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From in-depth analysis to practical policy insights, find research that helps explain how economic policy shapes outcomes for workers, families, and long-term growth.

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The Washington Center for Equitable Growth connects economic evidence and policy to promote shared prosperity and growth by funding policy-relevant research, elevating scholars and their work, and translating evidence for policymakers.

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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.

To equip leaders to guide AI toward shared prosperity, our work examines:

The impact of AI on employment levels, wages, and job content
How AI drives macroeconomic impacts such as growth and productivity
Market competition implications of AI use
The use of algorithms in labor management

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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.

To reduce volatility and strengthen individual and macroeconomic resilience for broad-based growth, we focus on:

Automatic stabilizers that cushion downturns and promote more even recoveries
Tools to respond to recessions that quickly stabilize households, boost the economy, and limit scarring
Ways to encourage private investment and job growth
Wealth inequality using novel data and analysis
Policies to strengthen supply chains and support the energy transition

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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.

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Taxation

Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how tax policies can promote stable and broad-based economic growth.

To provide evidence to policymakers on what effective reform entails, we focus on:

Distributional analysis, including distributional weighting of benefit-cost analysis
Pass-through and other business taxation
Tax enforcement, especially related to large, complex partnerships
Taxing wealth, including capital taxes on new forms of wealth such as artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency

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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.

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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.

We focus on:

The efficacy of public benefit and social insurance programs
Income security and access to wealth-building
Policy effects on economic mobility
The value of economic inclusion
The impacts on workforce outcomes through policies such as schedule stability and childcare

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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.

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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.

We focus on:

Unemployment and wage growth
Bargaining power and union coverage
Gender and race pay equity
Nonwage amenities, job quality, and upward job mobility

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How Ideas Move Into Policy Decisions

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Disseminate research and policy guidance

Identify policy areas and issues

Conduct original research and identify spaces for effective policy interventions

Identify policy relevant and academically rigorous research questions

Academics

Progress depends on a continuous exchange between ideas and action.

Research helps define the questions that matter, while policy challenges shape the direction of inquiry. When these two stay connected, evidence becomes more than insight—it becomes a tool for better decisions.

That connection is powered by people.

At the center of this work is a network of more than 400 researchers focusing on real policy questions—helping explain economic trends, evaluate solutions, and inform decision-making.

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Trump’s trade war with Canada grows increasingly costly as Section 338 tariffs harm both economies (opens in a new tab)

Essays SEP 22, 2026

President Donald Trump continues to escalate his administration’s perplexing trade spat with Canada through the expanded use of novel tariff powers in Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930.…

By: Christopher Bangert-Drowns (opens in a new tab)

Macroeconomics & Economic Measurement Taxation

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New research shows how U.S. homeownership and the accumulation of housing wealth are linked to political participation (opens in a new tab)

Essays AUG 14, 2026

Persistent affordability pressures have driven up housing costs for millions of U.S. families in recent years. Home prices remain near record highs relative to incomes, mortgage rates and associated costs…

By: Carlos Fernando Avenancio-Leon (opens in a new tab)

Economic Equity & Opportunity Taxation

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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…

By: Equitable Growth (opens in a new tab)

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The debt-to-wealth ratio: A missing lens on the U.S. government’s fiscal capacity (opens in a new tab)

Reports JUL 30, 2026

Few statistics shape the fiscal debate in the United States as powerfully as the ratio of federal debt-to-Gross Domestic Product. Debt held by the public recently surpassed 100 percent of…

By: Austin Clemens (opens in a new tab), David S. Mitchell (opens in a new tab)

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Household Economic Security

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