Reports

State Savings with an Efficient Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit

March 2013, Dean Baker and Nicole Woo

Reducing Waste With an Efficient Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit

February 2013, Dean Baker

Debt, Deficits, and Demographics: Why We Can Afford the Social Contract

November 2012, Dean Baker

Affording Health Care and Education on the Minimum Wage

March 2012, John Schmitt and Marie-Eve Augier

Health-insurance Coverage for Low-wage Workers, 1979-2010 and Beyond

February 2012, John Schmitt

Representative Ryan’s $30 Trillion Medicare Waste Tax
April 2011, David Rosnick and Dean Baker

The Scorecard on Development, 1960-2010: Closing the Gap?
April 2011, Mark Weisbrot and Rebecca Ray

The Ryan Medicare Plan: Winners and Losers
April 2011, Dean Baker and David Rosnick

Implementing the Coverage Provisions of Health Care Reform: What’s at Stake for Direct Care Workers
January 2011, Shawn Fremstad

More Men to Benefit From Expanded Coverage Under Healthcare Reform
June 2010, Heidi Hartmann, Ashley English, John Schmitt and Hye Jin Rho

Health-Insurance Coverage Rates for US Workers, 1979-2008
March 2010, Hye Jin Rho and John Schmitt

Reconciliation and Representation: The Share of the Population Represented by the Democratic Majority
March 2010, Sarika Gupta

The Budget Deficit Scare Story and the Great Recession
February 2010, Dean Baker

Free Ride: The Senate Health Bill’s Approach to “Employer Responsibility” Means Some Large Employers Get to Take It Easy
December 2009, Shawn Fremstad

Taming the Deficit: Saving Our Children from Themselves
December 2009, David Rosnick and Dean Baker

The $1 Trillion Wage Deficit
December 2009, John Schmitt and Dean Baker

Free Trade in Health Care: The Gains from Globalized Medicare and Medicaid
October 2009, Dean Baker and Hye Jin Rho

Employer Responsibility in Health Care Reform: Potential Effects on Low- and Moderate-Income Workers
September 2009, Shawn Fremstad

An International Comparison of Small Business Employment
August 2009, John Schmitt and Nathan Lane

Improving Direct Care Work: Integrating, Research and Practice
July 2009, Michele Ochsner, Carrie Leana and Eileen Appelbaum

Paid Sick Days Don't Cause Unemployment
June 2009, John Schmitt, Hye Jin Rho, Alison Earle, and Jody Heymann

Contagion Nation: A Comparison of Paid Sick Day Policies in 22 Countries
May 2009, Jody Heymann, Hye Jin Rho, John Schmitt, and Alison Earle

Using Recovery Act Funds to Improve Direct Care Jobs and the Quality of Direct Care Services
March 2009, Shawn Fremstad

The Wealth of the Baby Boom Cohorts After the Collapse of the Housing Bubble
February 2009, David Rosnick and Dean Baker

The Impact of the Medicare Drug Benefit on Health Care Spending by Older Households
December 2008, Dean Baker and Ben Zipperer

IOUSA Not OK: An Analysis of the Deficit Disaster Story in the Film IOUSA
October 2008, Dean Baker and David Rosnick

The Housing Crash and the Retirement Prospects of Late Baby Boomers
June 2008, Dean Baker and David Rosnick

Working Families and Economic Insecurity in the States: The Role of Job Quality and Work Supports
May 2008, Shawn Fremstad, Rebecca Ray and Hye Jin Rho

The Benefits and Savings of Publicly-Funded Clinical Trials of Prescription Drugs
March 2008, Dean Baker

Movin’ On Up: Reforming America’s Social Contract to Provide a Bridge to the Middle Class
February 2008, Shawn Fremstad, Rebecca Ray, Liz Chimienti, and John Schmitt

What We’re In For: Projected Economic Impact of the Next Recession
January 2008, John Schmitt and Dean Baker

Changes in the Cost of Medicare Prescription Drug Plans, 2007-2008
November 2007, Joshua Lanier and Dean Baker

