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The Carrot and the Stick of Medicaid Expansion
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2014-05-01)
Moving Up
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2015-09-01)
America prides itself as a place where people who work hard and don't quit can move up. However, there are concerns growing economic inequality has stymied economic mobility. This issue of PERCspectives on Policy identifies ...
Migration Nation
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-01-01)
Every year thousands of Americans move across county lines. In general, non-migrants experience higher average incomes than their migrant counterparts. This issue of PERCspectives on Policy explores how migrants and ...
U.S. Budget Woes, the CBO Projections
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2018-04-30)
The latest projections from the Congressional Budget Office are worrisome and were expected to be so. In fact, federal debt held by the public is projected to be 106% of GDP by 2028 and deficits are expected to persist ...
The Fed’s Slow Realization of the Inflation Problem
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2022-04-12)
For the 30 years prior to the peak of the previous business cycle in February 2020, monthly inflation rates based on the consumer price index averaged 2.4% while the personal consumption expenditures price index averaged ...
Are We Taming Health Care Spending
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2014-01-01)
Goodbye 2018, Hello 2019
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2019-01-22)
The decline of the stock market and its recent volatility have many wondering about the future prospects of the economy. Other leading economic indicators offer a mixed outlook: hours worked in manufacturing remains high ...
It is Time to Fix Social Security
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2022-09-12)
This year, the Social Security program is projected to run a cash flow deficit of $121 billion, one-fifth of the U.S. annual federal deficit, and is expected to be insolvent in 12 years. In this issue of PERCspectives on ...
Whither the Trade War with China?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2018-09-21)
In the ongoing trade dispute between the U.S. and China, the U.S. has demanded reducing or even eliminating tariff and non-tariff barriers and that China halt intellectual property theft and forced technology transfers. ...
Retirement Plan Choice and Public Pension Reform
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2021-09-08)
Despite the private sector’s switch to defined contribution retirement plans, traditional defined benefit pension plans remain dominant in the public sector. In this issue of PERCspectives on Policy, authors Dennis Jansen, ...