Reports

Raising the Social Security Payroll Tax Cap: How Many Workers Would Pay More?

January 2013, Nicole Woo, Janelle Jones and John Schmitt

More Good Jobs

November 2012, Shawn Fremstad

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

November 2012, Dean Baker

Reducing Inequality and Insecurity: Rethinking Labor and Employment Policy for the 21st Century

November 2012, Eileen Appelbaum

The Problem with Structural Unemployment in the U.S.

October 2012, Dean Baker

Bad Jobs on the Rise

September 2012, John Schmitt and Janelle Jones

Small-Dollar Lending: Is There A Responsible Path Forward?

August 2012, Jim Campen

Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone?

July 2012, John Schmitt and Janelle Jones

Attacking the Treasury View, Again

June 2012, Dean Baker

States Could Save $1.7 Billion Per Year with Federal Financing of Work Sharing

May 2012, Dean Baker and Nicole Woo

First Time Underwater: The Impact of the First-Time Homebuyer Tax Credit

April 2012, Dean Baker

The Relationship Between Financial Transactions Costs and Economic Growth

March 2012, Dean Baker and Helene Jorgensen

Long-Term Hardship in the Labor Market

March 2012, John Schmitt and Janelle Jones

It's So Hard to Get Good Help

February 2012, Dean Baker

The Necessity of a Lower Dollar and the Route There

February 2012, Dean Baker

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

Macroeconomic Policy, Labor Market Institutions and Employment Outcomes

December 2011, Eileen Appelbaum

The Impact of Cutting Social Security Cost of Living Adjustments on the Living Standards of the Elderly

September 2011, Dean Baker and David Rosnick

Do Tax Cuts Boost the Economy?

September 2011, David Rosnick and Dean Baker

Talking About Poverty in a Jobs and Economy Framework

September 2011, Shawn Fremstad

When Numbers Don't Add Up: The Statistical Discrepancy in GDP Accounts

August 2011, David Rosnick and Dean Baker

Work Sharing: The Quick Route Back to Full Employment
June 2011, Dean Baker

7 Things You Need to Know About the National Debt, Deficits, and the Dollar
June 2011, Dean Baker and David Rosnick

Labor Market Policy in the Great Recession: Some Lessons from Denmark and Germany
May 2011, John Schmitt

High-Performance Work Practices and Sustainable Economic Growth
April 2011, Eileen Appelbaum, Jody Hoffer Gittell, Carrie Leana

The Wage and Employment Impact of Minimum-Wage Laws in Three Cities
March 22, 2011, John Schmitt and David Rosnick

The Potential Savings to Social Security from Means Testing
March 2011, Dean Baker and Hye Jin Rho

The Deficit-Reducing Potential of a Financial Speculation Tax
January 2011, Dean Baker

The Social Security Benefits of Sitting Senators
January 2011, Dean Baker and Kris Warner

Report And Recommendations Of The Citizens’ Commission On Jobs, Deficits And America’s Economic Future
November 2010, Jeff Madrick, Roger Hickey, Robert Borosage, Richard Eskow, Dean Baker, Robert Kuttner and Robert Pollin

The Impact of Income Distribution on the Length of Retirement
October 2010, Dean Baker and David Rosnick

The Myth of Expansionary Fiscal Austerity
October 2010, Dean Baker

Hard Work in the Public Sector
October 2010, Hye Jin Rho

Feel No Pain: Why a Deficit in Times of High Unemployment is Not a Burden
September 2010, Dean Baker

The Gains From Right to Rent in 2010
September 2010, Dean Baker and Hye Jin Rho

The Wage Penalty for State and Local Government Employees in New England
September 2010, Jeffrey Thompson and John Schmitt

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

Alternatives to Fiscal Austerity in Spain
July 2010, Mark Weisbrot and Juan Montecino

The Urgent Need for Job Creation
July 2010, John Schmitt and Tessa Conroy

The Impact of Social Security Cuts on Retiree Income
July 2010, Dean Baker and David Rosnick

The Adult Recession: Age-Adjusted Unemployment at Post-War Highs
July 2010, David Rosnick

The High Budgetary Cost of Incarceration
June 2010, John Schmitt, Kris Warner, and Sarika Gupta

The Wage Penalty for State and Local Government Employees
May 2010, John Schmitt

The Impact of the Housing Crash on the Wealth of the Baby Boom Cohorts
April 2010, Dean Baker and David Rosnick

Profits on Citigroup Stock: Can They Be the Basis for Financing Stimulus?
April 2010, Dean Baker

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

Latvia’s Recession: The Cost of Adjustment With An “Internal Devaluation”
February 2010, Mark Weisbrot and Rebecca Ray

Responses to Criticisms of Taxes on Financial Speculation
January 2010, Dean Baker

