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Pay for Play? Tax Credits for Paid Time Off

Baker, Dean - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2009

Economists are increasingly coming to the recognition that the current downturn is likely to be longer and more severe than they had expected at the time the last stimulus package was approved in February. As a result, there is likely to be interest in additional stimulus in order to boost the...

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Job Sharing: Tax Credits to Prevent Layoffs and Stimulate Employment

Baker, Dean - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2009

The unemployment rate is expected to average 10.2 percent for 2010, 9.1 percent for 2011, and 7.3 percent for 2012. With this in mind, this Issue Brief describes a job sharing tax credit, designed to provide a quick and substantial boost to the economy. It would use tax dollars to pay firms to...

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The Problem with Structural Unemployment in the U.S.

Baker, Dean - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2012

remedy for structural unemployment - will have little effect on overall employment. …

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It's So Hard to Get Good Help

Baker, Dean - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2012

There is a growing chorus of policy analysts and pundits telling the country that we could have millions more jobs in manufacturing, if only we had qualified workers. This claim has the interesting feature that it places responsibility for the lack of jobs on workers, not on the people who get...

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The Wage and Employment Impact of Minimum-Wage Laws in Three Cities

Schmitt, John; Rosnick, David - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2011

This report analyzes the wage and employment effects of the first three city-specific minimum wages in the United … States –San Francisco (2004), Santa Fe (2004), and Washington, DC (1993). We use data from a virtual census of employment in … on wages and employment in fast food restaurants, food services, retail trade, and other low-wage and small …

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The Big Tax Increase Nobody Noticed

Baker, Dean - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2014

In January of 2013 nearly every worker in the country saw their payroll tax increase by 2.0 percentage points. The payroll tax holiday that had been put in place at the start of 2011 ended in December of 2012, leading to a jump in the Social Security tax from 10.4 percent to 12.4 percent of...

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Who Would Pay More if the Social Security Payroll Tax Cap Were Raised or Scrapped?

Schmitt, John; Woo, Nicole; Bucknor, Cherrie - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2015

On January 1st, the maximum amount of annual earnings subject to the Social Security tax – a.k.a. the payroll tax cap – increased to $118,500. Every year, this cap is adjusted to keep up with inflation. However, many American workers are not aware that any wages above the cap are not taxed...

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The Social Security Benefits of Sitting Senators in 2015

Baker, Dean; Barber, Alan - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2015

This issue brief presents the scheduled Social Security benefit for each current member of the Senate. The issue brief is intended to inform Senators -- and the general public -- about Social Security and, assuming no changes to current policy, demonstrate that it will pay full benefits through...

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Scrapping the Social Security Payroll Tax Cap: Who Would Pay More?

Schmitt, John; Woo, Nicole; Jones, Janelle - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2014

There is currently $2.7 trillion in the Social Security Trust Fund, held in Treasury bonds. Since the program is currently taking in more revenues (taxes on payroll and benefits as well as interest on the bonds) than it is paying out, the Trust Fund will continue to grow to about $2.9 trillion....

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The Relationship Between Financial Transactions Costs and Economic Growth

Baker, Dean; Jorgensen, Helene - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2012

The opponents of financial transactions taxes (FTTs) have argued that the imposition of such taxes will slow economic growth by raising the cost of capital. The argument is that if the cost of buying and selling stock and other financial assets is higher, then it makes it more expensive for...

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