CEPR examines how the federal budget and fluctuation in taxes affect wages, housing, health care and economic well-being.  Also see our IOUSA Not OK issue page more analysis of the federal budget deficit.

Reports

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.)

Op-Eds & Columns

Tax Plan Attacked by Big Business
Eileen Appelbaum
Economic Intelligence (U.S. News & World Report), May 15, 2012

Deficit Reduction: The Great Distraction
Dean Baker
Truthout, May 14, 2012

The Human Disaster of Unemployment
Dean Baker and Kevin Hassett
The New York Times, May 12, 2012

Everyone Agrees That the Decline in Private-Sector Pay Has Been Understated
Dean Baker
The Huffington Post, May 2, 2012

Budget Bunk: The Old Pox on Both Your Houses Game
Dean Baker
Truthout, April 30, 2012

Events

Tax Equity: Paying Fair

Need or Greed: Who's Responsible for the Global Economic Collapse?

Rebuilding the Middle Class

Looking Ahead: State Leaders, National Experts Separate Fact From Fiction on Public Pensions

The Occupied Super Committee Hearing of the 99%

The Financial Crisis: Why We Occupy

'Robin Hood' March and Teach-In for #OccupyDC

In Defense of the Social Safety Net

Briefing On Financial Transaction Taxes

Money Makes The World Go Around

Press Releases

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

New Calculator Shows Long-Run Deficit is Entirely Due to Health Care Costs
April 5, 2012

Senator Harkin and Representative DeFazio Introduce Financial Transactions Tax Proposal
November 2, 2011

Do Tax Cuts Boost the Economy?
September 13, 2011

Work Sharing Should be Part of the President's Job Program
September 7, 2011

Testimony

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

Other Resources