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Vice President Greg Anrig

Greg Anrig, is Vice President for Programs who writes on employment and retiree benefits; Social Security solvency and reform; economic security; and tax reform.

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• Blog Post: The Economic Context for Tax Reform: A Lot Has Changed in a Decade
  Jan 8, 2013
• Blog Post: The Budget Deal’s Labor Market Deterioration
  At best, the budget deal suggests decelerating anemic growth, labor market deterioration.
  Jan 3, 2013
• Blog Post: Boehner’s “Plan B” Would Result in an Austerity-induced Recession
  With headlines like “Boehner Drops Effort to Avoid ‘Fiscal Cliff’” saturating the Internet today, a little clarification is sorely needed: Speaker of the House John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) so-called “Plan B” may have been many things, but it was certainly not a plan to avoid an austerity-induced recession in 2013.
  Dec 21, 2012
• Blog Post: Best Fiscal Policy Development of 2012? The Half-triumph of Keynesianism over Austerity
  Dec 20, 2012
• Blog Post: Introducing the "Dirty Dozen" Tax Breaks
  The Century Foundation's 2002 Working Group on Tax Expenditures proposed a number of serious tax reforms in 2002. A decade later, these "dirty dozen" tax breaks—the 12 most unjustifiable expenditures identified by the TCF report—are still ripe for the chopping block.
  Dec 6, 2012
• Blog Post: Breaking Bad: Will We Finally Deal with Tax Expenditures?
  Breaking Bad: Will We Finally Deal with Tax Expenditures?
  Dec 3, 2012
• Blog Post: Obama’s Opening Bid is Familiar and Sound
  President Obama’s opening bid for negotiations resolving the “fiscal cliff” has surfaced, and the contours are both familiar and sound. It seems that the administration has essentially proposed its budget request for fiscal 2013 and the president’s latest budget offers a solid framework for navigating the fiscal obstacle course, as it would substantially moderate the pace of deficit reduction while making a responsible down payment on longer-term deficit reduction.
  Nov 30, 2012
• Blog Post: True Deficit Hawks First Concern Would Be Jobs and Recovery
  The U.S. has already forfeited literally trillions of dollars in national income by not pushing the economy back to full health after the Great Recession. Yet far too many self-proclaimed deficit hawks seem strangely unconcerned about the $973 billion the economy is running below potential output.
  Nov 29, 2012
• In The News: Don't Call It a Fiscal Cliff
  TCF Budget Analyst Andrew Fieldhouse published in Detroit Free Press.
  Nov 26, 2012
• Blog Post: Since When Do We Congratulate Ourselves Just for Not Going Over a Cliff?
  Nov 19, 2012
• Blog Post: 5 Job Creation Policies for Handling the Fiscal Obstacle Course
  Nov 15, 2012
• In The News: The Better Base Case
  Fellow Edward Kleinbard published in the Huffington Post, discussing the fiscal cliff and medium-term budget goal.
  Nov 15, 2012
• Issue Brief: Navigating the Fiscal Obstacle Course: Supporting job creation with savings from ending the upper-income Bush-era tax cuts
  Navigating the Fiscal Obstacle Course: Supporting job creation with savings from ending the upper-income Bush-era tax cuts
  Nov 14, 2012
• Blog Post: John Boehner and the Fiscal Obstacle Course
  Nov 13, 2012
• Blog Post: Graph of the Day: How to Go Over the Fiscal Cliff, Cont'd
  A CBO report this week confirms the approaching "fiscal cliff" is really a "fiscal obstacle course" (as Century and EPI fellow Andrew Fieldhouse has termed it), composed of several separable provisions with varying budgetary and economic effects. This new analysis supports pursuing a deficit reduction strategy that can maximize savings while maintaining employment.
  Nov 12, 2012
• Commentary: What Does President Obama’s Re-Election Mean for the “Fiscal Cliff”?
  Nov 8, 2012
• Blog Post: Presidential Debate Reveals Candidates' Lack of Vision
  For all that Barack Obama and Mitt Romney talked about the economy during Tuesday's presidential debate, it is remarkable that neither candidate offered anything like a real solution to the high unemployment and depressed wages that continue to plague America's shrinking middle class.
  Oct 18, 2012
• Blog Post: False equivalence in candidates’ budgetary unknowns
  Oct 17, 2012
• Blog Post: Graph of the Day: How to Go Over the Fiscal Cliff
  New research by Andrew Fieldhouse, a fellow at The Century Foundation and the Economic Policy Institute, suggests we can navigate the "fiscal obstacle course" by keeping stimulus programs that benefit the poor and middle class while raising revenue from higher income households, thereby reducing the deficit while avoiding another recession.
  Oct 12, 2012
• Blog Post: Let’s Replace The Payroll Tax Cut With Better Stimulus
  The payroll tax cut is likely to expire—let’s replace it with better stimulus , writes Andrew Fieldhouse.
  Oct 4, 2012