Press Releases

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

 April 5, 2013

Statement on the Financial Transaction Tax and Harkin-Defazio Bill

February 28, 2013

Armed With Powerful New Data, Progressive Groups Launch Grassroots Campaign to Enable Medicare Drug-Price Negotiations

February 14, 2013

The Effects of Raising the Social Security Payroll Tax Cap

January 24, 2013

More Than 200,000 Petition for Paul Krugman to Be Treasury Secretary

January 7, 2013

Who is Above the Social Security Payroll Tax Cap

May 31, 2012

Proposals Raising the Normal Retirement Age for Social Security Would Lead to Increase in Inequality
April 11, 2012

New Calculator Shows Long-Run Deficit is Entirely Due to Health Care Costs
April 5, 2012

Senator Harkin and Representative DeFazio Introduce Financial Transactions Tax Proposal
November 2, 2011

Do Tax Cuts Boost the Economy?
September 13, 2011

Work Sharing Should be Part of the President's Job Program
September 7, 2011

Statement on the S&P Downgrade
August 8, 2011

Statement on the Debt Ceiling Deal
August 1, 2011

Statement on the Gang of Six Plan
July, 19, 2011

Statement on Using the Chained CPI for Social Security Cost of Living Adjustments
July 8, 2011

Statement on Latest CBO Projections
June 22, 2011

Debt, Deficits, and the Dollar: 7 Key Facts
June 16, 2011

Statement on the President's Deficit Reduction Plan
April 13, 2011

Ryan Proposal Will Lead to Large Rise in Health Care Costs for Seniors
April 6, 2011

Is Means Testing an Effective Way to Reduce the Cost of Social Security?
March 8, 2011

Online Calculator Estimates Retirement Income, Showing Importance of Social Security
January 26, 2011

Financial Speculation Tax Serious Tool for Long-Term Deficit Reduction
January 24, 2011

Senators Will Receive Social Security Benefits for Years to Come, Just like Everyone Else
January 5, 2011

Statement by Dean Baker on the Final Meeting of The President's Fiscal Commission
December 3, 2010

Statement from Dean Baker on President Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform
November 30, 2010

Report Warns Austerity Will Block Recovery, Risk Recession. Launches Campaign on Real Causes of Deficit
November 30, 2010

Statement on Deficit Commission Proposals
November 10, 2010

New Report: Increase in Retirement Age Disproportionately Hurts Workers at the Bottom
October 28, 2010

Given Current Economic Conditions, Fiscal Austerity not a Viable Path to U.S. Recovery
October 20, 2010

New Report Demonstrates That in Times of High Unemployment and Lost GDP, Deficits Not a Burden

September 28, 2010

Seven Key Facts About Social Security and the Federal Budget
September 1, 2010

The Push for Social Security Cuts Ignores the Reality of the Program's Finances and Conditions of Near-Retirees
August 12, 2010

Proposals to Cut Social Security Benefits will Significantly Impact Retirement Income for Low-and Middle-Class Retirees
July 13, 2010

Deficit Calculator Demonstrates Effect of Several Policy Options on Future U.S. Debt-to-GDP Ratio
June 29, 2010

Poll Finds AmericaSpeaks Participants Poorly Informed About the Deficit and Economy
June 28, 2010

Senate Ignores Fed's Threats, Passes Audit Amendment 96-0
May 11, 2010

Deficit Scaremongering Undermining Economic Recovery
February 16, 2010

Statement on The State of the Union Address
January 27, 2010

Financial Transactions Taxes Would Raise Billions in Revenue
December 21, 2009

Will the Senate Health Care Bill Give Some Employers a Free Ride?
December 17, 2009

Private Health Care Costs Driving Force Behind Debt Burden
December 10, 2009

Economists in Support of a Financial Transactions Tax
December 3, 2009

Role of Disabilities Ignored for Tens of Millions Experiencing Income Poverty
September 9, 2009

State Department Steps Against Honduran Coup Don't Go Far Enough
September 3, 2009

New CBO Numbers Paint Grim Picture of Economy
August 25, 2009

Future Budget Deficits Almost Entirely Due to Rising Private Sector Health Care Costs
August 12, 2009

U.S. Treasury Responds to CEPR's Cost Estimate for IMF Funding; CEPR Responds
June 15, 2009

State & Local Budget Shortfalls to Blunt Effect of ARRA
May 4, 2009

More Stimulus Needed to Slow Spiraling Unemployment and Deepening Recession
March 17, 2009

Greater Transparency Needed for Fed’s Special Lending Facilities
March 12, 2009

Unemployment Jumps to 8.1 Percent as Job Loss Accelerates
March 6, 2009 (Jobs Byte)

Ambitious Health Care Reform Can Lead to Lower Budget Deficits
March 5, 2009

CEPR Releases Summary of Tax and Benefit Provisions in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
February 2, 2009

