Benjamin Landy is a Policy Associate at The Century Foundation, where he writes about income inequality, college access and affordability, retirement security, and domestic politics. He contributes to TCF’s Graph of the Day feature and holds a B.A. from Columbia University, where he studied 19th and 20th century American history.
Blog of the Century Posts by Benjamin Landy
- Rising Health Care Costs Are Quietly Strangling the Middle Class
- May 6, 2013
- The Collapse of Funding for Public Higher Education: What Quartz Missed On the Student Debt Story
- May 1, 2013
- How the Senate Killed Gun Control In One Map
- April 19, 2013
- Graph: How Rising Student Debt Is Preventing Millennials from Becoming Homeowners
- April 18, 2013
- Graph: America’s Long-Term Unemployment Crisis Continues
- April 15, 2013
- Graph: Can Congress Be Trusted With Tax Reform?
- April 11, 2013
- To Battle Income Inequality, Focus on Educational Mobility
- April 8, 2013
- Graph: For Every Job We’ve Created Since 2011, Someone Left the Labor Force
- April 5, 2013
- Graph: Why Democrats Need to Push Back on Social Security
- April 4, 2013
- Graph: As State Funding For Higher Education Collapses, Students Pay the Difference
- March 21, 2013
- The Delinquent Generation: Why Students Aren’t Repaying Their Loans
- March 14, 2013
- Video: Wealth Inequality in the U.S. Is Worse Than You Think
- March 4, 2013
- Graph: The Wealth Gap Between Blacks and Whites Has Tripled Since 1984. Here’s Why.
- March 1, 2013
- Graph: How the Financial Sector Consumed America’s Economic Growth
- February 25, 2013
- Graph: How Inflation Erodes the Minimum Wage (And Why It’s Time to Raise It, Permanently)
- February 14, 2013
- Map: Raising the Federal Minimum Wage to $9 Would Increase Worker Pay in 49 States
- February 13, 2013
- Graph: The Growing Education Gap Between Rich and Poor (Continued)
- February 10, 2013
- Graph: How Closing the Carried Interest Loophole Would Save Billions
- February 8, 2013
- Progressives’ Balanced Approach to the Sequester Is DOA in Congress—That’s a Problem
- February 6, 2013
- Map: The 10 States Planning to Shift Their Tax Burden from the Rich to the Poor
- February 1, 2013
- Graph: Household Debt and Middle Class Stagnation
- January 29, 2013
- Graph: An Economic Snapshot of the United States As Obama Begins His Second Term
- January 24, 2013
- Republican Governors Promise Tax Cuts for “Job Creators” Financed by Higher Taxes on the Poor
- January 16, 2013
- Graph: America Has a Part-time Employment Problem
- January 11, 2013
- Graph: State Finances Projected to Recover in 2013, but Second Fiscal Cliff Looms
- January 8, 2013
- Meet “Dirty Dozen” Tax Break #12: Exclusion of Fringe Benefits through Cafeteria Plans
- January 4, 2013
- Meet “Dirty Dozen” Tax Break #11: The Small Life Insurance Company Deduction
- January 4, 2013
- Meet “Dirty Dozen” Tax Break #10: Special Tax Rules for Employee Stock Ownership Plans
- January 3, 2013
- Meet “Dirty Dozen” Tax Break #9: Timber Subsidies
- December 21, 2012
- Meet “Dirty Dozen” Tax Break #8: The Exemption of Credit Union Income
- December 20, 2012
- Meet “Dirty Dozen” Tax Break #7: Medical Savings Accounts
- December 19, 2012
- Meet “Dirty Dozen” Tax Break #6: Tax Credits for Nonconventional Fuels
- December 17, 2012
- Meet “Dirty Dozen” Tax Break #5: Exemption of Interest on Municipal Bonds
- December 14, 2012
- Meet “Dirty Dozen” Tax Break #4: The Graduated Corporate Income Tax Rate
- December 13, 2012
- Meet “Dirty Dozen” Tax Break #3: Regional Economic Development Incentives
- December 12, 2012
- Is Student Debt the Next Financial Crisis?
- December 12, 2012
- Meet “Dirty Dozen” Tax Break #2: The “Percentage Depletion” Deduction
- December 10, 2012
- Meet “Dirty Dozen” Tax Break #1: Export Tax Incentives
- December 7, 2012
- Graph: Why Construction Employment May Not Rebound Until 2014
- December 7, 2012
- Graph: Corporate Profits Rise to New Heights as Wages Decline
- December 4, 2012
- Graph: Why We Need Filibuster Reform
- November 30, 2012
- Graph: How We Measure Poverty
- November 15, 2012
- Graph: How to Go Over the Fiscal Cliff, Ctd.
