India has learned what to do and what not to do when it comes to implementing policy to address human suffering. The COVID-19 pandemic unified the international response in similar ways, and the world has a lot to learn about key initiatives in India that have been implemented since India's...

One of the country's leading scholars on economics and social policy, Isabel Sawhill addresses the enormous divisions in American society--economic, cultural, and political--and what might be done to bridge them. Widening inequality and the loss of jobs to trade and technology has left a...

Das deutsche Steuer- und Rentenrecht ist den Anforderungen dieser Zeit nicht gewachsen. Zwar hat sich die Politik zaghaft an einer Reform des Steuer- und Rentensystems versucht, eine zukunftsträchtige Lösung der Probleme aber wurde nicht gefunden. Zur Beseitigung dieses Defizits haben die...

The United States has experienced a significant decline in labor unions over the past half-century. We examine the aggregate labor market impact of labor unions, the causes of their decline, and their welfare and distributional consequences, accounting for unions' effects on wages and employers'...