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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AAF Exchange episode 20

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.

July 4, 2020

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(CLIP) June Jobs Report — NPR

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

AAF President Douglas Holtz-Eakin discusses the June jobs report and its implications for the economic recovery on NPR’s All Things Considered.

July 2, 2020

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(CLIP) June Jobs Report & Unemployment — Fox Business

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

AAF President Douglas Holtz-Eakin discusses the June jobs report and the possible extension of the federal unemployment benefit.

July 2, 2020

Multimedia

(CLIP) June Jobs Report — Meet The Press

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

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July 2, 2020

Insight

Highlights of CBO’s Updated Economic Outlook

Gordon Gray

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released an update to its periodic economic outlook, which provides Congress with a 10-year economic forecast and…

July 2, 2020

Multimedia

(CLIP) Stimulus Checks — CNBC

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

AAF President Douglas Holtz-Eakin discusses the implications of the federal government issuing another round of stimulus checks and the next steps to reopen…

July 2, 2020

U6 Fix

Good Progress

Gordon Gray

The June jobs gain of 4.8 million job is an irreducibly good indicator in a nascent recovery. There remains tremendous uncertainty about the path of…

July 2, 2020

The Daily Dish

June Jobs

Gordon Gray

The May jobs report surprised substantially to the upside, beating expectations for millions of additional job losses with a 2.5 million job gain. Payrolls…

July 1, 2020

Insight

ARPA-C, Same as ARPA-E

Ewelina Czapla

Executive Summary Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has proposed a number of policies and initiatives to combat climate change…

July 1, 2020

Multimedia

The AAF Exchange — Ep. 38: The Economic Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis (Pt.15)

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

AAF President Douglas Holtz-Eakin discusses the economic impact of the latest surge of COVID-19, and what government leaders can do to help manage this…

July 1, 2020

Multimedia

The Childcare Shortage & COVID-19

Isabel Soto

AAF’s Labor Market Policy Data Analyst Isabel Soto explains the worsening childcare shortage in the United States and the limitations of current policies…

July 1, 2020

Insight

What is the Future of Antitrust and Calls to Break Up Big Tech?

Jennifer Huddleston

Executive Summary A number of antitrust investigations continue into tech companies, despite a lack of evidence that antitrust violations have taken…

July 1, 2020

The Daily Dish

Disappointment Thy Name is GSE

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: Disappointment Thy Name is GSE According to my Wikipedia, “Disappointment is the feeling of dissatisfaction that follows  the failure…

June 30, 2020

Insight

Has the Trump Administration Reached ‘Peak Deregulation’?

Dan Bosch

Executive Summary The Trump Administration released its Spring 2020 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions, which shows the number…

June 30, 2020

Research

Incarceration and Poverty in the United States

Tara O'Neill Hayes, Margaret Barnhorst

Without reducing poverty—and more specifically, income inequality—as well as racial bias and rolling back harsh sentences for certain crimes, the United…

June 30, 2020

The Daily Dish

Whither the Housing Market?

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: Whither the Housing Market? The National Association of Realtors reported yesterday that pending home sales (transactions for previously…

June 29, 2020

Insight

Supreme Court Rules CFPB Structure Unconstitutional

Thomas Wade

Executive Summary The 2010 Dodd-Frank Act created the new supervisory agency, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), to regulate the consumer…

June 29, 2020

Multimedia

(CLIP) COVID-19’s Impact on Childcare — C-SPAN

Isabel Soto

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June 29, 2020

Insight

Timeline: The Federal Reserve Responds to the Threat of Coronavirus

Thomas Wade

Executive Summary On Sunday, March 15, the Federal Reserve embarked on a large-scale program employing emergency powers in order to stabilize a tumultuous…

June 29, 2020

Research

Tracker: Paycheck Protection Program Loans

Thomas Wade

Introduction The following tracker uses the most recent data from the Small Business Administration (SBA) to chart the allocation of Paycheck Protection…

June 29, 2020

Week in Regulation

Asylum Measures Drive Net-Cost Week

Dan Goldbeck, Dan Bosch

Last week, the Supreme Court handed down a favorable ruling to the Trump Administration regarding asylum procedure. Meanwhile, in the pages of the Federal…

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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