Path to prosperity
Subtitle: Hamilton project ideas on income security, education, and taxes
By: Jason Furman, Jason E. Bordoff, editors.
Contributors: Furman, Jason.; Bordoff, Jason.
Series: Hamilton project book series
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9780815730125; 9780815730132
Subjects: Taxation -- United States; Education and state -- United States; Skilled labor -- Government policy -- United States; Economic development -- United States; United States -- Economic policy -- 2001-
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Robert Rubin; title: Path to prosperity / Roger C. Altman, Jason E. Bordoff, Jason Furman, and Robert E. Rubin; title: Enhancing economic security; title: Fundamental restructuring of unemployment insurance: wage-loss insurance and temporary earnings replacement accounts / Jeffrey R. Kling; title: Reforming unemployment insurance for the twenty-first century workforce / Lori G. Kletzer and Howard Rosen; title: Improving opportunities and incentives for saving by middle- and low-income households / William G. Gale, Jonathan Gruber, and Peter R. Orszag; title: Building a high-skill workforce; title: Success by ten: intervening early, often, and effectively in the education of young children / Jens Ludwig and Isabel Sawhill; title: Summer opportunity scholarships: a proposal to narrow the skills gap / Alan B. Krueger and Molly F. McIntosh; title: Identifying effective teachers using performance on the job / Robert Gordon, Thomas J. Kane, and Douglas O. Staiger; title: College grants on a postcard: a proposal for simple and predictable federal student aid / Susan M. Dynarski and Judith E. Scott-Clayton; title: Investing in the best and brightest: increased fellowship support for american scientists and engineers / Richard B. Freeman; title: Creating a better tax system; title: The simple return: reducing america's tax burden through return-free filing / Austan Goolsbee; title: Reforming corporate taxation in a global economy: a proposal to adopt formulary apportionment / Reuven S. Avi-Yonah and Kimberly A. Clausing; title: Taxing privilege more effectively: replacing the estate tax with an inheritance tax / Lily L. Batchelder; title: Contributors; title: Index.