Literature review by Ellora Derenoncourt, Claire Montialoux, and Joseph Broadus.
Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman in the Financial Times
How will raising interest rates affect inequality and economic mobility for low-income families? In a new Financial Times analysis, Gillian Tett highlights recent work from Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman in analyzing how Fed policy may undo some of the gains from the COVID-19 economic recovery. Read the article here.
Why the Inflation Reduction Act is key to strong, broad-based U.S. economic growth
The newly-passed Inflation Reduction Act has the power to combat growing income and wealth and inequality in the United States, explains a new Equitable Growth article. Author David Mitchell underscores how key climate provisions of the act will be paid for by increased taxes on the wealthy, mentioning tax-evasion research from Gabriel Zucman. Read the article here.
Emmanuel Saez & Gabriel Zucman on Realtime Inequality
A New York Times opinion piece by Peter Coy spotlights realtimeinequality.org, an online tool created by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, which shows which income groups benefit from wealth growth in the United States. Based on Saez + Zucman’s work, Coy emphasizes that economic performance evaluations should go further than simple GDP growth. Read the piece here, and check out more press coverage of Realtime Inequality by NPR, VoxEU, and Bloomberg.
COVID-19: Economic Impacts, Human Responses
Panel discussion with with Jesse Rothstein, Hilary Hoynes, Gabriel Zucman, Ellora Derenoncourt, and Henry Brady.
Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman: Congress and the Coronavirus Pandemic
Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman urge Congress to legislate more forceful measures during the COVID pandemic to avoid another Great Depression. These include increased job protections, robust business support, universal healthcare, and excess profit taxes.
Read the full article on: New York Times.
Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman: Proposal for a Massive Government Intervention
Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman have been strongly advocating for a more robust federal response to the economic dislocations of COVID. In this piece at the Guardian, they press for the federal government to guarantee wages and lost revenues to business facing shutdown.
Read the full article on: The Guardian and