Vice President Kamala Harris PWBM’s report reveals this plan is projected to cost taxpayers $84 billion and would disproportionately affect high-income earners. Roughly “750,000 households making over $312,000 in average household income” would be eligible for longer-term student debt cancellation.
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Arin Dube Gabriel Zucman Hi Prof Dube, I'm at PWBM and worked on these estimates. We see the same pattern as Jaravel - here's a quick attempt at his %ile scatter based on our CE/CPI calculations for 2021 and 2022
RTI is consistent for the same CY change, though hard to compare given group/concept diffs
David Sommers Peter St Onge, Ph.D. Thanks. keep in mind that PWBM has to assume Congress pass some kind of magical 'closure rule' around 2050 in order to stabilize debt/GDP.
What/how/when there will be bipartisan support for this closure rule is anyone's guess
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Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 PWBM’s report: Student loan bailout projected to cost taxpayers $84 billion, disproportionately affect high-income earners. “750,000 households making over $312,000 in average household income” would be eligible for longer-term student debt cancellation.
budget.house.gov/press-release/…
Scott Dworkin PWBM’s report: projected to cost taxpayers $84 billion and would disproportionately affect high-income earners.
“750,000 households making over $312,000
in average household income” would be eligible for longer-term student debt cancellation.
budget.house.gov/press-release/…
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According to the Wharton Institute, 'PWBM estimates that the Inflation Reduction Act would reduce non-interest cumulative deficits by $248 billion over the budget window with no impact on GDP in 2031. The impact on inflation is statistically indistinguishable from…