Path to Prosperity: Hamilton Project Ideas on Income Security, Education, and Taxes

ISBN 10: 0815730136 / ISBN 13: 9780815730132

Published by Brookings Institution Press, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Path to Prosperity: Hamilton Project Ideas on Income Security, Education, and Taxes
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0815730136
• ISBN 13: 9780815730132
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

Since its launch in 2006, the Hamilton Project at Brookings has produced extensive research on how to create a growing economy that benefits all Americans. Its pragmatic work aims to increase opportunities for broad-based wealth, economic security, and enduring growth. Path to Prosperity, the first book to emerge from the Hamilton Project, presents important and original work to that end. P ath to Prosperity 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. Income security proposals offer methods for reforming unemployment insurance, protecting against the risk of reemployment at a lower wage after job loss, and improving incentives for retirement saving. Education proposals build human capital by improving each level of education, from preschool programs for poor children to graduate fellowships in math and science. The tax proposals seek to make taxation simpler, more progressive, and better suited to a global economy. Contributors include Roger C.Altman, Reuven S.Avi-Yonah, Jason E. Bordoff, Kimberly A. Clausing, Susan M. Dynarski, Molly E. Fifer, Richard B. Freeman, Jason Furman,William G. Gale,Austan Goolsbee, Robert Gordon, Jonathan Gruber,Thomas J. Kane, Lori Kletzer, Jeffrey R. Kling, Alan B. Krueger, Jens Ludwig, Peter R. Orszag, Howard F. Rosen, Robert Rubin, Isabel Sawhill, Judith E. Scott-Clayton, and Douglas O. Staiger.

About the Author

Jason Furman is the director of the Hamilton Project, a Brookings policy initiative aimed at promoting economic growth and opportunity. A formerWhite House adviser, he has conducted research and policy work on issues that include taxes, health care and Social Security. Jason E. Bordoff is policy director of the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution.