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CEPR in the News (Archive) Associated Press: $1.2 Billion in Debts Canceled to Help Haiti Reuters: Honduras Coup Holds Few Risks for Latin Leftists Mother Jones: Congress's $1.2 Million a Day Drug Habit—and Pharma's Phony "Gift" to Health Care Reform City Limits (NY): Ecuadorians in NYC Mull a Migration Home Markets Media Online: The Dividend Difference Al-Jazeera: World Leaders Condemn Honduran Coup Russia Today: “Zelaya May Be Returned Soon” BBC World: Interview With Mark Weisbrot on the Coup in Honduras Huffington Post: Pecora Whirling KVBC (NBC, Las Vegas): What the Unemployment Rate Doesn't Tell Us Reuters: New Fed Powers Not Matched with Accountability The Hill: Employee Free Choice Act: A Second Stimulus Associated Press: Meltdown 101: Where do Home Prices Really Stand? The Progressive: At Press Conference, Obama Retreats on Health Care, Economy Capital Times (WI): Tammy Baldwin vs. the Political Lockstep Xinhua: What is Driving Oil and Gas Prices? Inter Press Service: World Bank, IMF Heads Skip Summit on Global Crisis Huffington Post: 238 Members of Congress Disagree with Obama: The Fed Needs More Accountability Sacramento Bee (CA): Bailed-Out Bank's Deals Raise Concerns Associated Press: More Transparency Needed from Fed Watertown Daily Times (NY): Federal Dependents Politico: Arena: Is the Fed Getting Too Much Power? MSNBC: Financial Reform Still in the Early Innings Reuters: Swine Flu Outbreak at Miami Immigration Center to be Discussed on AFGE Radio Show Miami Herald: Obama Rolls Out Sweeping Financial Regulation Package Politico: Arena: What Obstacles Await Obama on Health Care? Forbes: Congress' Chance To Change The IMF CNBC: Financial Reform Stirs Debate: How Much Power to Give Fed? The Guardian: Obama Launches Overhaul of US Financial Regulation The Hill: Financial Overhaul Plan Draws Many Critics The Hill: Norquist, GOP Pin Hopes on Spending Flashpoints (KPFA FM): The U.S. Congress Passes a $106 Billion War Spending Bill Free Speech Radio News: IMF Obligations Get in the Way of US War Spending Bill Reuters: Obama Officials Lobby Lawmakers to Approve IMF Money NJBIZ: Bill to Allow Mandatory Paid Time Off Faces Opposition from Business Your Money (CNN): Who Picks Up America's Spending Tab? Politico: Arena Digest: Exec Pay Reforms: Useful or Useless? Dissident Voice: Will There be Zimbabwe-Type Hyperinflation in the USA? Workforce Management: SHRM, Democrats Tangle Over Paid-Sick-Days Bill The Motley Fool: The Most Dangerous Way to Invest Today Huffington Post: The IMF Accountability Moment Las Vegas Review: Home Sales Up, Prices Down CSPAN: Morning Hour, House Proceeding The Hill: Frank Defends Intervention to Save GM Facility in his District Radio Free Europe: China, Russia Line Up To Buy IMF's First Bonds CNBC: Four More for Ben? Wall Street Journal: Obama's Speeches Setting a High Bar for Results Huffington Post: Simon Johnson: Via IMF, Our Tax Money Will Bail Out Eurobanks The Hill: Bad Jobs Data Spur Obama on Stimulus St. Petersburg Times: Sick Times Means a Healthier Economy Deutsche Presse Agentur: Boosting US Funds for IMF Proves a Hard Sell for Obama USA Today: Mortgage Crisis Robbing Seniors of Golden Years Fox Business: Congress Reaction to Job Numbers UPI: AARP Says Recession Hitting Retirees Hard Realtor Magazine: Housing Crisis Tarnishes Golden Years Greenwich Time: Rep's Case Against Sick Leave is Superficial USA Today: Benefit Spending Soars to New Highs USA Today: Former Treasury Secretary Summers Adapts His Style Charlotte Observer: Don't Take Educational Opportunity Away in N.C. Campus Progress: Righting Past Wrongs New Zealand Herald: 100,000 Jobs May Go as GM Falls The Observer (UK): President's GM Aid Plan Under Fire San Diego Union-Tribune: Foreclosures Increasing for Prime Loans MarketWatch: Ill and on the Job Christian Science Monitor: Why the IMF Should Lighten Up on the World’s Poorest Nations Inter Press Service: NGOs Oppose Nearly 100-Billion-Dollar Pledge to IMF MarketWatch: Geithner Goes to Beijing to Manage Bad Marriage Portside With Burt Cohen (WSCA FM): 3rd World Economy and $108 Billion for IMF Mother Jones: The Banking Crisis Revisited CNN Money: When it Makes Sense to Rent The Nation: The Greatest Swindle Ever Sold PBS Nightly Business Report: Reviving the Economy: Signs of Stimulus? The Financial: New Funds for IMF Approved by U.S. Senate Would Worsen Global Economic Downturn, Economists Say New York Times: U.S. Jobless Rate May Soon Top Europe’s Financial Times: U.S. Health Reforms Focus on Cost Control Politico: Alan Grayson to Introduce Paid Vacation Act Daily Record (NJ): Doc: We All Need to Take Time Off Huffington Post: Rosa DeLauro: Swine Flu "Looming Large" Behind Sick Leave Bill Detroit Metro Times: Two Steps Left Inter Press Service: Banks in Recovery as Home Foreclosures Hit Record Huffington Post: Paid Vacation Bill Goes To The Hill Uprising Radio: New Efforts to Expand American Vacation and Sick Leave Huffington Post: U.S. Sick Leave Policy Makes Nation More Vulnerable To Swine Flu FOX Business: TARP's Evolving Legacy Boston Globe: Geithner Gains Currency The Real News Network: Borrowing Into Submission? Charleston Gazette: Study Shows Workers Gain From Unionization Plain Dealer (OH): How About a Bailout for Social Security? New York Times: Bill Would Guarantee Up to 7 Paid Sick Days Inter Press Service: IMF Using Global Crisis to "Re-Launch" Itself Mother Jones: Next Up: The Battle Over Wall Street Reform Buffalo News: U.S. Plan is to fix, not Run, Companies
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Job Losses Slow in April, but the Toll is Still Heavy American Prospect: A Stalled Counterrevolution New York Times: U.S. Jobless Rate Hits 8.9%, but Pace of Losses Eases Huffington Post: Timothy Geithner's Bailout Dollar Recycling May Be Illegal PBS NewsHour: 'Stress Tests' Put Credibility of Banks, Regulators Back in Spotlight Marketplace (American Public Media): Let Some Big Banks Fail! CNBC: Should Government Fire Bank CEOs? The Young Turks: Dean Baker Discusses the Financial Crisis Huffington Post: Foreclosure: In The Midst Of Crisis, No Reliable Data Huffington Post: Six Steps To Dis-Empowering Wall Street The Hill: Bernanke Confident Ahead of Stress Tests CNBC: Stress Test Results Won't End The Uncertainty Over Banks Huffington Post: Creditors May Have Pushed For Chrysler Bankruptcy To Rake In Bailout Cash Lancaster Eagle-Gazette (PA): Dreams of a Multi-Polar World? Be Careful What You Wish For Indianapolis Star: Plunder and Blunder Roll Call: EFCA is a Priority for Many Civil Rights Leaders The Australian: The Monthly's Success Up to Me: Magazine Publisher Washington Post: U.S. in Control: Its Goal to Fix, Not Run Firms The Observer (Uganda): It’s Time for Home-Grown Policies Alternet: We Need to Make Good Jobs Out of "Green Jobs" NPR: Thoroughly Modern Marx Savannah Morning News (GA): Savannah's Housing Not Affordable for Many, Study Shows CNBC: Optimism About US Economy May Be Wishful Thinking: Panel The Progressive: The Meaning of Arlen Specter's Party Switch The Observer (UK): Can the IMF Now Feed the World? The Telegraph (UK): US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner Says He is "Encouraged" by Slowdown in Recession Daytona Beach News-Journal: Renters Find Affordable Housing Scarce Columbus Dispatch (OH): Avoiding Cuts at All Costs Marketplace (American Public Media): Scrutinizing the Role of the IMF The Post (Zambia): ‘IMF still prescribing harmful policies’ Inter Press Service: Struggle to Solve Crisis Moves to IMF, World Bank Washington Times: IMF Eases Limits on Loans BBC: The International Monetary Fund Returns San Diego Union-Tribune: Default Notices Hit Record in County Peninsula Clarion (AK): Labor, Business Spar Over Free Choice Act News & Observer (NC): House Panel Airs Bad Loans Bill Politico: Arena: Climate Change Legislation? Deutsche Presse-Agentur: IMF Set for Huge Expansion as World Finance Ministers Meet Politico: Before King, Obama's Base was Laid The Morning Show (KPFA, 94.1 FM CA): April 22, 2009 VOA: IMF Enters Spring Meetings Full of G20 Cash Politico: Arena: Is This a Good or Bad Year for Immigration Reform? CNN Money: Worst-Case Scenario Survival Guide Financial Times: US Cannot Rely on Inventory Cycle to Lead Way to Recovery Between the Lines: Obstacles Stand in Way of Thaw in U.S. - Cuban and Venezuelan Relations Asheville Citizen-Times (NC): Study: Rental Housing Is ‘Out of Reach' for Many Louisville Courier-Journal (KY): Renters Struggling in Tough Economy Dallas Morning News: Sure You Want to Be a Homeowner? Minnesota Public Radio: Obama Voices Cautious Optimism on the Economy Xinhua: Port of Spain Braces for Americas Summit Foster's Daily Democrat (NH): Report: Home Foreclosures Put Pressure on Availability of Affordable Rental Units Salon.com: The Prophets of Doom CQ Politics: Time to Re-read the Economic Tea Leaves Politico: Arena: Is Obama a Polarizing President? The Diane Rehm Show (NPR): State of the U.S. Economy Politico: Arena: One Change in the American Tax System Metro Times (MI): Hard Times The Progressive: Obama's Speech on the Economy Falls Flat CNBC: Abolishing the Income Tax? Forbes: U.S. Cities Where It's Hardest To Get By Connecticut Post: Rents Unaffordable, Especially in Fairfield County Time Magazine: Goldman's Profits: Gambling with Taxpayer Money? CNBC: Affordability Not Improving for Renters Nationwide St. Petersburg Times (FL): Cuba Likely to Dominate Obama's Attention at Summit of the Americas Daily News (CA): Roommates Become a Necessity for Some The Hour (CT): Stamford-Norwalk Region Most Expensive for Renters in Country Politico: Arena: The Administration's Policy Shift on Cuba: Too Far, Too Little, Just Right? Democracy Now!: Noam Chomsky on the Global Economic Crisis, Health Care, US Foreign Policy and Resistance to American Empire Talk of the Nation (NPR): Bailout Bonds: Should Small Investors Buy In? Wisconsin State Journal: Jobless Spike Should Scare Obama Uprising Radio (KPFK, 90.7 FM L.A.): Is Social Security Under Threat Again? Work with Marty Nemko (KALW, CA): Will Obamanomics Work? Los Angeles Times: HUD's Dollar Homes Falls Short of Mission UPI: HUD Program Benefits Investors, Others San Francisco Chronicle: Economists Split Over Timing of Recovery Wall Street Journal: Obama for Change (In Your Mortgage) Beverly Hills Times: Tax The Speculators Laura Flanders Show (Grit TV): Inland Empire: Warehouse Workers Organize in California San Francisco Chronicle: Why Workers Need the Employee Free Choice Act Politico: Arena: On the Conservative Critique of Obama's European Visit Houston Chronicle: Unionization Substantially Raises Wages of Pennsylvania Service-Sector Workers Business Standard (India): The Perfidious Myths of Free Trade Huffington Post: Geithner Bank Plan Faces New Wave Of Criticism The Brian Lehrer Show (WNYC, 93.9 FM): Road to Recovery? Huffington Post: How Unions' Grass-Roots Organizing, Pragmatism Can Pass Pro-Labor Bill Politico: Arena: Grade the President's Trip CNBC: Breaking the Banks Salon.com: A Message War the Republicans Won Huffington Post: Whoops: Economic Forecast Wrong Within Weeks Associated Press: Some Business Make Layoffs the Last Option New Statesman (UK): How Global Influence Has Shifted The Day (CT): Better Wages, Benefits Will Come With Free Choice Act Sacremento Bee: Billionaire Buffett Benefits from Bailout He Promoted Newsday: Economic Bust Takes Wind out of Baby Boomers' Sails TNG Real Estate Radio Show (KTIE 590 AM, CA): Interview with David Rosnick New York Times: No End in Sight to Job Losses; 663,000 More Cut in March Congress Blog (The Hill): The Big Question: England vs. China Counterspin (FAIR): Mark Weisbrot on the G20 BBC: Martha Kearney's Week Seattle Times: Employee Free Choice Act is Overdue Mmegi (Botswana): IMF Policies Have Failed - Experts Washington Independent: Fannie, Freddie Quietly Lift Moratorium on Foreclosures Laura Flanders Show (Grit TV): Labor and Capital at the G-20, The Good Negro, and Have Anti-War Voices Gone Silent? Huffington Post: Bank Rescue 2.0: Treasury Could Dump Toxic Assets Online Huffington Post: GOP Budget Plan Assumes Americans Would Choose Higher Tax Rate Forum With Michael Krasny (KQED FM 88.5): Great Expectations -- The G20 Meeting Politico: Arena: On Obama in Europe Public Service Review: What Can Be Done to Avoid Protectionism in the Credit Crunch? |