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The Forbes 400 Pay Lower Tax Rates Than Many Ordinary Americans (Seth Hanlon and Nick Buffie, Center for American Progress)

A study by White House economists released on September 23 found that the 400 wealthiest U.S. families paid an average income tax rate of just 8.2...

The SEC’s Regulatory Role in the Digital Asset Markets (Todd Phillips, Center for American Progress)

The market capitalization of digital assets—for example, cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens—was valued at $1.95 trillion in mid-August 2021; just a month later, it was...

The Freedom to Vote Act Would Counteract State Laws That Undermine Elections (Danielle Root, Michael Sozan, Alex Tausanovitch, Center for American Progress)

The U.S. Senate recently took another step toward passing transformative voting rights and election reform legislation, with Senate Democrats introducing the Freedom to Vote Act on...

The Climate Needs a Balanced Judiciary (Maggie Jo Buchanan, Center for American Progress)

As the world continues to grapple with the climate crisis, the U.S. federal courts are set to play a key role in efforts to...

Social and Economic Policies Can Help Reverse Americans’ Declining Health (Steven Woolf, Center for American Progress)

For decades, the health of U.S. citizens has been getting progressively worse than the health of citizens in other high-income countries, and the United...

Investing in Home Care and Early Childhood Educators Has Outsize Impacts on Employment (Marina Zhavoronkova and Rose Khattar, Center for American Progress)

Home care workers and early childhood educators are a critical—and sizable—part of the American labor market. Almost 3.2 million Americans—overwhelmingly women, and disproportionately women...

Preparing for Retirement Reforms (Karen E. Smith, C. Eugene Steuerle, Damir Cosic, Urban Institute)

This study uses the Urban Institute’s Dynamic Simulation of Income Model to project the share of Social Security beneficiaries whose retirement incomes fall below...

Mutual Accountability Is the Key to Equity-Oriented Systems Change (Lydia Lo, Laudan Y. Aron, Kathryn L.S. Pettit, Corianne Payton Scally, Urban Institute)

In the face of increased national attention to long-existent and worsening racialized gaps in health, wealth, and well-being, some philanthropic organizations are reexamining what...

The Impact of the Expanded Child Tax Credit in Oklahoma (Elaine Maag, Fay Walker, Urban Institute)

In 2021, the American Rescue Plan Act temporarily expanded the federal child tax credit (CTC) for one year, including some families formerly ineligible for...
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