Explains the landmark Great American Outdoors Act and why the bipartisan politics aligned to make it possible.
Unemployment insurance has played a critical role in the US economic response to the coronavirus pandemic. It has been greatly expanded,…
The COVID-19 pandemic has made plain just how important the work of retail, grocery and food service workers is. Their jobs put them at…
For three decades, advocates for climate change policy have simultaneously emphasized the urgency of taking ambitious actions to mitigate…
Discusses fiscal challenges facing local governments due to Covid19.
On 8 June, the business cycle dating committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research declared that economic activity in the US had…
Nearly a thousand officer-involved killings occur each year in the United States. This paper documents the large, racially-disparate…
This book provides the first comprehensive economic valuation of U.S. National Parks (including monuments, seashores, lakeshores,…
Credit reports are used in nearly all consumer lending decisions and, increasingly, in hiring decisions in the labor market, but the impact…
Service sector jobs in the United States are characterized by low pay, few fringe benefits, and limited employee control over scheduled…