Reports

Reducing Waste With an Efficient Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit

February 2013, Dean Baker

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

January 2013, Nicole Woo, Janelle Jones and John Schmitt

The Chained CPI: A Painful Cut in Social Security Benefits and a Stealth Tax Hike

December 2012, Alan Barber and Nicole Woo

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

November 2012, Dean Baker

Attacking the Treasury View, Again

June 2012, Dean Baker

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

April 2012, Dean Baker

The Impact on Inequality of Raising the Social Security Retirement Age

April 2012, David Rosnick and Dean Baker

The Relationship Between Financial Transactions Costs and Economic Growth

March 2012, Dean Baker and Helene Jorgensen

The Necessity of a Lower Dollar and the Route There

February 2012, Dean Baker

Plan for a New Future: The Impact of Social Security Reform on People of Color

October 2011, Commission to Modernize Social Security (Maya M. Rockeymoore, Meizhu Lui, Nicole Woo, et. al.)

Who's Above the Social Security Payroll Tax Cap?

September 2011, Nicole Woo, Janelle Jones and John Schmitt

Do Tax Cuts Boost the Economy?

September 2011, David Rosnick and Dean Baker

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

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

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

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

Has the Congressional Budget Office Joined the Push for Cutting Social Security?
July 2010, Dean Baker

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

Social Security and the Age of Retirement
June 2010, David Rosnick

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

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

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

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

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

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

CBO Projects More Severe Downturn
August 2009, Dean Baker

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

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

The AIG Saga: A Brief Primer
March 2009, 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

Summary of Tax Provisions in Economic Recovery Legislation
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

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

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

The United States and the World: Where Are We Headed?
September 2008, Mark Weisbrot

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

The Economic Impact of the Iraq War and Higher Military Spending
May 2007, Dean Baker

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

Behind the Gap Between Productivity and Wage Growth
February 2007, Dean Baker

Recession Looms for the U.S. Economy in 2007
November 2006, Dean Baker

Increasing Inequality in the United States
November 2006, Dean Baker

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

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

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

Short-Term Gain for Long-Term Pain: The Real Story of Rubinomics
November 2005, Dean Baker

Taxing Exxon's Windfall From Hurricane Katrina
September 2005, Dean Baker

Clearing the Path to Unemployment Insurance for Low-Wage Workers
August 2005, Andrew Stettner, Heather Boushey and Jeff Wenger

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

Social Security Rates of Return with "Progressive Indexation"
May 2005, Dean Baker and David Rosnick

The Regressive Impact of the Progressive Indexation of Social Security Benefits
May 2005, Dean Baker

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

The Social Security Shortfall and the National Defense Shortfall
April 2005, Dean Baker

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

The Burden of Social Security Taxes and the Burden of Wage Inequality
March 2005, Dean Baker

Defaulting on the Social Security Trust Fund: What It Would Mean, and How It Would Be Done
March 2005, Dean Baker

Empty Promises: The Benefits to African American Men of Private Accounts Under President Bush's Social Security Plan
February 2005, Dean Baker

Growing the Social Security Crisis: The Social Security Administration's Poverty Rate Projections
January 2005, Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot

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

A House Divided: How Welfare Reform Pits Working Families Against the Nonworking Poor
Fall 2004, Heather Boushey

Too Much Bubbly at the Fed?
July 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

The Current Account Deficit and the Budget Deficit: Is $600 Billion Missing?
February 2004, Dean Baker

UI is Not a Safety Net for Unemployed Former Welfare Recipients
December 2003, Heather Boushey and Jeffrey B. Wenger

The Forty-Four Trillion Dollar Deficit Scare
September 2003, Dean Baker and David Rosnick

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

The Dividend Tax Break: Taxing Logic
January 2003, Dean Baker

The Stock Market Bubble and Investing Social Security in the Stock Market
July 2002, Dean Baker

Alan Greenspan and the ECB: Different Policies, Different Results
February 2002, Dean Baker

The Cost of the War on Terrorism and the Cost of Social Security
February 2002, Dean Baker

Stock Returns for Dummies
December 2001, Dean Baker

Defaulting on the Social Security Trust Fund Bonds: Winners and Losers
July 2001, Dean Baker

Effective Currency Transactions Taxes: The Need to Tax Derivatives
July 2001, Dean Baker

Is the Treasury Above the Law?
June 2001, Robert Naiman

Shameful Moments in Economics I: The Social Security Debate
June 1999, Dean Baker