Chairman Barr, ranking member Moore and members of the committee, thank you for holding this hearing on the transparency, bond purchases, and lending policy of ... Read more
Ending DACA won’t strengthen the economy. To the contrary, it will deprive the economy of valued workers; it will lose tax revenue, worsening government finances; and it will waste taxpayer dollars on costly and counterproductive immigration enforcement. Read more
Since announcing that it would end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, the Administration has taken contradictory positions: It has claimed without evidence ... Read more
As Labor Day approaches, my CBPP colleagues Jared Bernstein and Ben Spielberg detail in the Washington Post how — notwithstanding his pro-worker rhetoric ... Read more
Chairman Barr and Ranking Member Moore, thank you for the opportunity to testify today. My testimony begins with a discussion of Title X of the ... Read more
The White House has deemed this "workforce development week," but President Trump's budget would drastically cut many job training and education programs and would fail ... Read more
President Trump’s fiscal year 2018 budget is predicated on the assumption that the economy will expand at 2.9 percent per year, on average, over the ... Read more
Productivity growth would have to be more than twice what CBO projects over the next decade — and higher than any previous sustained period of productivity growth on record in the post-World War II period — to generate the amount of economic growth the Administration is touting. Read more
President Trump has begun to define and implement an agenda that would harm the families he says he wants to help, often to drive policies that would benefit very high-income households and corporations. Read more
