Path to prosperity : Hamilton Project ideas on income security, education, and taxes / Jason Furman and Jason E. Bordoff, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Furman, Jason.

Bordoff, Jason.

Hamilton Project.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Taxation--United States.

Taxation.

Education and state--United States.

Education and state.

Skilled labor--Government policy--United States.

Skilled labor.

Economic development--United States.

Economic development.

United States--Economic policy--2001-2009.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (417 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Focuses on three key criteria for fostering broadly shared economic growth: enhancing economic security, building a highly skilled work force, and reforming the tax system. Proposals include reforming unemployment insurance, improving incentives for retirement saving, building quality into each level of education, and simplifying taxation and making it more progressive"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword / Robert E. Rubin

Path to prosperity / Roger C. Altman ... [et al.]

Enhancing economic security

Fundamental restructuring of unemployment insurance: wage-loss insurance and temporary earnings replacement accounts / Jeffrey R. Kling

Reforming unemployment insurance for the twenty-first-century workforce / Lori G. Kletzer and Howard Rosen

Improving opportunities and incentives for saving by middle- and low-income households / William G. Gale, Jonathan Gruber, and Peter R. Orszag

Building a high-skill workforce

Success by ten: intervening early, often, and effectively in the education of young children / Jens Ludwig and Isabel Sawhill

Summer opportunity scholarships: a proposal to narrow the skills gap / Alan B. Krueger and Molly F. McIntosh

Identifying effective teachers using performance on the job / Robert Gordon, Thomas J. Kane, and Douglas O. Staiger

College grants on a postcard: a proposal for simple and predictable federal student aid / Susan M. Dynarski and Judith E. Scott-Clayton

Investing in the best and brightest: increased fellowship support for American scientists and engineers / Richard B. Freeman

Creating a better tax system

The simple return: reducing America's tax burden through return-free filing / Austan Goolsbee

Reforming corporate taxation in a global economy: a proposal to adopt formulary apportionment / Reuven S. Avi-Yonah and Kimberly A. Clausing

Taxing privilege more effectively: replacing the estate tax with an inheritance tax / Lily L. Batchelder.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780815701545

0815701543

OCLC:

430819088