Sep 30, 2020
The IRS knows that taxpayers hide a large chunk of their wealth overseas. According to the best estimates, Americans hold more than a trillion dollars in offshore tax havens.
But it's not easy to find those secret accounts and make tax dodgers pay their fair share.
In the August issue of the American Economic...
Sep 16, 2020
The US spends nearly $50 billion a year on job-creating business incentives. Unfortunately, a lot of this money doesn’t go to the places that need it most.
Upjohn Institute senior economist Tim Bartik says that policymakers must do more to invest in distressed regions. In the Journal of Economic Perspectives, he...
Sep 2, 2020
Black, Latinx, and Native American people are badly underrepresented in economics. In 2017, they were 30 percent of the US population, but earned fewer than 10 percent of economics PhDs.
The question now facing economists is why minorities are opting for other careers.
To find out, Gary Hoover of the University of...