Windfall Policy Atlas

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Near Term

Policies that respond to immediate shocks to household income, employment, and access to essential services. These respond to front-loaded risks such as sudden layoffs in AI-exposed sectors, wage cuts as firms restructure, or sudden gaps in social safety nets.

Showing 7 out of 47 policies

Wealth Capture

Data Compensation

Payments to individuals for the use of their data in training AI models.

Public & Social Spending

Unemployment Benefits

Modernizing unemployment insurance to expand eligibility and duration.

Public & Social Spending

Job Guarantees & Public Works Programs

Governments functioning as an employer of last resort for all willing individuals.

Public & Social Spending

Wage Insurance

Temporary income supplements to displaced workers who accept reemployment at lower pay.

Public & Social Spending

Tax Credit Expansion

Scaling-up tax credit programs to to reach a broader set of workers.

Regulation & Market Design

Fiscal Automatic Stabilizers

Pre-legislated fiscal rules that activate automatically when economic indicators cross defined thresholds.

Regulation & Market Design

Monetary Policy Responses

Adaptations to central bank frameworks to manage AI-driven disruptions to prices and employment.

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