David Wessel, senior fellow and director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution, discusses what a post-pandemic economic recovery could look like in terms of GDP growth and job gains. “This is not going to be another jobless recovery,” he says.

Wessel's Economic Update: The post-pandemic economic recovery

In this Sustainable Development Spotlight,, Global Economy and Development Senior Fellow Homi Kharas presents a new Sustainable Development Spotlight, in which he discusses the twin crises of debt and development distress.

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Sustainable Development Spotlight: Twin crises of debt and development distress

David Wessel, senior fellow and director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution, says that the Federal Reserve has changed a lot since he came to Washington thirty years ago, particularly in its current attempt to raise inflation. Find out why Wessel says this is a big deal, and what it means.

Learn more at: https://www.brookings.edu/center/the-hutchins-center-on-fiscal-and-monetary-policy/

Wessel's Economic Update: Why the Fed allowing inflation to rise is a big deal

John McArthur, senior fellow and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at the Brookings Institution, explains the “17 Rooms” initiative, a collaborative experiment launched by Brookings and The Rockefeller Foundation to stimulate new forms of discussion and action for the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. For more, visit: https://www.brookings.edu/17rooms/

Sustainable Development Spotlight: 17 Rooms for the Sustainable Development Goals

Tony Pipa, senior fellow in the Center for Sustainable Development at the Brookings Institution, focuses on opportunities for development in rural America in the Biden administration's American Rescue Plan. For more, visit www.brookings.edu/sustainabledevelopment

Sustainable Development Spotlight: Investing in rural America

David Wessel, senior fellow and director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution, explains how the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic exposed vulnerabilities in our financial markets--especially in the "shadow banking system," such as bond mutual funds. For more, visit the Report of the Task Force on Financial Stability, https://www.brookings.edu/research/report-of-the-task-force-on-financial-stability/

Wessel's Economic Update: Shadow banking system is a financial market vulnerability

George Ingram, senior fellow in the Center for Sustainable Development at the Brookings Institution, shares his insights on why we need better data quality reporting to track donor funding that advances gender equality. Too often, Ingram says, women and girls are left out of the development process, leading to inequitable societies and less productive economies. Learn more at: https://www.brookings.edu/events/making-progress-on-gender-equality-its-time-for-more-transparency/

Sustainable Development Spotlight: Make progress on gender equality with more data transparency

Molly Reynolds, a senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, explains what’s happening in Congress in the context of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, including attention to an increased effort to resettle refugees from there.

What's Happening in Congress: In the wake of the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan

David Wessel, senior fellow and director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution, explains one unnoticed provision of the 2017 Trump tax bill, the Opportunity Zone, which was intended to encourage development in poor neighborhoods around the country but instead unleashed a tax break gold rush for economic and political elites. Learn more in Wessel's forthcoming book from Public Affairs, "Only the Rich Can Play: How Washington Works in the New Gilded Age." https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/david-wessel/only-the-rich-can-play/9781541757196/

Wessel's Economic Update: How Opportunity Zones became tax havens for the rich

Joseph Kane, a fellow in the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution, explains how, with a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill pending in Congress, regional leaders and institutions can prepare future infrastructure workers now. For more, visit https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2021/09/16/five-ways-regional-leaders-can-prepare-future-infrastructure-workers-now/

Metro Lens: Filling infrastructure jobs goes far beyond construction

Tony Pipa, a senior fellow in the Center for Sustainable Development at the Brookings Institution, highlights the work of local elected leaders and private sector leaders in the U.S. who are prioritizing action on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

Learn more at: https://www.brookings.edu/events/american-leadership-in-advancing-the-sustainable-development-goals-3/

Sustainable Development Spotlight: American leadership in advancing the SDGs

Sarah Binder, a senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, explains three things to know about the Senate politics and procedures around lifting the debt ceiling. For more, see: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2021/09/28/how-worried-should-we-be-if-the-debt-ceiling-isnt-lifted/

What's Happening in Congress: Three things to know about lifting the debt ceiling

Hanna Love, a research associate with the Bass Center for Transformative Placemaking in the Brookings Metropolitan Policy program, discusses three trends shaping the future of rural America that she says the dominant narratives aren't very good at capturing. For more, visit, https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2021/09/28/mapping-rural-americas-diversity-and-demographic-change/

Metro Lens: Rural America is more diverse than you think

David Wessel, senior fellow and director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution, explains why inflation is back, why it's different this time, and what the Federal Reserve can do about it. For more, visit: https://www.brookings.edu/center/the-hutchins-center-on-fiscal-and-monetary-policy/

Wessel's Economic Update: Will current inflation continue?

John McArthur, senior fellow and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at the Brookings Institution, reflects on the Center's first anniversary, noting significant accomplishments of Center scholars and looking ahead to projects to come, including the "17 Rooms" podcast. For more, visit: https://www.brookings.edu/center/center-for-sustainable-development/

Sustainable Development Spotlight: First anniversary of the Center for Sustainable Development

Molly Reynolds, a senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, explains why Democratic leaders in Congress are using reconciliation to try to pass President Biden's legislative priorities, and why that process can be so difficult to use to achieve policy goals. For more, visit https://www.brookings.edu/events/reconciliation-101-an-explainer-of-the-budget-process/.

What's Happening in Congress: Using reconciliation to pass major legislation in Congress

Adie Tomer, senior fellow in Brookings Metro, reflects on the enactment of the new federal infrastructure program, which he calls the largest single investment in the country’s built environment in at least half a century. Learn more at https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2021/11/09/america-has-an-infrastructure-bill-what-happens-next/

Metro Lens: The historic infrastructure investment

David Wessel, senior fellow and director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution, addresses President Biden’s renomination of Jay Powell to be chair of the Federal Reserve, his nomination of Lael Brainard to be vice chair, and the big question confronting the Fed: inflation. Learn more at: https://www.brookings.edu/center/the-hutchins-center-on-fiscal-and-monetary-policy/

Wessel's Economic Update: The Federal Reserve and inflation

Sarah Binder, a senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, offers her view on the challenges that are piling up in Congress as the first session comes to a close in a matter of weeks. For more, visit www.brookings.edu

What's Happening in Congress: Legislative pileup at year's end

David Wessel, senior fellow and director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution, looks at the politics and the economics around raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour.

Wessel's Economic Update: Politics and economics of raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour

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