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

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

Op-Eds & Columns

Cutting Social Security and Not Taxing Wall Street

Dean Baker
Truthout, May 15, 2013

Destroying the Lair of the Budget-Balancing Cretins

Dean Baker

Al Jazeera English, May 13, 2013

Congress Should Put Down the Gun: End the Debt Ceiling

Dean Baker
The Exchange (Yahoo! Finance), May 10, 2013

Logic Deficit: Why Were Reinhart-Rogoff Ever Taken Seriously?

Dean Baker
Truthout, April 30, 2013

Obama's Slow-Motion Sequester Laid Basis for Sped-Up Version

Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, April 29, 2013

Events

The Safety Net, Sequestration and Austerity Politics

Cost-of-Living Adjustments and Federal Benefits: Understanding the Full Implications of Change

The Future of Social Security with Dean Baker

The Fiscal Cliff: New Heights of Sensationalism

Threats to Medicare: The Election and the Lame Duck Congress

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

Equality Matters: Tax Credits for Working Families

Tax Equity: Paying Fair

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

Rebuilding the Middle Class

Press Releases

Dean Baker Statement on the Chained CPI and the President's Budget

 April 5, 2013

Statement on the Financial Transaction Tax and Harkin-Defazio Bill

February 28, 2013

Armed With Powerful New Data, Progressive Groups Launch Grassroots Campaign to Enable Medicare Drug-Price Negotiations

February 14, 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

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

Latest Press Hits

• Cómo los promotores de austeridad responden a las críticas
  Sur y Sur, May 17, 2013


• Is A Smaller Budget Deficit A Lasting Trend?
  Morning Edition (National Public Radio), May 15, 2013


• Despite Dramatic Deficit Reduction, Fox & Friends Promotes Harmful Austerity Measures
  Media Matters for America, May 15, 2013


• Deficit Shrinks Faster than Expected, Undermining ‘the Austerity Gang’
  MSNBC.com, May 15, 2013


• Nightly Business Report – Tuesday, May 14, 2013
  Nightly Business Report, May 14, 2013