The Economy - More Policy Analyses and Research
2011
Center for American Progress: Conservative Budget Cuts Bad for State Economies (6/27/11) Center for American Progress: Economic Snapshot for June 2011 (6/27/11) Center for American Progress: Budgeting for Growth and Prosperity (5/25/11)
2010
First Focus: The Effect of the Recession on Child Well-Being (November 2010) NELP: A Long Road Ahead: Why Federal Benefit Extensions are Crucial to the Economy in 2011 (11/5/10) CBPP: An Update on State Budget Cuts: At Least 46 States Have Imposed Cuts that Hurt Vulnerable Residents and the Economy (11/5/10) NWLC: The Unemployment Emergency Continues for Women and their Families - But the Emergency Unemployment Compensation is About to Expire (October 2010) EPI: GDP Picture: A Long, Slow Climb Out of the Recession (10/29/10) EPI: Job Loss by State: An Interactive Map (10/27/10) NELP: Out in the Cold for the Holidays: Federal Jobless Benefits Will Be Cut for More than One Million Workers Starting November 30 if Congress Fails to Renew Emergency Program (10/27/10) Pew Economic Policy Group: A Year of More: The High Cost of Long-Term Unemployment (10/7/10) EPI: How to Lose Over a Million Jobs: Sacrifice Investments to Cut Taxes for the Rich (9/23/10) CAP: Economic Snapshot for August 2010 (8/20/10) CBPP: July 30 Data Release Will Capture Only a Portion of the Jobs Created or Saved by the Recovery Act (7/30/10) CBPP: Going, Going, Almost Gone: Job-Creating TANF Emergency Fund Set to Expire. Fund Will Help Place 240,000 Unemployed Individuals in Jobs by End of September (7/26/10) CHN: The Recession Generation: Preventing Long-term Damage from Child Poverty and Young Adult Joblessness (7/23/10) CBPP: Recession Continues to Batter State Budgets; State Responses Could Slow Recovery (updated 7/15/10) Children's HealthWatch: Healthy Families in Hard Times: Solutions for Multiple Family Hardships (June 2010) CAP: Tax Extenders 101: A Primer on Job Creation and Relief for American Families (5/19/10) EPI: Cheaper Than You Think: Why Smart Efforts to Spur Jobs Cost Less Than Advertised (5/18/10) EPI: The Class of 2010: Economic Prospects for Young Adults in the Recession (5/11/10) CBPP: TANF Emergency Fund Extension Has Wide Support (5/3/10) CBPP: Policy Basics: How Many Weeks of Unemployment Compensation Are Available? (4/21/10) CBPP: Premature End of Federal Assistance to States Threatens Education Reforms and Jobs (4/19/10) CBPP: Introduction to Unemployment Insurance (4/16/10) NWLC: Supporting State Child Care Efforts with American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Funds (April 2010) EPI: For Job Seekers, No Recovery in Sight: Why Prospects for Job Growth and Unemployment Remain Dim (3/31/10) CAP: Resolving Work-Life Conflicts: Progressives Have Answers (March 2010) CAP: Advancing the Economic Security of Unmarried Women: Overview of Laws and Legislation in the 111th Congress (March 2010) IPC: How Expanding E-Verify Would Hurt American Workers and Business (3/2/10) CBPP: With 100,000 Newly Created Subsidized Jobs at Stake, It's Critical to Extend and Expand TANF Emergency Fund as Part of New Jobs Bill (2/26/10) CBPP: With Long-Term Unemployment at Record Levels, Congress Should Extend Recovery Act's Unemployment Insurance Provisions Through 2010 (2/22/10) EPI: Immigration and Wages: Methodological Advancements Confirm Modest Gains for Native Workers (2/4/10) Urban Institute: America Insecure: Changes in the Economic Security of American Families (February 2010) Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity: ARRA and the Economic Crisis: One Year Later. Has Stimulus Helped Communities in Crisis (February 2010) CAP: The States of Minorities in 2010: Minorities are Suffering Disproportionately in the Recession (1/15/10) First Focus Campaign for Children: Families of the Recession: Unemployed Parents and their Children (January 2010) CAP: The Recession Marches On: Continued Job Loss Highlights Need for Job Creation Measures(1/8/10) CAP & IPC: Raising the Floor for American Workers: The Economic Benefits of Comprehensive Immigration Reform (January 2010)
2009
