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Haiti: Two Years After the Earthquake

CEPR's Mark Weisbrot and Jake Johnston have a chapter in a book, Tectonic Shifts: Haiti Since the Earthquake. Two years later, hundreds of thousands remain homeless, more lack adequate sanitation, and the nation grapples with a cholera epidemic the UN refuses to take responsibility for causing. See our Haiti blog for more.

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Inventories Give Boost to Fourth Quarter GDP

A sharp reversal from the third quarter's decline in inventories added 1.94 percentage points to GDP growth in the fourth quarter, bringing the rate to 2.8 percent. For more, read our latest GDP Byte.

Among OECD Nations, United States has Highest Percentage of Workforce in Low-Wage Work

Amid concerns of high and rising rates of low-wage work, a new CEPR report looks at the recent experiences of the United States and other rich economies in the OECD and draws five distinct lessons showing that countries can succeed in reducing low pay, if they take the right steps.

Publications

Low-Wage Lessons
January 2012, John Schmitt
Pension Liabilities: Fear Tactics and Serious Policy
January 2012, David Rosnick and Dean Baker
Down and Out: Measuring Long-Term Hardship in the Labor Market
January 2012, John Schmitt and Janelle Jones
Latvia's Internal Devaluation: A Success Story?
December 2011, Mark Weisbrot and Rebecca Ray
Decreasing Inequality Under Latin America’s “Social Democratic” and “Populist” Governments: Is the Difference Real?
October 2011, Juan A. Montecino
The Argentine Success Story and its Implications
October 2011, Mark Weisbrot, Rebecca Ray, Juan A. Montecino and Sara Kozameh

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Op-Eds & Columns

Invisible Bond Vigilantes Attack the White House
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, January 24, 2012
Why Carried Interest Should Not Be Taxed at the Capital Gains Rate
Eileen Appelbaum
Economic Intelligence (U.S. News & World Report), January 23, 2012
U.S. Recovery Hasn’t Done Much for Employment
Mark Weisbrot
The Sacramento Bee (CA), January 19, 2012
Obama Increases Hostility Toward Venezuela: It’s an Election Year
Mark Weisbrot
Folha de São Paulo (Brazil), January 18, 2012
Em Português

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Research Tools

	Online Calculators Compare home ownership vs. rental costs and convert federal budget numbers into per capita or percentage totals. New: CLASP-CEPR Turnover Calculator.
	Data Bytes CEPR's analysis of government economic data releases (CPI, Jobs, GDP, etc.). Latest release: GDP Byte, Union Byte Jan 27
	Housing Bubble The latest research and analysis on the state of the housing market. Latest release: Housing Market Monitor, January 3
	Graphic Economics Graphic representations of data by CEPR researchers on important economic issues.
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CEPR in the News

New Figures Show Economy Improving — But Still Not Fast Enough
TPMDC, January 27, 2012

Union Membership Up Slightly, Outlook in Doubt
Associated Press (USA Today), January 27, 2012

Is Capitalism Under Attack in the 2012 Republican Race?
BBC News Magazine, January 20, 2012

'Vulture Capitalism'? How Private Equity Firms Work
Talk of the Nation (NPR), January 19, 2012

Haiti Disaster Help Lags Badly
USA Today, January 12, 2012

Scientists: UN Soldiers Brought Deadly Superbug to Americas
ABC News, January 12, 2012

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