Jacob Hacker

Kamala Harris had a great health care idea in 2019: encourage Americans to buy into a revamped Medicare program that would provide the choice of public or private coverage (aka the public option). She should embrace it in 2024. My latest in @nytopinion: nytimes.com/2024/08/14/opi…

“Legislation speaks louder than words.” Excellent analysis by @Jacob_S_Hacker & @sullosaurus of the bill before the Senate today that is “the most regressive, least populist policy package in memory.” It’s terrible on tax equity, heath care & hunger.

I’m excited to share a guest essay co-authored with @Jacob_S_Hacker which was published today with the @nytimes, as well as two reports we published at @equitablegrowth on Republican’s so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” nytimes.com/2025/06/25/opi…

"It would shift more resources up the income ladder than any bill passed since scorekeepers started keeping track." In this @nytopinion piece, @Jacob_S_Hacker and Patrick Sullivan highlight the four most regressive aspects of the 'Big Beautiful Bill.' nytimes.com/2025/06/25/opi…

Why are Republicans working nights on a holiday week to ram thru an unvetted bill? Maybe b/c the more American people learn abt the bill, particularly the lopsided costs & benefits, the less they like it. Even true among Rs' own voters. h/t @Jacob_S_Hacker @equitablegrowth

As the House moves to reconcile its dreadful bill with the Senate’s even more onerous “Big Beautiful Bill,” we speak with Patrick Sullivan about his NYT article with @Jacob_S_Hacker, “How Awful Is the Republican Megabill? Here Are Four of the Worst Parts.” on.soundcloud.com/hyUwAByY67pqkd…

What does the public think of the GOP's One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), and how does providing information on its regressivity affect attitudes towards it? @Jacob_S_Hacker and I explored this in a working paper published today at @equitablegrowth equitablegrowth.org/working-papers…

In the first of our two reports published today at @equitablegrowth, @Jacob_S_Hacker and I unpack the elements of Republican’s historically regressive One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). equitablegrowth.org/congressional-…

It's the economy, stupid. Right? A new tool, now at Yale, seeks to rethink how we measure economic success: bit.ly/44fqeon @Jacob_S_Hacker @americanacad

Reading John Roemer as well as @Jacob_S_Hacker and Paul Pierson is a good use of everyone’s time. wwnorton.com/books/97816314…

How the economic and political geography of the United States fuels right-wing populism—and what the Democratic Party can do about it equitablegrowth.org/how-the-econom… via @equitablegrowth