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  • 14-September-2023

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    Embracing a One Health Framework to Fight Antimicrobial Resistance in the United States

    Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) – the ability of microbes to resist antimicrobials - remains an alarming global health threat that jeopardises the effectiveness of many 20th century public health advances. In recent years, the United States made important strides in tackling AMR. Yet, more progress is needed.

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  • 22-June-2023

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    OECD Environmental Performance Reviews: United States 2023

    The United States, the world’s largest economy, has made progress in reducing several environmental pressures while maintaining one of the highest Gross Domestic Products per capita in the world. It has decoupled emissions of greenhouse gases, air pollutants, water abstractions and domestic material consumption from economic and population growth. However, high consumption levels, intensive agricultural practices, climate change and urban sprawl continue to put pressure on the natural environment. Despite the recent acceleration of action to address climate change, further efforts are needed to achieve the goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The United States is also among the major contributors to marine litter with serious consequences for communities and the environment. The review provides 30 recommendations to help the United States improve its environmental performance, with a special focus on marine litter and a cross-cutting focus on environmental justice. This is the third Environmental Performance Review of the United States. It provides an independent, evidence-based evaluation of the country’s environmental performance over the past decade.

  • 9-May-2023

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    Joining Forces for Gender Equality: key findings for the United States

    Joining Forces for Gender Equality comprehensively analyses developments and policies for gender equality, including issues such as gender mainstreaming and budgeting, reforms to increase fathers’ involvement in parental leave and childcare, pay transparency initiatives to tackle gender pay gaps, and systems to address gender-based violence.

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  • 9-May-2023

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    Benefit Reforms for Inclusive Societies in the United States - Income Security During Joblessness

    Protecting people, rather than specific jobs, plays a key role in promoting labour-market inclusiveness and dynamism. Effective unemployment benefits reduce inequality, and facilitate a good match between workers’ skills and job requirements. They are a crucial policy lever for adapting to the major societal, technological and environmental transitions of our time. This report on the United States is the second of a number of OECD country reviews of income support policies. Each report analyses key policy challenges, discusses recent reform initiatives, and identifies good practices from other OECD countries. The report examines the reach and generosity of unemployment insurance and other income support for working age households, with a special focus on disadvantaged labour market groups. What are key gaps in benefit receipt between wage- and salaried employees and non-standard workers (part-time workers, those on temporary contracts, and self-employed workers including own-account workers)? What factors, including race/ethnicity and gender, drive non-entitlement to unemployment compensation? The report examines these questions, considers the impact of recent extensions to the unemployment insurance programme in response to the COVID pandemic, and outlines policy directions for strengthening out-of-work support.

  • 25-April-2023

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    Taxing Wages: Key findings for the United States

    The tax wedge for the average single worker in the United States increased by 2.2 percentage points from 28.3% in 2021 to 30.5% in 2022. The OECD average tax wedge in 2022 was 34.6% (2021, 34.6%).

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  • 30-November-2022

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    Revenue Statistics: Key findings for the United States

    The OECD’s annual Revenue Statistics report found that the tax-to-GDP ratio in the United States increased by 0.8 percentage points from 25.8% in 2020 to 26.6% in 2021. Between 2020 and 2021, the OECD average increased from 33.6% to 34.1%.

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  • 11-November-2022

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    OECD Development Co‑operation Peer Reviews: United States 2022

    The OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) conducts peer reviews of individual members once every five to six years. Reviews seek to improve the quality and effectiveness of members’ development co-operation, highlighting good practices and recommending improvements. The United States has led with substantial ODA contributions in response to multiple crises. Twenty-one US government agencies programme and deliver foreign assistance. USAID systematically incorporates collaboration, learning and adapting in its programme cycle and works to increase diversity, equity and inclusion by championing locally-led approaches. This peer review provides a set of recommendations for the United States to mitigate negative transboundary effects of its policies, promote more flexible budget appropriations in line with needs, equip its development finance institution to deliver and adopt a clearer approach to multilateral partnerships. It recommends that the United States puts development effectiveness at the heart of localisation, reinforce human resources, and consider conflict prevention in all country programmes.

  • 12-October-2022

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    United States: Continue to tackle macroeconomic challenges while supporting the middle class and preparing for population ageing, says OECD

    After a rapid recovery from the pandemic, the U.S. economy faces significant challenges from surging inflation and slowing economic activity, according to a new OECD report.

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  • 8-December-2021

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    Pensions at a Glance 2021 - Key findings for the United States

    Key findings for the United States from the report "Pensions at a Glance 2021"

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  • 9-November-2021

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    Health at a Glance 2021: Key findings for the United States

    Life expectancy fell by 1.6 years in the United States in 2020 ; COVID-19 vaccinations have plateaued despite a strong start. Health at a Glance 2021 provides the latest comparable data and trends on the performance of health systems in OECD countries and key emerging economies. Alongside indicator-by-indicator analysis, this edition offers a special chapter on the health impact of COVID-19.

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