Employ America

ICYMI: The Past, Present, And Future Of Macroeconomic Policy Overview Employ America was founded to advance the cause of full employment. In a full employment economy, jobs are plentiful, wage growth is strong, and opportunities expand to those typically left out of the workforce. Full employment is also critical to

Overview We originally launched Employ America to confront the policy failures that plagued the decade following the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 (GFC). The failure of our policymakers to support workers and sustain aggregate demand during and following recessions had been an enduring obstacle, not just during the GFC, but

Summary The post-pandemic period was marked by global forces that raised inflation across all developed economies. Dominant explanations of inflation should be of a similarly global character. Policy discussions that reckon with counterfactuals and explainable magnitudes must go beyond nation-specific policies and dynamics. While local policies always shape inflation outcomes

The 1990s saw an extended period of full employment, high growth, and low inflation. Part of this achievement was attributable to healthcare cost control efforts undertaken by both public- and private-sector actors.

We take our nonpartisan public mission seriously. We do our best to highlight the threats to full employment, what public policy can do to achieve full employment, and the full suite of benefits that can flow from full employment. We'll have more to say in the coming months

It is critical to build markets where producers can access affordable hedges against price volatility, and where other participants will affirmatively “buy the dip” in order to manage supply-related price declines and keep critical producers investing in capacity.