This week brought a new round of announcements from universities, even very wealthy ones, that they would be cutting faculty and…
States Should Borrow Rather than Make Brutal Cuts During a Recession and Pandemic
By Darien Shanske and David Gamage
In a world in which the level of government best suited to act (the federal government) is dysfunctional, subnational governments need to take extraordinary measures. Lest anything…
By Michael A. Livingston
(Posted by David Gamage on behalf of Michael A. Livingston)
These are tough times for higher education. Even name-brand institutions are announcing hiring freezes and salary cuts, among other austerity policies. This is perfectly understandable if your institution is a community…
By David Gamage and Darien Shanske
The COVID-19 pandemic is precipitating severe fiscal crises for state and local governments. This is occurring as businesses throughout the country have shut…
There is no time to lose in heading off large, destructive and unnecessary state and local budget cuts.
States and localities have already started planning for dramatic cuts to make up for plummeting…
By Brian Galle, David Gamage, Darien Shanske, & Erin Scharff[1]
COVID-19 is causing mass layoffs and related economic hardship, as well as budget…
By: Gladriel Shobe, David Gamage, Daniel Hemel, Ruth Mason & Darien Shanske
(Gladriel Shobe is the principal drafter of this essay and is thus listed first, with the remaining authors then…
For interested readers, I’m posting here the text of comments filed yesterday by me & about 2 dozen other tax law professors in response to proposed regulations on the deductibility of business meals. Interestingly, the President seems to share our…
