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Reports

The Housing Crash and the Retirement Prospects of Late Baby Boomers
June 2008, Dean Baker and David Rosnick

Universal Voluntary Accounts: A Step Towards Fixing the Retirement System
December 2006, Dean Baker

Things That Will Happen Before Social Security Faces a Shortfall
June 2005, Dean Baker

Social Security Rates of Return with "Progressive Indexation"
May 2005, Dean Baker and David Rosnick

The Regressive Impact of the Progressive Indexation of Social Security Benefits
May 2005, Dean Baker

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Op-Eds & Columns

Vicious Ideologue Renews Attack on Social Security
Dean Baker
Truthout, July 21, 2008

McCain's "Knowledge Gap": It's An Issue
Mark Weisbrot
AlterNet, July 11, 2008

Media Needs to Take More Responsibility With Regard to False Information
Mark Weisbrot
AlterNet, March 12, 2008

Victories on the Left
Dean Baker
Truthout, December 3, 2007

The Crisis That Isn't
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, November 19, 2007

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Press Releases

Baby Boomers Face Massive Loss of Retirement Wealth Due to Housing Market Meltdown
June 24, 2008

Millions of Low-Income Families Who Need Medicaid and SCHIP Are Ineligible for Benefits
September 25, 2007

Social Security Trustees Assumptions Still More Pessimistic than CBO
April 23, 2007 (Social Security Byte)

New Book Explains Right Turn in US Politics Since 1980
April 3, 2007

Drug Companies Making Billions in Excess Profits Under Medicare Plan
August 15, 2006

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Other Resources

CEPR Economics Seminar Series:
Basic Economics for Policy Analysis and Self Defense
Audio and video files of ten CEPR lectures on economic issues

Social Security

Social Social: The Phony Crisis
by Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot
(2001)

Mark Weisbrot's Column

Dean Baker's TPM Cafe Blog 

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