CEPR's ongoing coverage of the economic crisis the United States is facing, in large part due to the collapse of the housing bubble.

In Focus

Financial Speculation Taxes (a.k.a. Financial Transacations Taxes)

Work Sharing

Right To Rent

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

Op-Eds & Columns

March Jobs Report Will End Talk of an Accelerating Recovery

Dean Baker
Politix, April 5, 2013

The Attack on Social Security and Disability: Profiting From Mistakes

Dean Baker
The Exchange (Yahoo! Finance), April 4, 2013

Profit Shares Hit New Highs, Washington Focuses on Disability

Dean Baker
Truthout, April 1, 2013

Reducing Unemployment: Lessons from Germany

Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, April 1, 2013

The London Whale, Cyprus and Washington

Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, March 25, 2013

Events

The Great Recession: The Forces that Make it Great

Equity and the Future of the American Economy

The Downturn: How We Got Here and Why it Will Be Long

The Fiscal Cliff: New Heights of Sensationalism

Community Cinema Screening of 'As Goes Janesville'

Threats to Medicare: The Election and the Lame Duck Congress

Financial Reform Summit III: "From Dodd-Frank to Occupy and Everything In Between"

Metrics of Recovery: Arizona and U.S. Housing Markets After the Bubble

After Austerity

Debts and Deficits: Combating Recession in the U.S., Latin America, and Eurozone

Press Releases

Statement on the Financial Transaction Tax and Harkin-Defazio Bill

February 28, 2013

The Effects of Raising the Social Security Payroll Tax Cap

January 24, 2013

More Than 200,000 Petition for Paul Krugman to Be Treasury Secretary

January 7, 2013

Share of Bad Jobs Has Risen Since 1979

September 5, 2012

The Small-Dollar Loan Problem

August 29, 2012

Testimony

Testimony Before the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade on "Where the Jobs Are: Employment Trends and Analysis"
February 15, 2012, House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade

No Need to Talk About Taking an Ax to Safety Net for the Poor
December 16, 2010, Dean Baker's Comments at Brookings Institution Forum

Work-Sharing: An Effective Tool Against Chronic Unemployment
March 17, 2010, Testimony of Dean Baker before the Congressional Black Caucus

The Failures of TARP
November 19, 2009, Testimony of Dean Baker Before the Congressional Oversight Panel for the Troubled Asset Relief Program

Latest Press Hits

• Unemployment Rate Dip Offers Little Reason to Celebrate
  CNBC , April 05, 2013


• Why Saving for a Rainy Day is Pointless -- For the Economy
  The Rundown (PBS Newshour), April 05, 2013


• Looting of America
  RT, April 05, 2013


• The Ying Yang of Banking, Work, Wealth, and Health
  Nation of Change, April 04, 2013


• Hinter dem US-Arbeitsmarkt bleibt ein großes Fragezeichen
  Wall Street Journal (German), April 04, 2013