Publications

Article Artículo

Dead Filipinos and Housing Bubbles Are Not Good News

Dean Baker / November 28, 2013

Article Artículo

Neil Irwin Gets Consumer Confidence Right

Dean Baker / November 28, 2013

Article Artículo

Workers

Every Day Low Wages

Workers at retail establishments across the country are gearing up for Black Friday sales. Workers at Walmart are also preparing for a series of actions across the country to protest low-wages at the retail giant.

John Schmitt and Janelle Jones / November 27, 2013

Article Artículo

Can't the Washington Post Find Someone Who Didn't Miss the Housing Bubble to Talk to About the State of the Housing Market?

Dean Baker / November 27, 2013

Article Artículo

NYT Says Obama Administration Thinks the Government Has Obligation to Protect Investors Who Are Too Dumb to Judge Risk

Dean Baker / November 27, 2013

Article Artículo

And Everyone Knows How Much 2.0 Billion Euros Is to Germany

Dean Baker / November 27, 2013

Article Artículo

Obamacare Needs Healthy People and It's Better If They Are Not Young

Dean Baker / November 27, 2013

Article Artículo

Stephen Roach is Badly Confused About China and the United States

Dean Baker / November 27, 2013

Article Artículo

Inequality

Workers

Miracle of Miracles: Good Reporting on Modern Family Structures in the NYT

Over the last year or so, the NYT has repeatedly dropped the ball in news stories and commentaries that involve modern family structures, particularly when it comes to working-class families and ones headed by an unmarried parent(s).

Shawn Fremstad / November 26, 2013

Article Artículo

Lower-End Homes Spur Jump in September House Prices

November 26, 2013

CEPR / November 26, 2013

Article Artículo

Government

Lower-End Homes Spur Jump in September House Prices

November 26, 2013

Dean Baker / November 26, 2013

Article Artículo

The Importance of Bubbles: Who's Pocketing the Cash

Dean Baker / November 26, 2013

report informe

Europe

Spain

World

Políticas alternativas para el retorno del pleno empleo en España

Noviembre 2013, David Rosnick y Mark Weisbrot

David Rosnick and Mark Weisbrot / November 25, 2013

Article Artículo

Inequality

Workers

The “War on Poverty” was a Fairly Conservative Initiative (Contra Ron Haskins, Cato, Heritage, AEI, and the Tea Party)

Over at the Brookings site, Ron Haskins rehearses the standard conservative story about the “War on Poverty” (which I’ll abbreviate here as WoP).

Shawn Fremstad / November 25, 2013

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Skills and Growth

The OECD recently released an enormously useful 466-page report(pdf) on labor-market skills in its member countries. The document is the first of what will be an annual series of OECD Skills Outlook reports, in the style of the organization’s regular Empl

John Schmitt / November 25, 2013

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Workers

Living Wages for Workers

In Local Living Wage Ordinances: Experience, Evidence and Best Practice, a recent report by the Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS), author Jody Knauss makes the case for increases in the minimum wage and discusses the most beneficial components of living wage laws.

CEPR and Teresa Kroeger / November 25, 2013

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Latin America and the Caribbean

Mexico

World

It Lowered Wages, as It Was Supposed to Do

Dean Baker
The New York Times, November 25, 2013

Dean Baker / November 25, 2013

Article Artículo

Affordable Care Act

Economic Growth

More Pain from the ACA: Spending Less on Health Care