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The Economic Recovery in Spain Should Push Unemployment Below 10 Percent by 2030Dean Baker / May 29, 2014
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Ahead of House Vote, Members of Congress Warn Sanctions Could Undermine Dialogue in VenezuelaCEPR / May 28, 2014
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Private Equity at Work: Buying High When Financial Markets Are Flying High May Mean Disappointing ReturnsEileen Appelbaum and Rosemary Batt / May 28, 2014
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#AAPI Workers the Least Likely to Be in Private Sector #UnionsSince it's Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, CEPR decided to take a look at some Census data about AAPI workers. Last week, we talked about low-wage AAPI workers and how an increase in the minimum wage could affect them.
Another interesting story is that of labor unions and AAPI workers. Along with Latinos, AAPIs are the fastest growing sector of the overall workforce as well as unions. The most recent data reveals that 1 in 9 AAPI workers is unionized, which is significantly lower than the rate for whites and blacks, and slightly higher than that of Latino workers.
CEPR and / May 28, 2014
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Why Would the Addition of Young Healthy People Raise the Cost of Insurance?Dean Baker / May 28, 2014
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The NYT Makes Silly Mistakes Because It is Determined to Use Numbers Without Any ContextDean Baker / May 28, 2014
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Why Don’t More People Go To College?John Schmitt / May 27, 2014
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L.A. Times Reports Low-Paid Workers Don't Have Much Money Even After Increase in the Minimum WageDean Baker / May 27, 2014
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Don't Buy the 'Sharing Economy' Hype: Airbnb and Uber are Facilitating Rip-offsDean Baker
The Guardian, May 27, 2014
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Did Geithner Save America from a Second Great Depression?Dean Baker
CNN Money, May 27, 2014
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NYT Gets Just About Everything Wrong In Discussing Euro Zone InflationDean Baker / May 27, 2014
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The Data Show the Case for College Is More Ambiguous than What the New York Times Tells YouDean Baker / May 27, 2014
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Syriza Is Opposed to the European Union's Anti-Growth Policy, Not the European UnionDean Baker / May 26, 2014
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The Wall Street Pension ScamDean Baker
Truthout, May 26, 2014
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Stress Test: The Indictment of Timothy GeithnerDean Baker
The Huffington Post, May 24, 2014
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Contrary to What You Read in the Washington Post, House Sales Have RecoveredDean Baker / May 23, 2014
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Washington Post Reports That David Autor Needs to Read His Research on Inequality More CarefullyDean Baker / May 23, 2014
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Remember When Venezuela and Bolivia Kicked the U.S. DEA Out of Their Countries, Accusing It of Espionage? Looks Like They Were Right…In their latest article on U.S. government spying for The Intercept, Ryan Devereaux, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras review and publish leaked documents that show that the U.S. government may have used the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to aid the National Security Agency (NSA) to spy on U.S. citizens and non-citizens in foreign countries. The NSA is shown to have assisted the DEA with efforts to capture narcotraffickers, but the leaked documents also refer to “a vibrant two-way information sharing relationship” between the two intelligence agencies, implying that the DEA shares its information with the NSA to aid with non-drug-related spying. This may explain how the NSA has gathered not just metadata but also the full-take audio from “virtually every cell phone conversation on the island nation of the Bahamas.”
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The DEA has long been in a unique position to help the NSA gain backdoor access to foreign phone networks. “DEA has close relationships with foreign government counterparts and vetted foreign partners,” the manager of the NSA’s drug-war efforts reported in a 2004 memo. Indeed, with more than 80 international offices, the DEA is one of the most widely deployed U.S. agencies around the globe.
But what many foreign governments fail to realize is that U.S. drug agents don’t confine themselves to simply fighting narcotics traffickers. “DEA is actually one of the biggest spy operations there is,” says Finn Selander, a former DEA special agent who works with the drug-reform advocacy group Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. “Our mandate is not just drugs. We collect intelligence.”
What’s more, Selander adds, the NSA has aided the DEA for years on surveillance operations. “On our reports, there’s drug information and then there’s non-drug information,” he says. “So countries let us in because they don’t view us, really, as a spy organization.”
CEPR and / May 22, 2014
