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Greg Acs, vice president for the Tax and Income Supports Division at the Urban Institute, spoke with Virginia Public Media about the risks of addressing affordability in a zero-sum context that focuses on who bears the short-term costs of a policy instead of its potential for growth.
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    Following the administration’s tariff announcement, LesLeigh Ford, a race and equity expert at the Urban Institute, and Robert McClelland, a tax and income supports expert, spoke with Capital B News about how some families and businesses may feel economic shifts more than others