- November 12, 2012
- Graph: The Slow Recovery Continues. Which Party Will Take Credit?
- November 6, 2012
- Map of the Day: Despite Job Growth, a Housing Hangover
- October 24, 2012
- Infograph: The New United Nations Security Council Members
- October 19, 2012
- Presidential Debate Reveals Candidates’ Lack of Vision
- October 18, 2012
- Graph: How to Go Over the Fiscal Cliff
- October 12, 2012
- IMF Warns Fiscal Cliff Could Bring European-Style Austerity to America
- October 11, 2012
- Graph: The Submerged State
- September 26, 2012
- Graph: How Progressive Is the Tax Code, Really?
- September 19, 2012
- Graph: Are We Winning the War on Poverty?
- September 17, 2012
- Graph: Census Report Shows Middle Class Decline in 2011
- September 13, 2012
- Voter Suppression by the Numbers
- September 7, 2012
- Graph: The One Graph That Proves Gas Prices Didn’t Surge Because of Obama
- August 29, 2012
- Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan Support Partial Privatization of Social Security
- August 28, 2012
- Graph: A “Lost Decade” for the Middle Class?
- August 24, 2012
- Graph: How Not to Fix the Deficit
- August 20, 2012
- Graph: Does Productivity Growth Still Benefit the American Worker?
- August 14, 2012
- Graph: Senate Republicans’ Dishonest Tax Politics
- July 31, 2012
- Graph: The GOP’s Unserious Proposal
- July 24, 2012
- Graph: How America Pays for College
- July 17, 2012
- Three Cheers for the ACA’s Surtax on Investment Income
- July 8, 2012
- Graph: How Much Does “Obamacare” Raise Taxes, Really?
- July 3, 2012
- Graph: Making Progress on Higher Education
- June 17, 2012
- Graph: Where Can You Live on Minimum Wage?
- June 3, 2012
- Graph: Did Income Inequality Cause the Financial Crisis?
- May 29, 2012
- Graph: “The Great Divergence”
- April 25, 2012
- Graph: Balancing the Budget on the Backs of the Poor
- April 11, 2012
- Graph: Student Debt and the Middle Class (Part 3)
- April 5, 2012
- Graph: Student Debt and the Middle Class (Part 2)
- April 2, 2012
- Graph: Student Debt, the Trillion Dollar Threat to the American Middle Class
- March 29, 2012
- Graph: President Obama, Fiscal Conservative?
- March 20, 2012
- Graph: Few Americans Prepared for Retirement
- March 14, 2012
- Graph: The 1 Percent’s Jobless Recovery
- March 14, 2012
- Graph: What Slowing Productivity Growth Means for Tomorrow’s Jobs Report
- March 8, 2012
- Graph: The Case for Corporate Tax Reform
- February 29, 2012
- Graph: Putting the Squeeze on Labor, Part II
- February 22, 2012
- Graph: Putting the Squeeze on Labor
- February 22, 2012
- Graph: Who Benefits from Our “Entitlement Society”?
- February 14, 2012
- Graph: For High-Scoring Students, Socioeconomic Status Still Matters
- February 9, 2012
- Graph: Busting the Myths about Food Stamps
- January 24, 2012
- Graph: Capital Gains Drive Inequality
- January 4, 2012
- Graph: Half of Schools Fail to Meet “No Child Left Behind” Standards
- December 22, 2011
- Graph: Corporate Tax Breaks Cost U.S. Nearly a Quarter of a Trillion Dollars
- November 17, 2011
- Graph: Health Care Costs Continue to Rise
- November 10, 2011
- Graph: Parsing David Brooks’ Red and Blue Inequality
- November 7, 2011
- Graph: Has the Decline of Unions Made America Less Equal?
- November 2, 2011
- Graph: New Numbers on Rising Inequality from CBO
- October 27, 2011
- Graph: Household Credit Market Recovering, But Student Debt Soars
- October 20, 2011
- Graph: Income Inequality Weakens Economic Growth
- October 3, 2011
- Graph: Privatizing Government Is Bad Business
- September 19, 2011
- Graph: Poverty on the Rise in America
- September 13, 2011
- Graph: Why Deregulation Won’t Fix the Economy
- September 8, 2011
Items Featuring Benjamin Landy
- Introducing the “Dirty Dozen” Tax Breaks
- December 6, 2012
By Benjamin Landy
- The Delinquent Generation: Why Students Aren’t Repaying Their Loans
- March 13, 2013
