Statement on the the Chained CPI and the President's Budget

CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker said in a recent statement that a proposal in the President's budget to adopt a chained CPI for the calculation of Social Security cost-of-living adjustments (COLA) would amount "to a substantial cut to Social Security benefits."

Statistical Study Shows That First Audit of Venezuelan Election is Decisive

A statistical analysis of the voting machine audit from Venezuela’s April 14 election, done on the day of the election, shows that this audit was decisive. The odds of getting the April 14 audit result if in fact the unaudited machines contained enough errors to reverse the election outcome are far less than one in 25 thousand trillion