First Focus & Brookings: The Effects of the Recession on Child Poverty: Poverty Statistics for 2008 and Growth in Need During 2009 (December 2009) CHN: If It's Jobless, It's Not a Recovery - Working Paper (12/18/09) CBPP: State-Level Data Show Recovery Act Protecting Millions from Poverty: Act Also Saving and Creating Jobs, Boosting Economy (12/17/09) IPS, CCC, JwJ & Legal Momentum: Battered by the Storm: How the Safety Net is Failing Americans and How to Fix It (12/7/09) CAP Action Fund and NELP: Keeping a First Line of Defense for the Jobless (12/7/09) CBPP: Additional Federal Fiscal Relief Needed to Help States Address Recession's Impact: Without It, States' Steps to Balance Their Budgets Could Cost Economy 900,000 Jobs Next Year (11/19/09) CHN: If It's Jobless, It's Not a Recovery: A Jobs Agenda for Sustained and Shared Recovery - Job Creation Principles (11/12/09) CBPP: Additional Federal Fiscal Relief Needed to Help States Address Recession's Impact: Without It, States' Steps to Balance their Budgets Could Cost Economy 900,000 Jobs Next Year (11/11/09) EPI: Complementing Recovery Policies with a Jobs Creation Tax Credit (10/20/09) EPI: Economic Scarring: The Long-Term Impacts of the Recession (9/30/09) EPI: Tracking the Recovery: Voters' Views on the Recession, Jobs, and the Deficit (9/30/09) CLASP: Tracking American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Spending (September 2009) CBPP: Stimulus Keeping 6 Million Americans Out of Poverty in 2009, Estimates Show (9/9/09) Kaiser Family Foundation: The Effects of the Economic Recession on Communities of Color (July 2009) CBPP: Correcting Five Myths About the Stimulus Bill (7/10/09) CBPP: Policy Points: New Fiscal Year Brings Continued Trouble for States Due to Economic Downturn; Federal Economic Recovery Funds Providing Some Relief (6/29/09) CBPP: Federal Fiscal Relief Is Working As Intended (6/29/09) ARC: Race and Recession: How Inequity Rigged the Economy and How to Change the Rules (May 2009) CEPR: The State and Local Drag on the Stimulus (May 2009) First Focus: Turning Point: The Long Term Effects of Recession-Induced Child Poverty (May 2009) Center for American Progress: No Good News for Workers: Employers Continue to Shed Jobs at a Record Pace (4/3/09) Center for American Progress: Interactive Map: Unemployment Rising in Every State (3/11/09) CLASP & NWLC: Making Use of Economic Recovery Funds: Child Care Policy Options for States (3/9/09) CEPR & Direct Care Alliance, Inc: Using Recovery Act Funds to Improve Direct Care Jobs and the Quality of Direct Care Services (March 2009) Principles for State Implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (March 2009) CBPP: If States Fail to Use Stimulus Funds as Intended, Efforts to Strengthen Economy Could be Undercut (2/24/09) CHN: Chart of Provisions that Promote Shared Recovery in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (2/17/09) CBPP: Economic Recovery Packages: State-by-State Estimates of Key Provisions Affecting Low- and Moderate-Income Individuals (updated 2/13/09) CLASP: Preliminary Summary of Key Provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Aimed at Improving the Lives of Low-Income Americans (2/13/09) CTJ: Impact of Selected Tax Cuts in Final Economic Stimulus Bill (2/13/09) CBPP: Recovery Act Provides Much-Needed, Targeted Medicaid Assistance to States (2/13/09) NEA: Charts showing how much money would be provided for education under the conference report for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: National and State figures (2/12/09) CBPP: Recovery Agreement Temporarily Expands Child Tax Credit for Large Numbers of Children in Every State - Together with Other Credits, Will Keep an Estimated 1 Million Children in Working Families Out of Poverty (2/12/09) CTJ: Poorest 60% of Taxpayers Get No Benefit from Reduction in Alternative Minimum Tax Included in Senate Stimulus Bill (2/11/09) CBPP: Facing Deficits, at Least 40 States are Imposing or Planning Cuts that Hurt Vulnerable Residents (2/10/09) CHN: Congress Should Agree on an Economic Recovery Bill that Creates the Most Jobs and Helps the Most People (2/9/09) Head Start: an Essential Program for Children and Families (February 2009) Families USA: Uninsured and Unemployed (February 2009) Center for American Progress: Cuts to Senate Recovery Bill Mean Fewer Jobs in States (2/9/09) CEPR: Summary of Individual, Corporate and Renewable-Energy Tax Provisions in the Senate and House Versions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (2/3/09) Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center: Tax Stimulus Report Card: Comparing the House and Senate Bills (2/3/09) CBPP: House, Senate Recovery Bills Allot Vast Share of Benefits During Downturn, New Official Estimates Show (2/3/09) CLASP: How Much Restored Child Support Funding Would Each State Receive in the House and Senate Economic Recovery Legislation? (1/27/09) CBPP: Tax Credit Provisions in House and Senate Recovery Packages Would Lessen Growth in Poverty - Plans Would Keep Hundreds of Thousands of Children Out of Poverty (1/26/09) NWLC: How the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Addresses Women's Needs (1/22/09) LSA: A Call to Care - The Impact of the Economic Recession on Lutheran Health and Human Service (1/9/09) CEPR: Spending Versus Tax Cuts: Who Pays the Cost of Political Compromise? (January 2009) NWLC: An Economic Recovery Plan that Works for Women Must Include a Modernized Unemployment Insurance System (updated January 2009) CBPP: Assistance for Hard-Pressed Families is one of the Best Ways to Preserve and Create Jobs: Measures Supported by Some Policymakers Would be Far Less Effective (1/9/09) CBPP: Number of Homeless Families Climbing Due to Recession: Recovery Package Should Include New Housing Vouchers and Other Measures to Prevent Homelessness (1/8/09) MALDEF-NCLR: An Economic Stimulus that Works for Latinos (December 2009) 2008
