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

housing

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D&S BLOG

Review of Matthew Desmond's Evicted

By Polly Cleveland Matthew Desmond’s Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City gives us a dramatic closeup of

Polly Cleveland May 2, 2020

D&S BLOG

Support the Homelessness Marathon, Feb 17-18

I heard from my old friend in the Finger Lakes in upstate New York, Jeremy Alderson, about the upcoming 17th

D&S Admin Jan 9, 2015