Tag: USA

5 Things U.S. Policymakers Must Understand About China-Africa Relations (Jordan Link, Center for American Progress)

The eighth convening of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), likely to be held late this year, marks more than 20 years of high-level...
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Creating a Domestic U.S. Supply Chain for Clean Energy Technology (Mike Williams and Trevor Sutton, Center for American Progress)

The global clean energy industry is at an inflection point. The trajectory of generating and deploying clean energy has risen globally, in spite of the...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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Nonprofit Trends and Impacts 2021 (Lewis Faulk, Mirae Kim, Teresa Derrick-Mills, Elizabeth T. Boris, Laura Tomasko, Nora Hakizimana, Tianyu Chen, Minjung Kim, Layla Nath,...

Nonprofit organizations in the United States play a vital role delivering services, strengthening communities, and facilitating civic engagement. In our nationally representative survey of...
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September job growth was worse than expected but better than it looked (Jason Furman, Wilson Powell III, Peterson Institute for International Economics)

The US labor markets continued to improve in September, but the improvement was much slower than the fast pace of recovery earlier in the...
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Why Biden will try to enforce Trump’s phase one trade deal with China (Chad P. Bown, Peterson Institute for International Economics)

After eight months of reviewing the legacy of former President Donald Trump's trade war with China, the Biden administration has decided to hold China's...
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Senate hearing opens the door to individual lawsuits in privacy legislation (Cameron F. Kerry, Brookings)

When the general counsel of any publicly-traded company is willing to consider private rights of action—i.e. individual lawsuits to enforce statutory privacy rights—as part...
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Working toward responsible competition with China (Patricia M. Kim, Brookings)

The announcement that Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping will meet in a virtual summit before the end of the year have raised prospects that Washington...
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