Automatic stabilizers are a key factor in easing the consequences of negative economic shocks. What are automatic stabilizers and how do they work? In an earlier post on this topic, Social Insurance ...

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As we approach sequestration today the dominant narrative continues to be that the huge run-up in the deficit since the Great Recession has been our greatest political-perhaps even a moral-failure.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday endorsed an idea that many Democratic lawmakers have been pushing: to use so-called automatic stabilizers to keep critical coronavirus relief programs running without ...

Last month the Wall Street Journal editorial board (“The Great Biden Welfare Blowout”) reviewed the staggering number of welfare recipients in key programs at the close of the Biden administration: ...

A growing number of House Democrats are pushing an idea to provide more certainty to American families and businesses that need help from the federal government to financially weather the coronavirus ...

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The $1.9 trillion recovery package set to go to a vote in the coming weeks won’t include automatic stabilizers. A perennially popular policy among left-of-center wonks and the public, automatic ...

The idea of a fourth stimulus payment is more topical than ever, as the final checks from the third payment – passed as part of the Biden administration’s American Rescue Plan Act in March 2020 – are ...

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