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With more and more disasters occurring across the U.S., now is the time to discuss the long-term role of the federal government in helping survivors recover.

Matt Sedlar / September 21, 2023

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Health and Social Programs

Merger

Private Equity

United States

Comment on FTC Draft Merger Guidelines

CEPR welcomes the proposed merger guidelines put forward by the FTC and the DOJ. Research we have conducted finds that, absent these guidelines, mergers in healthcare have consolidated core parts of that industry, including doctors’ practices,

Eileen Appelbaum / September 21, 2023

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Off-the-Mark Media Coverage Aside, UAW Strike Shows the Time is Now for Workers to Unite

The US is in the throes of a major resurgence of union drives and strike activity, and the "hot labor summer" seems poised to become a vibrant labor autumn.

Sylvia Allegretto and Hayley Brown / September 21, 2023

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A High National Debt Can be Bad News, Sort of Like a High Stock Market

Dean Baker / September 20, 2023

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Quick Thoughts on the UAW Strike

Dean Baker / September 18, 2023

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Conservative Politicians Choose Higher Child Poverty Rates

Policymakers are choosing to have a high U.S. poverty rate and worsening the economic health of the nation.

Algernon Austin / September 14, 2023

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Subsidized Employment Can Reduce Crime and Gun Violence Among Black Men

Economic hardship, racial segregation, social isolation, joblessness, and other forms of underinvestment in communities contribute to high violent crime rates. Socioeconomic disadvantage is particularly concentrated in Black neighborhoods.

Algernon Austin / September 13, 2023

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Child Tax Credit

Health and Social Programs

New Analysis Shows Restoring the Expanded Child Tax Credit is Vital in an Age of Frequent Work Instability

Yesterday, the Census Bureau reported its annual income, poverty, and health insurance data for 2022.

Julie Yixia Cai / September 13, 2023

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Ecuador

Elections

Latin America and the Caribbean

Ecuador News Round-Up No. 5: Campaign for the Runoff Now Underway

With 100 percent of the votes counted in Ecuador’s presidential elections, the results are both surprising and in line with anticipated outcomes.

Pedro Labayen Herrera / September 12, 2023

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Consumer Price Index

Economic Crisis and Recovery

Inflation

United States

What To Look for in the August CPI

We’ve gotten surprisingly good news on both the core and overall inflation numbers for the last three months.

Dean Baker / September 12, 2023

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When It Comes to Saving Money on Health Care, There Are Some Things You Can’t Say in the NYT

Dean Baker / September 10, 2023

Article Artículo

Section 230: Can We Talk About It?

Dean Baker / September 09, 2023

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Haiti

Jovenel Moïse

Kenya

Latin America and the Caribbean

US Foreign Policy

Haiti News Round-Up No. 6: CARICOM Mediators Return to Port-au-Prince

On Monday, mediators from the CARICOM Eminent Persons Group arrived in Port-au-Prince to facilitate another round of negotiations

Jake Johnston and Chris François / September 08, 2023

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COVID-19

Long COVID

United States Government

Re: Proposed changes to the CDC’s Isolation Precautions: Preventing Transmission of Infectious Agents in Healthcare Settings

I echo calls from National Nurses United, the People’s CDC, and other concerned stakeholders to urge the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) to strengthen, not weaken, airborne infection controls in healthcare settings.

Hayley Brown / September 07, 2023

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Bret Stephens Inventive Anti-Biden Case in the NYT

Dean Baker / September 07, 2023

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Federal Reserve

United States

Workers

Work-Hour Volatility by the Numbers: How Do Workers Fare in the Wake of the Pandemic

Economic lives have become fluid in the United States during recent decades, with individual or family incomes often varying from month to month, from quarter to quarter, or across years.

Julie Yixia Cai / September 06, 2023

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Crypto and Finance Are Waste and a Drag on the Economy

Dean Baker / September 06, 2023

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COVID-19

Economic Growth

Intellectual Property

United States

Should People Be Happy About the Biden Economy?

Dean Baker / September 04, 2023

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Contrary to What You Read in the NYT, the Typical Worker is Not $2,000 Behind Their Pre-Pandemic Pay

Wages did fall behind inflation in 2021 and the first half of 2022, but since then they have regained lost ground and are now slightly higher than they were before the pandemic, after adjusting for inflation.

Dean Baker / September 02, 2023

Jobs Byte Artículo

Unemployment Rate Rises to 3.8 Percent in August Due to Big Rise in Labor Force Participation

This report should be good news in that it is showing slightly slower wage growth and also a pace of hours growth suggesting another quarter of good productivity growth.

Dean Baker / September 01, 2023

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