To create private-sector jobs and raise wages for those now working, we must make America a magnet for investment from abroad. A trade agenda to promote exports is one piece of competing in a global economy, but without an aggressive campaign to draw in foreign investors’ resources, the United States will miss key employment and economic growth opportunities.

There is a tax plan that offers the best of both worlds: growth and progressivity. It's called the Bradford X tax.

Do you need a place to fit 20 million elephants or 250 million donkeys? Look no further than the buildings of the federal government.  

Competing currents will continue to push the state corporate income tax in opposite directions.Ultimately, the only certainty is that this tax will remain an active and hotly debated part of the state revenue landscape well into the future.

While almost all politicians appear to favor the extension of tax cuts for low- and middle-income households, many politicians are disparaging investment and in particular the taxpayers who account for most of that investment.

Providing consumers with better information about college costs and quality would help hold postsecondary institutions accountable. Two new voluntary accountability systems miss the mark.

Increasing postsecondary attainment will require higher levels of college retention and completion; put simply, colleges and universities will have to do a better job of serving the students that they enroll.

Alex Brill and Alex Pollock discuss the impact of credit card swipe fees