Andrew Fieldhouse is a federal budget policy analyst with The Century Foundation and the Economic Policy Institute, primarily covering tax policy and the role of fiscal policy on economic recovery. He previously worked as an assistant budget analyst and research assistant with the House Budget Committee. Andrew coauthored Investing in America’s Economy: A Budget Blueprint for Economic Recovery and Fiscal Responsibility, a long-term progressive budget proposal by Our Fiscal Security, a partnership of Demos, EPI, and TCF. His areas of research and interest include federal tax and budget policy, political economy, public investment, and macroeconomics. Andrew provides frequent commentary on budgetary and economic debates, and has appeared as a guest on CNN, PBS Nightly Business Report, C-SPAN, CNBC, Fox News, Fox Business News, the BBC, and Al Jazeera English. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and Political Science from Swarthmore College.
Blog of the Century Posts by Andrew Fieldhouse
- Flying Blind: Conservative’s Frightening Attack on Economic Data Collection
- May 1, 2013
- Reinhart and Rogoff Couldn’t Justify Austerity Before It Was Debunked
- April 30, 2013
- Building a Tax Code for Today
- April 30, 2013
- Tax Day 2013: For the Vast Majority, It’s All About the Expired Payroll Tax Cut
- April 16, 2013
- The Obama Budget’s Misguidedly Lower Revenue Target
- April 12, 2013
- No, New Tax Cuts Will Not Pay for Themselves
- April 4, 2013
- Senate Democratic Budget Overly Focused on Deficit Reduction
- March 26, 2013
- Aggressively targeting a full recovery is the least risky thing you can do: Back to Work Budget edit
- March 22, 2013
- House Democratic Budget Would Also Boost Employment
- March 19, 2013
- Ryan proposes another path to fewer jobs and slower growth
- March 12, 2013
- Sequestration Was Never About Fiscal Responsibility
- February 28, 2013
- GOP Economic Sabotage Strikes Again with Sequestration
- February 28, 2013
- The Progressive Caucus’s Sensible Approach to Sequestration: Prioritizing Jobs and Growth
- February 5, 2013
- When and What Kind of Deficit Reduction Matters Most
- January 25, 2013
- The Importance of Revenue Revisited
- January 24, 2013
- The Economic Context for Tax Reform: A Lot Has Changed in a Decade
- January 8, 2013
- The Budget Deal’s Labor Market Deterioration
- January 3, 2013
- Boehner’s “Plan B” Would Result in an Austerity-induced Recession
- December 21, 2012
- Best Fiscal Policy Development of 2012
- December 20, 2012
- Obama’s Opening Bid is Familiar and Sound
- November 30, 2012
- Since When Do We Congratulate Ourselved Just for Not Going Over a Cliff?
- November 19, 2012
- What Does President Obama’s Re-Election Mean for the “Fiscal Cliff”?
- November 8, 2012
- False equivalence in candidates’ budgetary unknowns
- October 17, 2012
- Even More Mathematically Impossible Tax Promises
- October 4, 2012
- Obama’s Budget Policies Would Be Better for Growth than Romney’s
- September 26, 2012
- Obama’s Budget Policies Would Be Better for Growth than Romney’s
- September 26, 2012
- What a Romney-Ryan Budget Would Mean for Americans
- August 13, 2012
- The Efficiencies of Publicly Provided Health Care, Revisited
- June 28, 2012
Items Featuring Andrew Fieldhouse
- Congressional Republicans Have Indeed Smothered a Rapid Economic Recovery
- January 18, 2013
- Navigating the Fiscal Obstacle Course
- November 14, 2012
By Andrew Fieldhouse
- How High Should Top Income Tax Rates Be? Getting the Fight Right.
- April 12, 2013
- Obama’s Budget is Bad Policy and Bad Politics
- April 11, 2013
- How High Should Top Income Tax Rates Be? (Hint: Much Higher)
- April 10, 2013
- Forget Spending Cuts, the U.S. Economy Really Needs a $2 Trillion Stimulus
- March 6, 2013