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

Reports

The Human Capital Dimensions of Sustainable Investment: What Investment Analysts Need to Know

March 2013, Thomas Kochan, Eileen Appelbaum, Carrie Leana, and Jody Hoffer Gittell

Why Does the Minimum Wage Have No Discernible Effect on Employment?

February 2013, John Schmitt

Supplemental Security Income for Children with Disabilities

November 2012, Shawn Fremstad and Rebecca Vallas

More Good Jobs

November 2012, Shawn Fremstad

Married … Without Means

November 2012, Shawn Fremstad

Blogs

CEPR News, March 2013

Supplemental Security and Temporary Assistance: How "This American Life" Got the Story Wrong

Sorry Ira: There are Factual Errors in Your Story on Disability Insurance

Media Coverage of Poverty: Quality, Not Just Quantity, Matters

Carry On, Wayward Sons

Op-Eds & Columns

Profit Shares Hit New Highs, Washington Focuses on Disability

Dean Baker
Truthout, April 1, 2013

Tax Games and Redistributing Income Upward

Dean Baker
Truthout, February 4, 2013

Europe is Haunted by the Myth of the Lazy Mob

Ha-Joon Chang
The Guardian Unlimited, January 28, 2013

Leave Social Security Alone; It’s Irrelevant to the Deficit

Dean Baker
Room for Debate (The New York Times), January 2, 2013

The Fiscal Cliff Deal: Who Got Thrown Off?

Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, January 1, 2013

Events

Equity and the Future of the American Economy

Income Support for Children with Disabilities: Moving Towards Reforms That Work

Equality Matters: Tax Credits for Working Families

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

Press Releases

New Paper Finds Modest Minimum Wage Increases Have Little Impact on Employment

February 13, 2013

Married with Children, The Invisible Impoverished

November 8, 2012

The Small-Dollar Loan Problem

August 29, 2012

OECD Strikes Out in Explanation of the Causes of Inequality
July 12, 2012

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

Other Resources

Latest Press Hits

• 7 Chilling Facts About Retirement in America That Should Make Obama Tremble Before Cutting Social Security and Medicare
  Alternet, April 07, 2013


• Food Stamp Usage Up
  Kudlow Report (CNBC), March 28, 2013


• At Last, the Minimum Wage Debate Is Growing Up
  Huffington Post, March 27, 2013


• Am I Poor?
  Huffington Post Live, March 25, 2013


• Tell Your Senators to Defend Social Security and Medicare Today
  Huffington Post, March 22, 2013