The Importance of Structural Factors in Understanding Economic Mobility
By Gonzalo Schwarz — October 4, 2018 Click Here to Open the PDF in a New Tab Economic mobility and inequality remain at the forefront of public policy conversations and have influenced presidential campaign rhetoric and debates both in the United States and...
California’s Two Strikes Against Economic Opportunity
This article was originally published on Medium. California has earned its place as first in the nation in two oddly related categories: poverty and spending on welfare programs. Indeed, often thought of as a state that is uniquely caring, especially for the...
Reviving the American Dream is Going to Require Licensing Reform
By Brian Meehan and Edward Timmons — April 19, 2018 This article was originally published in The Hill. Photo by Sunghwan Yoon, cropped, CC BY-SA 2.0. Income inequality has become a prominent issue and a major political talking point. How...
Too Much License?
By Edward Timmons, Brian Meehan, Andrew Meehan, and John Hazenstab — April 10, 2018 Click Here to Open the PDF in a New Tab Introduction There is growing bipartisan consensus that the US should pursue occupational licensing reform. Both the Obama...
