2021
Statement for the Roundtable Meeting of the Committee on “Measuring Economic Disparity” House Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth November 17, 2021 I am Jonathan Fisher, the…
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