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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)
The United States can simultaneously foster an equitable AI boom and a clean energy economy (opens in a new tab)
Videos JUN 12, 2026
The Washington Center for Equitable Growth recently hosted a timely discussion exploring how the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence is colliding with—and reshaping—the clean energy transition. Bringing together researchers and…
By: Equitable Growth (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation with Costa Samaras (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation JUN 2, 2026
Equitable Growth in Conversation is a recurring series where we talk with economists and other academics to help us better understand whether and how economic inequality affects economic growth and…
By: Shayna Strom (opens in a new tab)
Equitable Growth event covers tariffs, tariff uncertainties, and the limits of U.S. trade policy (opens in a new tab)
Videos APR 1, 2026
The Washington Center for Equitable Growth recently hosted a webinar examining the economic, fiscal, and labor‑market effects of evolving U.S. tariff laws and regulations, particularly in the wake of the…
By: Christopher Bangert-Drowns (opens in a new tab)
Designing economic policy that strengthens U.S. democracy and incorporates people’s lived experiences (opens in a new tab)
Videos APR 30, 2025
Around the globe, people are increasingly dissatisfied with the state of democratic capitalism. In the United States and other rich democracies, economic policy has too often in recent decades produced…
By: Alexander Hertel-Fernandez (opens in a new tab), Shayna Strom (opens in a new tab)
Pro-growth tax reform in 2025 would boost the U.S. economy for years to come (opens in a new tab)
Videos JAN 15, 2025
In the aftermath of the presidential election in 2024, it’s clear that many Americans feel like the U.S. economy is not working for them. Even though policymakers on both sides…
By: Shayna Strom (opens in a new tab)
Equitable Growth hosts event featuring Sen. Elizabeth Warren on pro-growth tax reform in 2025 (opens in a new tab)
Videos JUN 20, 2024
Several provisions of former President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts are set to expire next year, providing an opportunity to reimagine how federal taxes can both raise additional revenue for…
By: Equitable Growth (opens in a new tab)
Request for proposals: Research grants for early career scholars (opens in a new tab)
RFPs NOV 30, 2023
By: Equitable Growth (opens in a new tab)
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…
By: Raksha Kopparam (opens in a new tab)
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…
By: Equitable Growth (opens in a new tab)
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…
By: Jonathan Fisher (opens in a new tab)
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…
By: Jonathan Fisher (opens in a new tab)
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