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Reports

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

Bigger Than the Social Security Crisis: Wasteful Spending on Prescription Drugs
April 2005, Dean Baker

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Op-Eds & Columns

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

Bat Boy Lives! As Do Myths About Social Security
Mark Weisbrot
AlterNet, November 14, 2007

The Real Economic Crisis
Dean Baker and John Schmitt
The Guardian Unlimited, October 14, 2007

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Press Releases

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

CEPR Testifies Before the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security
June 16, 2005

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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)