Latest from Catherine Rampell

If we want to boost economic output and productivity, we need our policymakers to focus on why so many American women who want to work aren’t.

Annual outlays of health spending have been way lower than doomsday forecasters anticipated — and the sharpest slowdown has occurred with Medicare.

There are some hitches, but a similar tax could compensate for the tax policies of the past several decades.

Efforts to boost enrollment from low-income applicants have had a detrimental effect on those just one or two rungs higher on the economic ladder.