Executive actions to strengthen unions and increase worker power in the United States
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Overview In recent decades, wage stagnation and increasing income inequality have plagued the U.S. labor market. U.S. workers experience persistent racial and gender disparities in economic outcomes. These trends largely continued even during the tight labor market immediately prior to the onset of…
Executive actions to modernize federal data collection and improve measurements of U.S. economic inequality
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Overview Timely and accurate data are critical for diagnosing and responding to a wide variety of policy problems facing the United States, as well as improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the U.S. government. National statistics and the agencies that collect and distribute them—most notably…
Executive actions to reduce inequality and improve job quality for U.S. workers
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Overview Even during periods of sustained economic and employment growth, millions of workers across the United States still face economic uncertainty and precarious working conditions. Working conditions such as low pay, unstable schedules, little access to benefits, workplace surveillance, and dis…
Executive actions to strengthen U.S. income support programs and support research about them
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Overview Income support programs transfer cash or other goods, such as food or housing, to workers and families to relieve pressure on household budgets, effectively freeing up income for other needs. These programs are powerful tools to reduce the severity of recessions, help stabilize the broader…
Executive actions to leverage federal agencies to improve child care in the United States
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Overview The decisions families make about child care are hugely consequential for each individual child and family, as well as for the U.S. economy as a whole. Yet despite its importance, the child care system in the United States is failing to meet the needs of working families. Fewer U.S. childre…
Executive actions to improve U.S. economic measurements
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Overview The rise of economic inequality over the past four decades has changed the U.S. economy in fundamental ways. Unfortunately, the data that our federal statistical agencies produce to measure the nation’s economic progress has not kept up with these structural changes. At the same time, histo…
Executive actions to combat wage theft against U.S. workers
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Overview Wage theft against U.S. workers exacerbates the long-run problem of low and stagnant wages. When companies commit wage theft, they impoverish families and deprive workers of the just compensation for their hard work, robbing workers of the value they contribute to economic growth and exacer…
Executive actions to reform the cost-benefit analysis of U.S. tax regulations
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Overview Beginning in April 2018, the federal government required a cost-benefit analysis for many more tax regulations than it had in the past. More than 2 years later, it is clear this experiment in cost-benefit analysis of tax regulations failed. The cost-benefit analyses released alongside regul…
Executive actions to coordinate antitrust and competition policies across the federal government
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Overview The U.S. economy is plagued by a problem of excessive market power, stemming, in part, from years of weakened competition and antitrust enforcement. Growing market power disrupts the operation of free and fair markets, and harms consumers, businesses, and workers. It exacerbates inequality…
Executive actions to coordinate federal countercyclical regulatory policy
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This factsheet has been adapted from Yair Listokin’s Vision 2020 essay and his 2019 book, Law and Macroeconomics: Legal Remedies to Recessions. Overview Traditional macroeconomic tools—fiscal policy from the U.S. Congress and monetary policy from the Federal Reserve—are critical but not sufficient r…