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Gopi Shah Goda, SIEPR Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, discusses the history of social security and how it has shaped the United States.

“The PPP program has been a windfall for the banks at taxpayers’ expense, even if some are donating the fees to worthy causes,” said SIEPR Senior Fellow Anat Admati.

A 2016 paper by SIEPR economists “suggests that black-owned businesses have more difficulty in accessing formal credit channels…[...]

According to a new analysis by Colleen Honigsberg, more than 4,000 lending institutions are in line to split between $14.3 billion to $24.6 billion in processing fees for PPP loans

A report by David Grusky found that from 2008 and 2016, the mortality rates of people between the ages of 25 and 34 increased 20%, largely because of suicides and drug overdoses.

Amid the public health crisis, the number of working black business owners is down more than 40%, according to recent research by SIEPR.

Co-sponsored by SIEPR and the �������� Economics Association, the COVID-19 Policy Hackathon drew more than 800 participants from 78 countries.

Investors are likely focusing more on bailouts for large corporations than for struggling small businesses and workers, says SIEPR Senior Fellow Anat Admati.

The IRS's dispersal of stimulus checks "is a massive operation, and let's hope they know what they're doing since people need that money," says SIEPR Senior Fellow Anat Admati.

SIEPR Senior Fellow Amit Seru shares insight on some of the ways that private-equity firms purchasing a company can sometimes lead to layoffs.

"Speeding the development of vaccines and effective drug therapies by vastly increasing the rewards for businesses would decisively limit the economic damage," says Hanno Lustig.

"Now that the Cares Act is law, policy makers need to find ways to impose restrictions on how the money is deployed," says SIEPR Senior Fellow Amit Seru.

“This is really going to be a recession unlike anything we have ever seen before,” said Mark Duggan, who is both the director of SIEPR and a SIEPR Senior Fellow.

SIEPR Senior Fellow Ed Lazear discusses the need for liquidity, relief for small businesses, and potential recovery rate.

"There is no reason that the federal government should spend upward of $50 billion to bail out airlines [...]"

"The US must take steps to limit job-destroying regulations and avert growth-sapping tax increases – before it’s too late," says SIEPR Senior Fellow John Taylor.

An open letter drafted by �������� professors says the coronavirus stimulus package should benefit workers — not corporations and their wealthy shareholders.

“Right now, the country’s frozen,” said Anat Admati, a SIEPR Senior Fellow. "Policymakers have to decide what’s really best for society."

"With Americans poised to experience their most abrupt liquidity shock in U.S. history [...] now is the time to deploy the full range of tools for addressing it."

In recessions, enrollment in higher ed goes up because opportunity costs go down [...]