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United States Still a No-Vacation Nation



The United States is the only advanced economy that does not guarantee its workers any paid vacation time, according to a new review of international labor laws by CEPR. A story in USA Today features quotes from Senior Economist John Schmitt on the report.

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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


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CEPR in the News

USA Lags Behind Others in Paid Vacation, Holidays
USA Today, May 23, 2013


Signs of New Housing Bubble in Several Areas
CNN Money, May 17, 2013


As Japan Courts Growth, Europe Keeps Up Its Love Affair With Austerity
New York Times, May 16, 2013


WTO Chooses New Latin American Chief to Mark a Change in Course
Inter Press Service, May 15, 2013


Deficit Shrinks Faster than Expected, Undermining ‘the Austerity Gang’
MSNBC.com, May 15, 2013


What's Really Behind the Worker Shortage?
Bloomberg TV, May 10, 2013

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