Publications

More Mind Reading at the Washington Post

I'm sure many Republicans in Congress have complained that the rescue package cannot be seen as an effort to get bipartisan cooperation, but it would require some serious mind-reading to know that this is how they actually see the package.

Dean Baker / January 23, 2021

Union Membership Byte Artículo

Unions

Workers

PREVIEW: Union Membership Byte 2021

The union membership rate rose by 0.5 percentage point to 10.8 percent in 2020, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports today.

Hayley Brown / January 22, 2021

Union Membership Byte Artículo

Unions

Workers

Union Membership Byte 2021

The overall union membership rate increased by half a percentage point in 2020, rising to 10.8 percent of all employed

Hayley Brown / January 22, 2021

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Globalization and Trade

Intellectual Property

Trump Crazy and Intellectual Crazy

I am referring to my standard complaint about the unwillingness to acknowledge the ways in which the economy has been structured to redistribute income upward.

Dean Baker / January 18, 2021

Article Artículo

Globalization and Trade

Intellectual Property

Even In the Face of Coup Attempt, NYT Continues Propaganda for Upward Redistribution Through Trade

It would be helpful if the NYT and other media outlets could stop trying to pretend that the upward redistribution from globalization was some sort of natural process involving free trade.

Dean Baker / January 15, 2021

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Brazil

Latin America and the Caribbean

World

“Brazil is Broken”: Bolsonaro, COVID, and the Looming Return to Austerity

Without a fundamental change in governing priorities, Brazil will enter into a very difficult period in the coming months and years.

January 15, 2021

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Health and Social Programs

The DeFazio Bill: Reducing the Financial Industry’s Tax on Retirement Savings

DeFazio is proposing a bill that will substantially reduce the size of the financial industry’s tax on our savings.

Dean Baker / January 15, 2021

Article Artículo

Family Benefits in US Fall Further Behind

While Canada and the United States spent similar amounts in 2000, Canada now spends twice the US amount, as does Japan.

Shawn Fremstad and Simran Kalkat / January 14, 2021

Article Artículo

World

CEPR News: Guide to Federal Budget Activism for Advocates, Decision-Makers, Public

Trump should be removed from office ASAP

Dan Beeton / January 14, 2021

Article Artículo

A Big Jump In Gas Prices Pushes Overall CPI Up 0.4 Percent In December

The pandemic has led to a real flip in price trends.

Dean Baker / January 13, 2021

Article Artículo

Affordable Care Act

Health and Social Programs

Intellectual Property

Debt and Deficits, Yet Again

With a Democrat in the White House, the season of the deficit hawk has returned. So, it’s worth going through the old arguments just to remind everyone that the best response to these people is ridicule.

Dean Baker / January 13, 2021

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Economic Growth

PREVIEW: What to Look for in the December Consumer Price Index

We are likely to see some of the pandemic-specific price effects that occurred in the spring ... [but] nowhere near as large as the impact of the spring shutdowns.

Dean Baker / January 12, 2021

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How to Make Joe Biden’s Budget Better, Part I: Send Money Now!

A new day in public policy beckons with the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. There is much to do. Popular attention tends to focus on taxes and spending, but the Biden Administration will have additional, powerful tools at its disposal.

Max B. Sawicky / January 11, 2021

Jobs Byte Artículo

Jobs

Workers

Pandemic-Caused Plunge in Restaurant Jobs Leads to First Job Loss Since April

The pain from the recession is heavily concentrated among the long-term unemployed.

Dean Baker / January 08, 2021

Jobs Byte Artículo

PREVIEW: What to Look for in the December Jobs Report

The fact that so much of the unemployment has been long-term, and that average hours have not dropped, means that the pain from this recession has been highly concentrated.

Dean Baker / January 05, 2021

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Why Partisanship Will Increase in the Post-Trump Era

Many are hoping that when Trump leaves office, the historically elevated levels of partisanship in US politics will at least begin to subside. But the opposite is vastly more likely.

Mark Weisbrot / January 04, 2021

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New York Times Joins Trump’s Anti-China Crusade

If the pandemic was already present in Europe by December of 2019 then China's actions in January 2020 could not have prevented its spread to the rest of the world.

Dean Baker / December 30, 2020

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