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This invaluable book not only lists the individual items that are deductible but also explains where to list them on your income tax form. The fourteenth edition is completely updated to include new changes in tax law.
Connecting Financial Investment in Effective Programming
The first complete resource on US educational programing to examine the research evidence for efficacy of education programs, and quantify the economic value of these programs for the US economy, so that federal, state, and local governments can invest their resources wisely.
Created in 1974, the US Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has become one of the most influential forces in national policymaking. This title discusses the CBO's role in larger budget policy and the more narrow 'scoring' of individual legislation, such as its role in the 2009-2010 Obama health care reform.
As countries recover from the coronavirus pandemic, they are confronted with an even more challenging debt crisis. Xavier Debrun argues in the foreword that in deciding where we go from here that there is no longer a consensus regarding the optimum design and enforcement of fiscal rules. Rather we must address a series of questions and challenges ......
Estimating the Impact of Fiscal Policy on Inequality and Poverty
This unique manual provides policymakers, social planners, and economists with salient aspects of fiscal redistribution theory, a step-by-step guide to applying fiscal incidence analysis including the required software, a variety of country studies to illustrate, and data on fiscal redistribution for a large number of countries around the world.
In this book, nineteen experts examine topics ranging from constitutional reform and debt fatigue to fiscal rules and zero-based budgeting. Together, these contributions inform a multifaceted, nuanced argument for the need to formalize spending restraint and redefine state debt to include unfunded liabilities.
Connecting Financial Investment in Effective Programming
The first complete resource on US educational programing to examine the research evidence for efficacy of education programs, and quantify the economic value of these programs for the US economy, so that federal, state, and local governments can invest their resources wisely.
This book explains how revamped consumer protection regulations, allowing greater individual choice, along with the government partially shifting to more of an advisory role, can save many thousands of lives annually, and make medicines and other products radically cheaper. Major case studies include the FDA and Uber versus taxis.
In Educating Public Interest Professionals and the Student Loan Debt Crisis, Robert Leslie Fisher analyzes the causes and effects of the student loan debt crisis in America and argues for higher wages, student loan debt forgiveness, and an updated financial model to pay for training for public interest professionals.
This book identifies the changes needed to create a sensible, consistent tax system by converting to a consumed-income tax. These changes would result in a tax system that would be both pro-growth and highly progressive.
Even before the advent of COVID19, India's economy was in a depression. The condition of vast masses of people, particularly those in the informal sector, was grave. Then the Indian government, responding to the COVID pandemic, imposed the most stringent lockdown measures in the world. The lockdown had a particularly severe impact
The Mechanics of Extraction in Comparative Perspective
A collection of studies that explore the extractive systems of twelve ancient states and societies from across the ancient world The studies collected in Ancient Taxation explore the extractive systems of twelve ancient states and societies from across the ancient world, ranging from Bronze Age China to Anglo-Saxon Britain. Together, the ......
Even before the advent of COVID19, India's economy was in a depression. The condition of vast masses of people, particularly those in the informal sector, was grave. Then the Indian government, responding to the COVID pandemic, imposed the most stringent lockdown measures in the world.
The Ultimate Guide to Living, Working, and Investing Across the Border
Now in its twelfth edition, this book is the definitive guide to everything financial for those living a cross-border lifestyle in Canada and the US. If you are a Canadian living seasonally or year-round in the US, a US citizen living in Canada, or if you have financial assets in both countries, this book can save you time, money, and headaches. ......
How to Unlock Hidden Assets to Boost Growth and Prosperity
Even poor cities own large swathes of poorly utilized real estate, or they control underperforming utilities and other commercial assets. Most cities could more than double their investments with smarter use of these commercial assets. Managing the city's assets smartly through the authors' proposed Urban Wealth Funds will enable cities to ramp up ......
Our growing national debt has dropped out of the headlines recently but that doesn t mean that the problem has gone away. The national debt recently topped $17.5 trillion, and is projected to reach $27 trillion by 2024. Worse yet, if you include the unfunded liabilities of Social Security and Medicare, the U.S. real indebtedness exceeds $83 ......
