Research Roundup

In this week’s Research Roundup, reports by: Connecticut Voices for Children on the economic effect of a minimum wage increase, Wider Opportunities for Women on the economic insecurity of older Americans, the Southern Poverty Law Center on the devastation caused by the anti-immigrant HB 56, Demos and USPIRG on the effect of the rise of Super PACs, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy on how states with ‘high’ income tax rates are outperforming no-tax states, the Kaiser Family Foundation on mapping the effects of the ACA's coverage expansions, and an analysis by the Immigration Policy Center of data from the Pew Hispanic Center on how immigrants contribute to the U.S. economy.

In this week’s Research Roundup: Reports from Demos on the need for new measures beyond GDP, Families USA on the Massachusetts health care plan vs. the Affordable Care Act, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the National Academy of Social Insurance on Medicaid and health exchanges under the ACA, the Corporation for Enterprise Development ranking the 50 states by the financial security of residents, and the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Alabama on the billions of dollars the state is set to lose thanks to their anti-immigrant law.

In this week’s Research Roundup: Recent reports from NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Political Economy Research Institute, Center for Economic and Policy Research, US Action Education Fund, Center for Rural Strategies, Pew Center on the States, Good Jobs First, Commonwealth Fund, Economic Opportunity Institute, and more.