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.

November 9, 2020

Insight

National Apprenticeship Week

Isabel Soto

Executive Summary  It’s National Apprenticeship Week—a perfect opportunity to analyze the state of apprenticeship programs in the United States. …

November 9, 2020

Week in Regulation

November Starts Off on a Net-Regulatory Foot

Dan Goldbeck, Dan Bosch

The country’s focus was justifiably on the outcome of the election last week, but there was also a fair amount activity in the pages of the Federal Register.…

November 9, 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…

November 9, 2020

The Daily Dish

Lessons from Proposition 22

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: Lessons from Proposition 22 This election season California voters passed Proposition 22 (“Prop 22”) by a margin of 58.6 percent in…

November 6, 2020

Weekly Checkup

HHS Gives Regulatory Review Enforcement Some Teeth

Christopher Holt

One of the more significant undertakings of the Trump Administration has been its deregulatory push. In particular, it has required that each agency offset…

November 6, 2020

U6 Fix

Healthy Footing Heading into the Cold

Gordon Gray

The October jobs print of 638,000 net payroll jobs is a healthy gain underpinned by other signs of strength in the report. The virus and the related…

November 6, 2020

The Daily Dish

October Jobs

Gordon Gray

Last month's overall jobs number disappointed, coming in somewhat below expectations. American employers added 661,000 new workers to payrolls in September…

November 5, 2020

Multimedia

(CLIP) Unemployment and a Targeted Stimulus Package — Yahoo! Finance

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

AAF President Douglas Holtz-Eakin discusses this week’s unemployment claims, the likelihood of a smaller, targeted stimulus package, and how the outcome…

November 5, 2020

Multimedia

(CLIP) Stimulus Bills and a Biden Presidency — Bloomberg

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

AAF President Douglas Holtz-Eakin discusses whether Congress will pass another stimulus bill, how to target any stimulus effectively, and what a Biden…

November 5, 2020

The Daily Dish

The Road to 5G

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: The Road to 5G Implementing the fifth generation wireless broadband (5G) standard is an enormous opportunity for U.S. innovators, firms…

November 4, 2020

Insight

HHS Proposes to Sunset Its Regulations

Dan Bosch

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed a rule that would essentially force the department’s agencies to review…

November 4, 2020

Insight

Keeping a Clear Path to 5G

Jennifer Huddleston

Executive Summary While 5G deployment by private companies is already well underway in the United States, the Department of Defense released a Request…

November 4, 2020

The Daily Dish

On the Policy Horizon

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: On the Policy Horizon Eakinomics is being written before polls have closed, but regardless of who is elected the next president, climate…

November 3, 2020

Research

Assessing the Department of Labor’s Rule Raising Wage Requirements for H-1B Workers 

Isabel Soto, Tom Lee

Executive Summary   On October 8th, the Department of Labor issued an interim final rule increasing the minimum wage requirements for H-1B workers…

November 3, 2020

The Daily Dish

Election Day

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: Election Day It’s election day at last As for me, I’m just flat gassed We pray for a winner Before Thanksgiving dinner And try to…

November 2, 2020

Week in Regulation

Net-Cost Week Led by Another “Off-Budget” Rule

Dan Goldbeck, Dan Bosch

Last week saw a return to a sizable net-cost total, due primarily to a single rule. That single rule – with stated costs in the billions of dollars –…

November 2, 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…

November 2, 2020

The Daily Dish

Conservative Health Care Reform

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: Conservative Health Care Reform Health care has proven to be an important issue in the presidential campaign, and the Supreme Court case…

October 30, 2020

Weekly Checkup

Would a President Biden Fix Medicare’s Cash Shortfall?

Christopher Holt

Earlier this year, the Medicare Trustees reported, for the second year in a row, that Medicare’s Hospital Insurance Trust Fund (Part A) will become insolvent…

October 30, 2020

The Daily Dish

Q3 GDP Report

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Eakinomics: Q3 GDP Report Yesterday the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released the initial estimates of growth in gross domestic product (GDP)…

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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