CEPR’s work encompasses a variety of personal finance issues, including personal savings, retirement, health insurance, real estate, student loans, taxes, and Social Security.

In Focus

Nobody Gets Rich On Their Own: Richard Posner Edition
September 27, 2011, Shawn Fremstad (CEPR Blog)

Talking About Poverty in a Jobs and Economy Framework
September 13, 2011, Shawn Fremstad

New Census Numbers Make it Official: 2000-2010 Was a Lost Economic Decade
September 13, 2011 (Poverty Byte)

Paid Sick Days: Doomsday Predictions Are Wrong
Eileen Appelbaum and Candace Howes
The Hartford Business Journal, May 2, 2011

Reports

The Impact on Inequality of Raising the Social Security Retirement Age
April 2012, David Rosnick and Dean Baker

Macroeconomic Policy, Labor Market Institutions and Employment Outcomes
December 2011, Eileen Appelbaum

Talking About Poverty in a Jobs and Economy Framework
September 2011, Shawn Fremstad

The Children’s Supplemental Security Income Program: A Review of Recent Research and Trends
August 2011, Shawn Fremstad and Rebecca Vallas

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

Blogs

Labor Market Policy Research Reports May 14 - 18, 2012

Labor Market Policy Research Reports, April 23 - 27, 2012

College Aid Not Keeping Pace with College Costs

CEPR News March 2012

Labor Market Policy Research Reports, March 12-16, 2012

Op-Eds & Columns

Mitt Romney's Partner in Crime: Ed Conard's Unintended Consequences
Dean Baker
The Huffington Post, May 2, 2012

Citigroup's Shareholders Stand Up for the 99.9 Percent
Eileen Appelbaum
Economic Intelligence (U.S. News & World Report), April 20, 2012

Will Romney Lie His Way to the White House?
Dean Baker
Truthout, January 9, 2012

Secret of the Flat Tax: Middle Class Pays More So Rich Pay Less
Dean Baker
Debate Club (U.S. News & World Report), November 1, 2011

Argentina's Economic Success is Key to Presidential Election
Mark Weisbrot
The Guardian Unlimited, October 22, 2011

Events

The Hunger Games and Real World Economic Injustice

99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality Is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do About It

Economic Mobility: What's the Problem and What to Do About It?

In Defense of the Social Safety Net

Jobs, Inequality, and the Public Sector: Improving the Economic Competitiveness and Innovative Capacity of the U.S.

Press Conference on Impact of Debt Reduction Plans to Social Safety Net Programs

Using Scanner Data to Answer Food Policy Questions Conference

Guy Standing and The Rise of the Precariat

Should the Disadvantaged Be Spared From the Budget Axe?

An Emergency Response to the Crisis of Poverty in America

Press Releases

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

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

Current Standard Fails to Accurately Assess Poverty
April 27, 2010

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

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

Other Resources