There were legislative accomplishments, like the Inflation Reduction Act and the CHIPS Act. But there was also elevated inflation.
Talk of a Supreme Court nomination is on everyone’s lips these days, but Congress has an economic laundry list to address.
In other developed countries, affordability is far less of an issue.
The American political system makes it easier to block change than to create it, explains Shannon Osaka of Grist.
The bipartisan infrastructure bill’s passage was a win for the administration’s climate agenda, but many think Biden’s commitment to climate policy lies at the feet of the Build Back Better bill.
The payments typically came through about this time, but not this month. Some families had come to depend on that extra money.
“We don’t really have a plan without the Build Back Better Act to stop the warming,” a UC Santa Barbara professor says.
What’s the link between government funding for aid and new programs and that 6.8% inflation rate?
Zach Moller talks about what a Congressional Budget Office score is and how it affects legislation.
