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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.

Our Policy Areas of Focus

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.

How Ideas Move Into Policy Decisions

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.

AI, Tech & Energy

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.

Macroeconomics & Economic Measurement

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.

Political Economy & Democracy
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Taxation

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

Taxation

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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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.

Household Economic Security

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.

Economic Equity & 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.

Labor, Wages & Worker Power

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

Policy Community
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Disseminate research and policy guidance

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Identify policy areas and issues

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Conduct original research and identify spaces for effective policy interventions

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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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Factsheet: What the research says about the economic impacts of reproductive care (opens in a new tab)

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Before the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on June 24 in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, more than five decades of liberating access to contraception and abortion care had demonstrable…

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