State Government Spending Cuts Could Lead to Higher Unemployment
December 30, 2008

Leading Economists to Call for Broad and Comprehensive Recovery Package
November 18, 2008

CEPR Deficit Calculator Deflates IOUSA Scare Story
November 10, 2008

Sharpest Consumption Drop Since 1980 Pushes GDP Negative
October 30, 2008 (GDP Byte)

Inflation Levels Off in September
October 16, 2008 (Prices Byte)

Statement on the Need for Coordinated Stimulus
October 10, 2008

Are You Better Off in 2008 Than You Were in 2000?
September 25, 2008

Lower Health and Housing Inflation Leave Overall and Core CPI Flat in February
March 14, 2008 (Prices Byte)

Foreclosure Plans Benefit Banks, But Do Little for Homeowners
March 4, 2008

Statement: President Bush’s Stimulus Plan is a Positive Step in Confronting Crisis
January 18, 2008

Millions of Low-Income Families Who Need Medicaid and SCHIP Are Ineligible for Benefits
September 25, 2007

House Subcommittee Votes to Fully Fund Key Census Survey
June 13, 2007

Ratio of Mortgage Debt to Housing Value Hits New Record
June 7, 2007 (Housing Byte)

Bush Administration Abandons Plan to Eliminate Key Census Survey
May 31, 2007

Over 400 Researchers Urge Congess to Continue Funding Key Census Survey
May 24, 2007

New Book Explains Right Turn in US Politics Since 1980
April 3, 2007

Over 40 Million Jobs - 1 in 3 - Pay Low Wages
March 15, 2007

Weakening Housing Market Leads to Rising Debt Burdens
March 8, 2007 (Housing Byte)

President's Budget Cuts Funding for Key Census Survey
February 5, 2007

Congress Saves Key Census Survey from Chopping Block
January 30, 2007

U.S. Recession Looms in 2007
November 29, 2006

Election '06: What Will Change in the Economy?
November 8, 2006

Labor Department Undercounts Poor, Uninsured and Non-Employed
August 24, 2006

Economist's Book Uncovers "The Conservative Nanny State"
May 11, 2006

133 Organizations Sign Letter to Congress Opposing Elimination of Key Census Survey
April 4, 2006

Over 400 Economists and Social Scientists Urge Congress to Save Key Census Survey
March 2, 2006

Medicare Could Lower Drug Costs if It Negotiated Prices Directly With Drug Companies
January 18, 2006

CEPR Testifies Before the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security
June 16, 2005

Focus on Social Security Misses 9 Disturbing Trends
June 1, 2005

"Progressive" Social Security Benefit Cuts Would Fall Heaviest on Middle Class
May 2, 2005

CEPR Updates Social Security Calculator
April 20, 2005

A Misinformed Public: The Real Problem
Statement by Dean Baker, Mark Weisbrot, and David Rosnick, April 12, 2005

Mr. President, This is How the 21st Century Economy Works
Statement by Dean Baker, April 6, 2005

Projected Shortfalls from U.S. Defense Policy Dwarfs Social Security Shortfall
April 5, 2005

Health Care Costs Pose a Larger Economic Burden than Prospective Social Security Tax Hikes
March 24, 2005

Medicaid Subsidies Crucial to Working Mothers
March 16, 2005

Wage Inequality Poses a Larger Economic Burden Than Prospective Social Security Tax Hikes
March 14, 2005

Are They Advocating Default?
March 9, 2005

Inheritable Accounts to Be an Empty Promise for Many Black Men
February 9, 2005

Defaulting on Social Security Trust Fund Would Mean Massive Upward Transfer of Wealth
January 27, 2005

Study on Social Security Shortfalls Impact on Senior Poverty Flawed
January 18, 2005

Free Market Drug Act Promises Large Savings to State Governments
November 16, 2004

Bush Plan Cuts Social Security, Without Much "Ownership"
Statement by Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot
November 9, 2004

Social Security Misrepresented in Presidential Debate
Statement by Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot
October 14, 2004

CEPR Releases Report on Prescription Drug Research
September 22, 2004

Study Finds Solution to Deficit Woes Through Buying Into Foreign Health Programs
March 2004

Argentina’s President Kirchner Arrives Tonight for Meeting with President Bush
July 22, 2003

Comments Presented to the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security
August 14, 2001

Understanding the Social Security Trustees Report: Will Trustees Follow CBO on Growth Projections?
March 16, 2001

CEPR Releases Cost Projections for Bush and Gore Individual Account Proposals
July 17, 2000

CEPR Releases New Study of Bush Social Security Plan
June 14, 2000

Gov. Bush's Social Security Plan Relies on False Numbers
May 15, 2000

CEPR Proposes Speculation Tax for an Earlier Tax Freedom Day
April 2, 2000