As Tara Watson (Williams College) and Kalee Thompson highlight in their forthcoming book Unauthorized: The Human and Economic Costs of Immigration Enforcement in America, "the American narrative celebrates the idea of immigrants arriving to build a better life in a land of abundance. Yet, Americans have always struggled
...State and local finances have been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, with 1.5 million city and state employees losing their jobs since February, and numerous cities slashing spending on police, firemen, parks, sanitation services and other expenditures as revenues
...Beyond the obvious effects on health and the economy, COVID-19 has also had an effect on politics; and, in turn, politics has affected the spread of the disease and its economic consequences. In this episode of EconoFact Chats, Michael Klein and Jeffry Frieden at Harvard discuss the links between politics and economics
...The government’s budget deficit is forecast to be nearly 18% this year, and government debt is expected to grow to more than 100% of GDP, its highest level since the end of World War II. Should the government cut spending to address the ballooning debt? Or, in the face of the highest unemployment rates since the
...Policing in minority communities has been a focus of the protests that followed the tragic death of George Floyd. Jennifer Doleac of Texas A&M University speaks with EconoFact's Executive Editor Michael Klein about the need to test a range of policy initiatives,
...In this second episode of EconoFact Chats, New York Times economics reporter, and EconoFact Board Member Eduardo Porter speaks with EconoFact's Michael Klein about his new book, American Poison: How Racial Hostility Destroyed Our Promise – a timely subject in light of the recent widespread protests about systemic
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U.S. Federal government debt in the hands of the public amounted to 79 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at the end of 2019, but it could exceed 100 percent of GDP by the end of this year and rise even higher in 2021 and beyond. Debt levels this high were last seen at the end of World War II, which
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Thus far the coronavirus pandemic has hit some of the world's richest economies particularly hard. The United States, Italy, Spain, France and the United Kingdom were the five countries experiencing the highest known death tolls from COVID-19 as of mid-April 2020. But this does not mean that emerging
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