Bridging the Gaps: A Picture of How Work Supports Work in Ten States
October 2007, Randy Albelda and Heather Boushey, with Elizabeth Chimienti, Rebecca Ray, and Ben Zipperer

Unions and Upward Mobility for Low-Wage Workers
August 2007, John Schmitt, Margy Waller, Shawn Fremstad and Ben Zipperer

Understanding Low-Wage Work in the United States
March 2007, Heather Boushey, Shawn Fremstad, Rachel Gragg, Margy Waller

Celebrating Pork: The Dubious Success of the Medicare Drug Benefit
March 2007, Dean Baker

Stagnation in the Drug Development Process: Are Patents the Problem?
March 2007, Dean Baker

Universal Voluntary Accounts: A Step Towards Fixing the Retirement System
December 2006, Dean Baker

Increasing Inequality in the United States
November 2006, Dean Baker

The Impact of Undercounting in the Current Population Survey
August 2006, John Schmitt and Dean Baker

The Origins of the Doughnut Hole: Excess Profits on Prescription Drugs
August 2006, Dean Baker

Is the U.S. a Good Model for Reducing Social Exclusion in Europe?
August 2006, John Schmitt and Ben Zipperer

Waste in the Medicare Drug Benefit: Why the Doughnut Hole is Unnecessary
July 2006, Dean Baker

Beyond the Conservative Nanny State: Policies to Promote Self-Sufficiency Among the Wealthy
July 2006, Dean Baker

Analysis of NY 'Fair Share for Health Care' Bill
May 2006, John Schmitt

The Savings from an Efficient Medicare Drug Plan
January 2006, Dean Baker

Bird Flu Fears: Is There a Better Way to Develop Drugs?
October 2005, Dean Baker

Scorecard on Development: 25 Years of Diminished Progress
September 2005, Mark Weisbrot, Dean Baker and David Rosnick

Things That Will Happen Before Social Security Faces a Shortfall
June 2005, Dean Baker

Bigger Than the Social Security Crisis: Wasteful Spending on Prescription Drugs
April 2005, Dean Baker

Finding the Better Fit: Receiving Unemployment Insurance Increases Likelihood of Re-employment with Health Insurance
April 23, 2005, (CEPR/EPI) Heather Boushey and Jeff Wenger

The Burden of Social Security Taxes and the Burden of Excessive Health Care Costs
March 2005, Dean Baker and David Rosnick

When Done Right, Work Supports Work: Medicaid and Mothers' Employment and Wages
March 2005, Heather Boushey

The Effects on Employment and Wages When Medicaid and Child Care Subsidies are No Longer Available
January 2005, Heather Boushey

The Benefits to State Governments from the Free Market Drug Act
November 2004, Dean Baker

Insuring the Uninsured: The Gains From Reducing Waste
September 2004, Dean Baker

Financing Drug Research: What Are the Issues?
September 2004, Dean Baker

Health Insurance Data Briefs
April 2004, Heather Boushey, Joseph Wright, and Mayra Murray Díaz

Medicare Choice Plus, the Answer to the Long-Term Deficit Problem
March 2004, Dean Baker

Still a Pain: The Cost of Prescription Drugs to Seniors With the Medicare Drug Benefit
December 2003, Dean Baker

The Real Budget and the Real Budget Deficit
August 2003, Dean Baker and David Rosnick

Is It Time to Export the US Tax Model to Latin America?
April 2003, John Schmitt

Growing Pain: The Expense of Drugs for the Elderly
February 2003, Dean Baker and John Schmitt

Promoting Good Ideas on Drugs: Are Patents the Best Way?
October 2002, Dean Baker and Noriko Chatani

The Scorecard on Globalization 1980-2000: 20 Years of Diminished Progress
July 2001, Mark Weisbrot, Dean Baker, Egor Kraev, Judy Chen

Vaccine Buying Pools: Is More Protectionism the Best Route?
May 2001, Dean Baker