Half in Ten Campaign: Letter to Transition Team Urging Support for Specific Measures to Re-Build the Economy from the Bottom Up (December 2008) Families USA: A Painful Recession: States Cut Health Care Safety Net Programs (December 2008) First Focus: The Cost of Doing Nothing: the Economic Impact of Recession-Induced Child Poverty (12/17/08) CBPP: State Budget Troubles Worsen (12/10/08) Children's Leadership Council: Economic Recovery Proposal (12/5/08) CEPR: Employment in Free Fall, Economy Loses 5333,000 Jobs (12/5/08) CBPP: Recession Could Cause Large Increases in Poverty and Push Millions into Deep Poverty: Stimulus Package Should Include Policies to Ameliorate Harshest Effects of Downturn (11/24/08) Center for American Progress, Half in Ten Campaign & NELP: Helping the Jobless Helps Us All: The Central role of Unemployment Insurance in America's Economic Recovery (November 2008) NELP: Estimated Number of Workers Exhausting the 13-Week Program of Emergency Unemployment Compensation (11/7/08) NWLC: Child Care as an Economic Stimulus (November 2008) EPI: A Rescue Plan for Main Street (10/27/08) IPS: Talking Points: Economic Meltdown (10/27/08) CBPP: State Revenues Plummet: July-September Revenue Numbers are Worst in Years (10/24/08) EPI: The False Fiscal Dilemma: History Shows that the Economy is Big Enough to Stabilize Financial Markets and Address the Economy's Other Pressing Needs (10/21/08) NELP: Another Unconditional Giveaway of the Federal Unemployment Trust Funds: A Bad Deal for Jobless Workers and for the Unemployment Insurance Program (September 2008) Center for American Progress: Understanding Bushonomics: How We Got into This Mess in the First Place (August 2008) Families USA: Precarious Position: States Must Balance Declining Revenues with a Growing Need for Medicaid (July 2008) CHN & ECAP: Towards Shared Recovery: Congress Must Do More to Reverse the Recession (updated 9/9/08) CAP: Running on Fumes: Rising Gas Prices Add to the Strain on Families' Already Squeezed Budgets (6/30/08) CEPR: The Housing Crash and the Retirement Prospects of Late Baby Boomers (6/24/08) The Mobility Agenda: Work-Life Policies for the Twenty-First Century Economy (6/11/08) CLASP: Low-Income Workers and Families Hardest Hit by Economic Decline Need Help Now (6/9/08) Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured: Medicaid, SCHIP and Economic Downturn: Policy Challenges and Policy Responses (April 2008) EPI: Making the Case - Again - for an Economic Rebound (5/15/08) NELP: Estimated Number of Workers Eligible for Extended Unemployment Benefits Under Supplemental Spending Package (5/14/08) CAP: The State of Minorities: How are Hispanics and African Americans Faring in the Economy (4/29/08) Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured: Medicaid in a Declining Economy: Limited Approaches for States to Control Spending (4/28/08) CHN & ECAP: Towards Shared Recovery: Congress Must Do More to Reverse the Recession (4/11/08) CLASP: Child Support: Reversing Cuts Now Will Provide a Needed Boost to the Economy (1/29/08) CEPR: What We're In For: Projected Economic Impact of the Next Recession (January 2008) NWLC: Women Hit by the Economic Downturn Need Quick and Targeted Assistance: Expanded Unemployment Insurance, Increased Food Stamps, & Fiscal Relief to Protect Medicaid, Child Support Enforcement and Other Vital Services (1/28/08) CHN: Leaving Out Millions Whose Spending Would Spur the Economy (revised 1/28/08) CBPP: Dispelling Confusion on Food Stamps, Tax Rebates, and the Stimulus Package: Speaker's Statement on Food Stamps at National Press Club was Mistaken (1/26/08) Brookings: If, When, How: A Primer on Fiscal Stimulus (January 2008) CAP Action Fund: A Practical and Progressive Economic Stimulus and Recovery Plan (1/17/08) CBPP: Economic Policy in a Weakening Economy (revised 1/17/08) CEPR: The Need for an Economic Stimulus Package (January 2008) CBPP: The Four Pieces of Effective Stimulus: Unemployment Insurance, State Relief, Food Stamps, and Tax Refunds (1/14/08) => Back to the Economy Main Page
