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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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Strong Job Growth Leads to Drop in Black/Hispanic Unemployment

The unemployment rate fell to 8.3 percent in January, bringing its drop over the last year to 0.8 percentage points. African Americans in particular saw an especially sharp decline in unemployment, with their overall rate falling to 13.6 percent, the lowest level since March of 2009.

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

A Primer on Private Equity at Work: Management, Employment, and Sustainability
February 2012, Eileen Appelbaum
The Necessity of a Lower Dollar and the Route There
February 2012, Dean Baker
Low-Wage Lessons
January 2012, John Schmitt
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

Deficit Reduction Won't Create Jobs
Dean Baker
Economic Intelligence (U.S. News & World Report), February 10, 2012
The Facebook Follies
Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, February 7, 2012
Europe May Be the Biggest Threat to Obama's Re-Election Bid
Mark Weisbrot
Economic Intelligence (U.S. News & World Report), February 6, 2012
Interview with Mark Weisbrot on the Eurozone: Self-Inflicted Depression
Mark Weisbrot
New Left Project, February 6, 2012

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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: Jobs Byte, Feb 3
	Housing Bubble The latest research and analysis on the state of the housing market. Latest release: Housing Market Monitor, January 31
	Graphic Economics Graphic representations of data by CEPR researchers on important economic issues.
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CEPR in the News

Stock Rally is Turning Even Biggest Bears into Bulls
The Los Angeles Times, February 08, 2012

Let's Make Super Monday A National Holiday
Yahoo! Sports, February 07, 2012

Big Drop in Unemployment Rate for Blacks
CNN Money, February 03, 2012

Terrorism and Development in Peru
Al Jazeera English, February 01, 2012

It Is Safe to Resume Ignoring the Prophets of Doom ... Right?
The New York Times Magazine, February 01, 2012

Where Did Haiti's Aid Go?
The Chicago Tribune, January 29, 2012

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