ISSUE IN DEPTH:
Stimulating the Economy

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