Automatic stabilizers are a key factor in easing the consequences of negative economic shocks. What are automatic stabilizers and how do they work? In an earlier post on this topic, Social Insurance ...

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As we approach sequestration today the dominant narrative continues to be that the huge run-up in the deficit since the Great Recession has been our greatest political-perhaps even a moral-failure.

A growing number of House Democrats are pushing an idea to provide more certainty to American families and businesses that need help from the federal government to financially weather the coronavirus ...

Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday endorsed an idea that many Democratic lawmakers have been pushing: to use so-called automatic stabilizers to keep critical coronavirus relief programs running without ...

The $1.9 trillion recovery package set to go to a vote in the coming weeks won’t include automatic stabilizers. A perennially popular policy among left-of-center wonks and the public, automatic ...

Lawmakers are pushing the White House to tie future relief to economic conditions and if Congress gets the support it needs, people could see stimulus checks hit their bank accounts automatically. The ...

A rich man once told me something that surprised me. He was once not rich. Understand that his formerly deprived circumstances weren’t the surprise. The U.S. is happily dense with people who came up ...

In an effort to safeguard against any future recessions, senators and the White House are considering setting up automatic relief for the next time the economy takes another significant dip. On ...

Lawmakers are still pushing for more stimulus checks until the coronavirus pandemic ends. The fourth round of stimulus checks hasn’t had much movement. Though, recently 26 Democrats reportedly have ...