Commentary: How did the One Big Beautiful Bill Act change Opportunity Zones?
Commentary: How did the One Big Beautiful Bill Act change Opportunity Zones?
- July 8, 2025
- Matthew Freedman, Shantanu Khanna and David Neumark, economics, Brookings, July 8, 2025 (Commentary)
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Matthew Freedman, Shantanu Khanna, and David Neumark of the University of California, Irvine, looking at 2018 and 2019 data, found “modest, if any, positive effects of the Opportunity Zone program on the employment, earnings, or poverty of zone residents.”
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