The Potential Revenue from Financial Transactions Taxes
December 2009, Dean Baker, Robert Pollin, Travis McArthur, and Matt Sherman

Public Investment, Industrial Policy and U.S. Economic Renewal
December 2009, Robert Pollin and Dean Baker

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

Economists' Letter in Support of a Financial Transactions Tax
December 2009

The Federal Reserve Must Counteract Asset Bubbles
November 2009, Dean Baker, Jane D'Arista, and Gerald Epstein

Issues in Trade and Protectionism
November 2009, Dean Baker

Job Sharing: Tax Credits to Prevent Layoffs and Stimulate Employment
October 2009, Dean Baker

More Budget Belt-Tightening Means More Job Losses for States
September 2009, Matt Sherman

Cut Loose: State and Local Layoffs of Public Employees in the Current Recession
September 2009, Matt Sherman and Nathan Lane

The IMF’s Stand-by Arrangements and the Economic Downturn in Eastern Europe: The Cases of Hungary, Latvia, and Ukraine
September 2009, Jose Antonio Cordero

CBO Projects More Severe Downturn
August 2009, Dean Baker

Hitting Bottom? An Updated Analysis of Rents and the Price of Housing in 100 Metropolitan Areas
August 2009, Danilo Pelletiere, Hye Jin Rho, and Dean Baker

The Gains from Right to Rent
July 2009, Dean Baker and Hye Jin Rho

The Right to Rent Plan
July 2009, Dean Baker [updated June 2011]

The Rise and Fall of the American Residential Equity Empire
July 2009, David Rosnick

The Alphabet Soup Explained: An Analysis of the Special Lending Facilities at the Federal Reserve
July 2009, Matt Sherman

Costa Rica During the Global Recession: Fiscal Stimulus with Tight Monetary Policy
July 2009, Jose Antonio Cordero

A Short History of Financial Deregulation in the United States
July 2009, Matthew Sherman

U.S. Unemployment Now As High as Europe
May 2009, John Schmitt, Hye Jin Rho, and Shawn Fremstad

The State and Local Drag on the Stimulus
May 2009, Dean Baker and Rivka Deutsch

Troubled Assets: The IMF's Latest Projections for Economic Growth in the Western Hemisphere
April 2009, David Rosnick

Empowering the IMF: Should Reform be a Requirement for Increasing the Fund’s Resources?
April 2009, Mark Weisbrot, Jose Cordero and Luis Sandoval

Workplace Innovation and Labor Policy Leadership: A Challenge to Business, Labor, and Government
April 2009, Thomas A. Kochan, Eileen Appelbaum, Jody Hoffer Gittell, Carrie Leana, and Richard A. Gephardt

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

Pay for Play? Tax Credits for Paid Time Off
March 2009, Dean Baker

The AIG Saga: A Brief Primer
March 2009, Dean Baker

Is the U.S. Unemployment Rate Today Already as High as It Was in 1982?
March 2009, John Schmitt and Dean Baker

The Housing Crash Recession and the Case for a Third Stimulus
March 2009, Dean Baker

Investment Bank Welfare?
March 2009, Dean Baker and Matt Sherman

Bringing Home the Green Recovery: A User's Guide to the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
March 2009, Shawn Fremstad, Radhika Fox and Jason Walsh

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

The Tax Provisions in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
February 2009, Shawn Fremstad

Republicans Mount Mini-Criticisms of Stimulus in the Media
February 2009, Matthew Sherman

Summary of Tax Provisions in Economic Recovery Legislation
January 2009, Shawn Fremstad

Leave No Child Behind
January 2009, Shawn Fremstad

Spending Versus Tax Cuts: Who Pays the Cost of Political Compromise?
January 2009, Dean Baker

Will Workers Survive State Budget Belt-Tightening?
December 2008, Matthew Sherman

The Benefits of a Financial Transactions Tax
December 2008, Dean Baker

The Key to Stabilizing House Prices: Bring Them Down
December 2008, Dean Baker

Economists' Letter to Congress in Support of a New Economic Stimulus Package
November 2008

The Changing Prospects for Building Home Equity: An Updated Analysis of Rents and the Price of Housing in 100 Metropolitan Areas
October 2008, Hye Jin Rho, Danilo Pelletiere, and Dean Baker

Slow-Motion Recession: What Congress Can Do to Help
July 2008, Eileen Appelbaum, Dean Baker and John Schmitt

The Impact of the Housing Crash on Family Wealth
July 2008, Dean Baker and David Rosnick

The Housing Bubble and the Financial Crisis
May 2008, Dean Baker

Subprime Rescue Plans: Backdoor Bank Bailouts
March 2008, Dean Baker

Subprime Borrowers Deserve an Own to Rent Transition
January 2008, Dean Baker