Julian Jacobs - Dollars & Sense

No Matter How You Look at It, the Big Beautiful Bill is a Monstrosity

Here are three views of the bill's horrific distributional consequences.

John Miller Jul 7, 2025

Left Hook

What’s Different About Today’s Government Deficit and Debt?

As of today, the U.S. government’s current deficit and debt are indeed currently at unprecedented levels for peacetime—once we account for them appropriately.

Robert Pollin Jul 1, 2025

Left Hook

No Tax on Tips

Even the stand-alone No Tax on Tips Act would do far too little to better the lot of low-income workers, even tipped workers.

John Miller Jun 27, 2025

JULIAN JACOBS is a Fulbright Scholar, researcher, public speaker, and journalist. His work focuses on inequality in the United States, with an emphasis on how digital technology exacerbates the gap be

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Issue 350

The Dangers of Private Debt: High levels of household and corporate debt in the U.S. are making inequality worse and could make the recession deeper

The U.S. economy is in a bad way. An unprecedented pandemic-borne recession that saw the highest rate of swift

Julian Jacobs Sep 1, 2020