Sirisha Naidu - 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

Sirisha Naidu is an associate professor of economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She works on issues related to agrarian change, environmental justice and land dispossession, and women’

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Issue 354

India's Farmers' Protests: What's behind one of the largest protests in history?

Farmers blocking one of the blocking main entry-point highways to Delhi in order to voice their opposition to farm laws

Sirisha Naidu May 1, 2021