Using data from the Department of Education’s Federal Student Loan Portfolio and the 2019 Survey of Consumer Finances, we examine the effects of forgiveness on borrowers’ 2022 state tax liabilities.

For those residing in a handful of states, their state income tax bills might be several hundred dollars higher, and their state coffers several hundred million dollars richer.

June’s job growth is certainly good news, but we should be more concerned about the health care sector’s near- and long-term labor supply challenges.

The tax provisions of the budget reconciliation bill assembled by the House Budget Committee add new notches while removing others.

The Biden administration and Democratic lawmakers in Congress are now considering proposals to raise the tax burden on corporations in the United States.

A permanent CTC expansion, a goal expressed by many Democratic lawmakers, would have the unintended consequence of reducing employment.

The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan provides economic relief to households through the tax code. We have created a web application to help users explore how ARP will impact their 2021 federal tax liability.

Our web application allows any user to compare popular current proposals or choose the parameters of their own preferred custom CTC reform.

To supplement our analysis of Biden’s tax proposals, we have created a web application that allows users to explore how Biden’s tax plan would impact their federal tax liability.

A recent Gallup Panel observed a major partisan gap in attitudes and behaviors related to COVID-19. One possible explanation for this variation is the difference in the severity of the pandemic and recession at the local level.