Jessica Schieder

During my time as a Revenue and Spending Policies Analyst at the Center for Effective Government, I explored how budget and tax policy decisions impact the ability of people across the country to thrive. 

My portfolio included research on the labor market, housing, nutrition, regulatory budgets, and various aspects of tax policy. Below is a sampling of my work.

Health Care

• Medicare: Protecting Seniors for 50 Years

Housing

• Americans with Troubled Mortgages Penalized While Banks Enjoy Tax Breaks

• Renters in Foreclosed Properties Could Be Left Out in the Cold

• Housing Subsidies: An Unfair Playing Field

• Privatizing Public Housing, RAD-ically

Infrastructure

• The Bridge to Prosperity-- coauthored with colleagues Nick Schwellenbach, former Senior Fiscal Policy Analyst, and Katherine McFate, President and CEO

Labor

• We Need More Wage Inspectors and Stronger Enforcement 

• Six Charts Explain How Workers’ Compensation Is Deteriorating

• "Flexibility" for Whom? Irregular Schedules, Other Practices Wreak Havoc on Workers

• American Workers to Congress: We Need a Raise

• Unemployment

  • Stories of Americans Cut Off of Emergency Unemployment Compensation

  • For more information on the "Witness Wednesdays: Voices of the Long Term Unemployed" campaign-- which I am incredibly proud to have managed alongside Rep. Sandy Levin (D-MI-09), his staff, and several key nonprofit partners-- visit the events' landing page: www.witnesswednesdays.org.

Nutrition

• House Slashes Food Assistance

• Sequestering Meals on Wheels Could Cost the Nation $489 Million per Year-- coauthored with my former colleague Patrick Lester, former Director of Fiscal Policy and someone who I'll always be thankful to for teaching me an immense amount while pulling together this report

Regulatory Enforcement

• Gasping for Support: Implementation of Tougher Air Quality Standards Will Require New Funds for State Agencies-- coauthored with my colleague Ronald White, Director of Regulatory Policy and all-round brilliant scientist

Tax

• Developing Nations Push Corporations to Pay Their Fair Share

• Inequality and the Estate Tax

• Bill Would Eliminate Child Tax Credit for Many Low-Income Families in 2018

• What We Could Invest In if We Ended Special Corporate Tax Breaks

Additional Pieces on Budget Process

• The Debt Ceiling: Why You Should Care and How It Came to Be