Our growing national debt has dropped out of the headlines recently - but that doesn't mean that the problem has gone away. The truth is that there is no way to address America's debt problem without reforming entitlements. This book provides a critical analysis of these entitlement programs and lays out much needed solutions for real reform.
The Political Economy of Transparency, Participation, and Accountability
Decisions about "who gets what, when, and how" are perhaps the most important that any government must make. This book answers questions such as: How and why do improvements in fiscal transparency and participation come about? How are they sustained over time?
The Financial Policies, Practices, and Health of Suburban Municipalities
A comprehensive analysis of the financial condition, management, and policy making of local governments in a metropolitan region that offers local governments currently dealing with the Great Recession a better understanding of what affects them financially and how to operate with less revenue.
It is a long-held perception that America is a nation where the government typically stays out of day-to-day business activities. Yet the U.S. federal government is in many ways the biggest and most influential financial institution in the world, with $10 trillion in federal guarantees and loans going to the private sector.
The New Campaign Finance Sourcebook has been integrated with the award-winning and frequently visited Brookings website to provide a timely, interactive tool for policymakers, journalists, and scholars.
Budgeting has long been considered a rational process using neutral tools of financial management, but this outlook fails to consider the outside influences on leaders' behavior. This title shows that political culture and ideological orientations are at least as important as financial tools in shaping budgets.
How serious is medical care inflation in the United States? For many years, price indexes for medical care have outstripped the overall rate of inflation.
In recent years, concerned governments, businesses, and civic groups have launched ambitious programs of community development designed to halt, and even reverse, decades of urban decline.
Once hailed as a revolutionary change in US federal aid policy that would return power to state and local governments, General Revenue Sharing was politically dead a decade later. This title offers the history of the General Revenue Sharing program - why it passed, why state and local governments used it the way they did, and why it died.
This book studies the effects of incorporating market incentives into the public goods arena. Carol Graham examines the effects of market-based strategies on the performance of public institutions, the political sustainability of market reforms, and equity.
Social Policy Analysis in the White House, Congress, and the Federal Age
Drawing heavily on candid off-the-record interviews with political executives, career civil servants, elected officials and Washington-based journalists, the author documents the steady deformation of social policy analysis under the pressure of ideological politics waged by both the executive and legislative branches.
Adopting the Right Revenues for the District of Columbia
The survival of the America's capital is a matter of national concern. The Control Board and the chief financial officer have outlined the path to balancing the budget by 1999. Once the District government can deliver services efficiently, the issue of how they should be financed will need to be addressed. That is the focus of this book.
Considers how much national governments might benefit from coordination of their macroeconomic stabilization polices, the circumstances in which they might cooperation; and how ambitious that cooperation should be. Ralph A. Bryant argues that the potential benefits of attempted coordination are often greater than the potential risks.
American Health Care Proposals and International Experience
With health care reform at the top of the domestic agenda, this volume assesses the Clinton administration's proposals and several alternative plans by discussing how six other countries have organised health care finance and delivery to achieve universal access to comparable quality care at much lower costs.
Strategies for Public and Private Long-Term Care Insurance
This work examines the wide range of financing approaches to reforming long-term care of the disabled elderly and the impacts they would have over the next 25 years.
Should countries in Latin America and Eastern Europe follow the Chilean approach to economic restructuring, market liberalization, and stabilization? Following years of hyperinflation and domestic turmoil, Chile undertook a series of dramatic economic reforms.
In a searching examination of why the "competition prescription" has not worked well, Donald F. Kettl finds that government has largely been a poor judge of private markets. Kettl provides specific recommendations as to how government can become a "smart buyer," knowing what it wants and judging better what it has bought.
The federal Superfund program for cleaning up America's inactive toxic waste sites is noteworthy not only for its enormous cost - $15.2 billion has been authorized thus far - but also for its unique design.
With governments facing large deficits and slowly growing revenues, and public distrust in the efficiency of government and elected officials at all-time highs, the authors of this volume ask, "What can government do for you?" This book brings together a prominent group of experts to answer this critical question.
Banks, Government and Multilaterals Confront the Crisis
Suitable for the nontechnical reader and intended to intervene in the policy debate, this book offers informative analysis, controversial assessments, and concrete solutions to bring a close the bleakest period for the Third World since the end of World War II.
