US Economy

Efosa Ojomo, senior research fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, is a 2019 Aspen Ideas Festival speaker.

This brief summarizes why Rural Development Hubs are important, how they work, and what it takes to do that work. It also discusses policy levers and enabling environments that can strengthen Rural Development Hubs, and that foster community and economic development that advances both equity and prosperity.

This tax day, we have highlighted a number of challenges that U.S. taxpayers face navigating the current tax filing system and shared some ways to help taxpayers file accurately and expediently, regardless of their work arrangement.

Dramatic differences in income, productivity, and housing costs within the United States make geographic mobility important for spreading prosperity. State-level Minimum Zoning Mandates (MZMs) allowing landowners to build at a state-guaranteed minimum density, even in municipalities resistant to development, would be an effective means of encouraging denser housing development.

We propose two alternative policy options for promoting increased earnings and employment of low-income households: expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) among childless workers, and implementing a wage subsidy for low-income workers that would be administered through employers.

The American economy is stronger today than it has been in many years. But our nation’s economic performance has not been even, and prosperity is not as widespread as it once was.

Bipartisan Policies to Increase Work, Wages, and Skills

This proposal recognizes the simultaneous need for more college educated workers and a higher level of labor market skill among non-college educated individuals. We propose to invest in the upskilling of the American workplace by better leveraging the potential of the community college sector.

Career and technical education (CTE) is widely viewed as an important alternative to traditional four-year colleges, a means of increasing the earnings of U.S. workers, and an effective response to the changing skill requirements of U.S. employers.