COVID-19: Impact and Response

COVID-19: Impacts and Responses provides a roundup of AAF’s insights on the coronavirus pandemic. AAF experts are analyzing both the pandemic’s health and economic impacts and the government’s response. Check back often for insight on the latest developments.

COVID-19 Regulation Tracker

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a dramatic regulatory response by the federal government. This response has taken many forms, including emergency declarations, relief aimed at sustaining payrolls, prohibitions of activity, and temporary waivers of regulatory requirements. The American Action Forum’s COVID-19 Regulation Tracker compiles federal actions related to the coronavirus published in the Federal Register and […]

The AAF Exchange

You wondered. We explained. AAF experts provide clear, data-driven insight into today’s economic and domestic policy issues. 

Center for Health and Economy

The Center for Health and Economy (H&E), a research initiative of the American Action Forum, is focused on providing accessible analysis on the outlook for the United States health care system. With the guidance of nationally recognized economic, budget, and public policy experts, H&E uses microsimulation models and health economics literature to evaluate the effects […]
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COVID-19: Impact and Response

COVID-19: Impacts and Responses provides a roundup of AAF’s insights on the coronavirus pandemic. AAF experts are analyzing both the pandemic’s health and economic impacts and the government’s response. Check back often for insight on the latest developments.

September 22, 2020

The Daily Dish

The Future of the ACA (Again)

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: The Future of the ACA (Again) An opening on the Supreme Court in advance of it hearing arguments in Texas v. U.S. has raised once more…

September 21, 2020

Insight

Highlights from CBO’s Long-Term Budget Outlook 2020

Gordon Gray

According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), debt held by the public will reach 195 percent of gross domestic product in 2050, which is 15 percentage…

September 21, 2020

Insight

Tracker: The Federal Reserve’s Balance Sheet

Thomas Wade

Introduction This tracker follows the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) balance sheet, the best indicator of the Fed’s direct intervention in the economy. Context The…

September 21, 2020

Week in Regulation

A Surprisingly Busy, Up-and-Down Week

Dan Goldbeck, Dan Bosch

In one of the more active spurts in recent memory, there were 25 rulemakings with some measurable economic impact in the Federal Register last week. There…

September 21, 2020

The Daily Dish

The Trump and Obama Labor Markets

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: The Trump and Obama Labor Markets Last week the Census Bureau released “Income and Poverty in the United States: 2019,” the latest…

September 18, 2020

Weekly Checkup

Cutting Through the Vaccine Headlines

Christopher Holt

There’s been a lot of news and competing claims in recent weeks about COVID-19 vaccines. Questions about when they’ll be available, whether they’ll…

September 18, 2020

The Daily Dish

Revisiting the President’s Aid to the Unemployed

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: Revisiting the President’s Aid to the Unemployed Recall that when the federal supplement to unemployment insurance benefits lapsed on…

September 17, 2020

Multimedia

The AAF Exchange — Ep. 48: The Economic Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis (Pt.25)

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

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September 17, 2020

Insight

Comparing Trump and Biden’s K-12 Education Plans

Tom Lee

Executive Summary President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden have markedly different views on the appropriate…

September 17, 2020

Insight

The State of the Lost Wages Assistance Program

Isabel Soto, Isabella Hindley

Executive Summary President Trump’s executive order signed on August 8 created a Lost Wages Assistance (LWA) program that provided states that…

September 17, 2020

The Daily Dish

Regulation and the Robots

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: Regulation and the Robots The robots are coming! The robots are coming! We’ve heard this alarm being raised for years now, but it really…

September 16, 2020

Insight

Tech Policy and the 2020 Election, Part 4: Emerging Technologies and the Regulatory State

Jennifer Huddleston

Executive Summary The approach the next president takes to the administrative state and regulatory policy in general will impact a wide range of emerging…

September 16, 2020

Research

The Total Cost of Trump’s Tariffs

Tom Lee, Jacqueline Varas

The president’s newly enacted tariffs could increase nationwide consumer costs by $57 billion annually and threaten over $460 billion of exports and…

September 16, 2020

The Daily Dish

Executive Disorder

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: Executive Disorder This past Sunday, the president interrupted the return of the National Football League to issue two executive orders…

September 15, 2020

The Daily Dish

Climate Change and Financial Stability

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: Climate Change and Financial Stability This past Wednesday the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) released a report it had commissioned…

September 14, 2020

Multimedia

Addressing Surprise Medical Bills

Christopher Holt

States appear to have coalesced around a few general approaches to surprise medical bills, but is this enough to solve the problem? AAF’s Director of…

September 14, 2020

Multimedia

(CLIP) A COVID-19 Aid Package — Yahoo! Finance

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

AAF President Douglas Holtz-Eakin considers the likelihood that federal policymakers will reach an agreement on another COVID-19 aid package and discusses…

September 14, 2020

Week in Regulation

Immigration Biometrics Proposal Highlight of Short Week

Dan Goldbeck, Dan Bosch

With just four official work days, it is unsurprising that last week was – outside of a single rulemaking – relatively quiet on the regulatory front.…

September 14, 2020

The Daily Dish

Lessons of AB5

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: Lessons of AB5 On January 1, a contentious California law known as AB5 (Assembly Bill 5) took effect. AB5 codified the “ABC” test…

September 11, 2020

Weekly Checkup

Chronic Disease is More than a Health Care Challenge

Christopher Holt

The phrase “chronic disease” gets thrown around a lot in health policy circles, and there is widespread agreement that someone, somewhere, should do…

COVID-19 Regulation Tracker

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a dramatic regulatory response by the federal government. This response has taken many forms, including emergency declarations, relief aimed at sustaining payrolls, prohibitions of activity, and temporary waivers of regulatory requirements. The American Action Forum’s COVID-19 Regulation Tracker compiles federal actions related to the coronavirus published in the Federal Register and […]

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