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Stimulating the Economy
Stimulus Proposals
Fiscal Relief for the States
The Unemployed
Health Insurance
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Multi-Year Business Tax Cuts Still Dwarf Aid to Unemployed Workers in New House Bill
House Opts to Press for More Tax Cuts Rather than Ensure Quick Enactment of Extended Unemployment Benefits
House Avoids Clean Extension of Unemployment Benefits as 80,000 Unemployed Workers Exhaust Their Benefits Each Week
Accelerating Implementation of the 25 Percent Income Tax Rate Would Be Ineffective Stimulus
The Kyl Amendment to Lock in Permanent Repeal of The Estate Tax
Presidents Budget Uses Accounting Devices And Implausible Assumptions to Hide Hundreds of Billions of Dollars in Costs
The Administration's Proposal to Make The Tax Cut Permanent
Future Tax Cuts and the Economy in the Short Run
Amendment Providing Second and Third Years of Bonus Depreciation Would Lessen its Stimulative Effect While Worsening Both the Federal and State Budget Deficits
Criticisms of Kennedy Tax Proposal Ignore its Substance and Distort its Impact
Debate over Causes of Deterioration of Surplus Marred by Failure to Distinguish Between Short-Term and Long-Term Impacts
CBO Evaluates Major Stimulus Proposals in New Report
New House Stimulus Proposal Dominated by Multi-Year or Permanent Tax Cuts
Joint Tax Committee Estimate Shows Tax Cuts in New Stimulus Plan Would Have Large Costs after Recession Ends
The Centrist Coalitions Disappointing Stimulus Proposal
Senate Finance Committee Plan Includes Sound Stimulus Proposals
Senate Republican Leadership Stimulus Plan Retains Ineffective And Costly Proposals
Corporate AMT Repeal Is Ineffective Stimulus
Attractions of Payroll Tax Holiday Diminish Upon Closer Examination
Survey Shows Most States Would Not Use Unemployment Insurance Funds They Would Receive under House Stimulus Bill To Expand or Extend Unemployment Benefits
Tax Cuts Are Not Automatically The Best Stimulus: A Response to Glenn Hubbard
Acceleration of Upper-Bracket Rate Reductions Would Be Costly and Ineffective as a Stimulus Measure
The Administrations Stimulus Proposal: Is it a Sound And Balanced Package?
A Federally Financed Sales Tax Holiday Would Be Difficult to Implement and Would Have Limited Stimulus Effect
Senate Republicans Embrace Administration Proposal That Is More Troubling in Key Respects than the House Stimulus Bill
Ways and Means Package Departs from Bipartisan Principles for Effective Stimulus and Offers Little Help to the Unemployed
Where Has All the Surplus Gone?
How Much Revenue Will the Corporate Tax Reductions in the House Stimulus Bill and Senator Baucus Stimulus Package Cost Each State?
House Stimulus Package Would Worsen State Fiscal Conditions by Causing States to Lose $5 Billion a Year in Revenue for the Next Three Years
Health Care Provisions of House Ways And Means Committee Stimulus Package Offer Little Help For The Health Insurance Needs of Unemployed Workers
Statement of Joseph Stiglitz at Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Press Conference
Temporary Medicaid Improvements As Part of a Stimulus Package
Observations on a Stimulus Package
A Permanent Corporate Tax Rate Cut: The Wrong Medicine For Short-Term Economic Ills
Would a Capital Gains Tax Cut Stimulate The Economy?
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White House Stimulus Proposal Would Substantially Widen State Budget Deficits
New Estimates Show State Fiscal Conditions Continue to Worsen
Senate Finance Committee Economic Stimulus Bill Provides Essential Fiscal Relief to States
Budget Cuts vs. Tax Increases at the State Level: Is One More Counter-Productive than the Other During a Recession?
How Much Revenue Will the Corporate Tax Reductions in the House Stimulus Bill and Senator Baucus Stimulus Package Cost Each State?
House Stimulus Package Would Worsen State Fiscal Conditions by Causing States to Lose $5 Billion a Year in Revenue for the Next Three Years
State Fiscal Problems Could Weaken Federal Stimulus Efforts
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Multi-Year Business Tax Cuts Still Dwarf Aid to Unemployed Workers in New House Bill
New Data Show That a Record Number of Workers - 356,000 Individuals - Exhausted Their Unemployment Benefits in January Without Receiving Additional Weeks of Benefits
Relieving The Recession:Nineteen Ways States Can Assist Low-income Families During the Downturn
House Opts to Press for More Tax Cuts Rather than Ensure Quick Enactment of Extended Unemployment Benefits
House Avoids Clean Extension of Unemployment Benefits as 80,000 Unemployed Workers Exhaust Their Benefits Each Week
Thomas Proposal to Suspend the Taxation of Unemployment Benefits Would Provide No Immediate Stimulus and Favor Higher-Income Unemployed Workers over Lower-Income Workers
Number of Individuals Exhausting Unemployment Insurance Benefits Already Up Sharply
Survey Shows Most States Would Not Use Unemployment Insurance Funds They Would Receive under House Stimulus Bill To Expand or Extend Unemployment Benefits
Unemployment Insurance as Economic Stimulus
Strengthening Unemployment Benefits Would Be Much More Effective in Saving Jobs than Most Corporate Tax Cuts
Ways and Means Package Departs from Bipartisan Principles for Effective Stimulus and Offers Little Help to the Unemployed
How Much Unemployment Assistance Is Provided under the Bill the Ways and Means Committee Has Approved?
Health Care Provisions of House Ways And Means Committee Stimulus Package Offer Little Help For The Health Insurance Needs of Unemployed Workers
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Do Proposals to Increase Funding for National Emergency Grants Provide an Effective Way to Meet the Health Insurance and Other Needs of Laid-off Workers?
Federal Aid to State Medicaid Programs Is Falling While The Economy Weakens
Many States Are Considering Medicaid Cutbacks In The Midst of The Economic Downturn
Unemployed Workers Need Help With Health Insurance
Health Care Provisions of House Ways And Means Committee Stimulus Package Offer Little Help For The Health Insurance Needs of Unemployed Workers
Temporary Medicaid Improvements As Part of a Stimulus Package
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