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May 19, 2009
The Science of Insolvency
CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker testified at this hearing held by the Subcommittee on Investigations & Oversight of the Committee on Science and Technology (House of Representatives), along with Simon Johnson, Jeffrey Sachs, and David John, on the issue of the solvency of the banking industry in the United States and bank bailouts. Watch the video.
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May 18, 2009
Blank Check or Real Reform?
Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director at CEPR joined Steve Clemons, Senior Fellow, New America Foundation; Amy Gray, Policy Analyst, Global Campaign for Education; and Neil Watkins, Executive Director, Jubilee USA Network at a congressional briefing to discuss what reforms are needed at the IMF make to ensure that funds channeled through the IMF will truly stimulate global economic growth and what impact will new loans have on low-income countries. |
May 18, 2009
Protecting America from Infectious Disease: U.S. Lags World in Paid Sick Days for Workers and Families
2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
HC-8, U.S. Capitol Building
Washington, DC
Recently the Centers for Disease Control advised people to stay home if they have flu symptoms in order to avoid infecting others in their communities. But the 60 million American workers who don't have paid sick time can't afford to give up their wages and possibly risk their jobs by staying home. While some may argue that providing paid sick days is too costly for employers, all of the most competitive economies in the world, except the U.S., provide paid sick time to their workers. To effectively control infectious diseases, can American afford NOT to do the same?
Dr. Jody Heymann, co-author of a CEPR paper on paid sick days in the U.S. and other developed countries, discussed this important issue at this CEPR briefing. Karen Minatelli of the National Partnership for Women and Families and Barbara Gault of the Institute for Women's Policy Research will also participated.
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May 16, 2009
2009 Michigan Policy Summit
CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker will be the keynote speaker at this year's Michigan Policy Summit.
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April 30, 2009
Dean Baker to Discuss his New Book
Sponsored by the Jamaica Plain Forum, CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker will be speaking at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Jamaica Plain (Boston) from 7 - 9 p.m. about his new book, Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy.
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April 27, 2009
After Tech Stocks and Housing, What's the Next Bubble?
CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker will be on this panel at the 2009 Annual Conference of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers in Denver, from 9 - 10:15 a.m.
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April 24, 2009
Safeguarding Development and Social Protection: Challenges for a New Global Financial Architecture
9:00 – 10:30 a.m.
World Bank "I" Building/Room I1-200
1850I Street, NW
The global financial crisis presents new challenges for safeguarding development and social protection, as steps taken to mend the struggling financial system – in both its regulation, institutional organization, and governance – have now been put forward at the G-20 Summit. This panel will address specifically the need for more transparent and democratic political processes to ensure that the new financial arrangements are accountable to the needs of people and not only of the financial system and its primary actors. The Friedrich Ebert Stiftung invites representatives of civil society to take the occasion of the spring meetings of the IMF and World Bank to discuss these urgent matters with Dean Baker, Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research; Sony Kapoor, Managing Director, Re-Define (Rethinking Development, Finance & Environment); and Damon Silvers, Associate General Counsel, AFL-CIO. This event is hosted by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung New York. To RSVP, please contact Sara Burke at
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April 22, 2009
Media Briefing: The IMF's Crisis Lending: Cuts in Social Spending Demanded for Poor Countries as G8 Plans Stimulus
As the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank prepare for their Spring Meetings in Washington, D.C. April 25-26th, the IMF has been calling for a global fiscal stimulus to counteract the world recession. But its actions tell a different story: in the loans it has made since October 2008 - when the crisis saved the IMF from near-irrelevance - the conditions continue to require contractionary measures that will intensify the impact of the recession on the most vulnerable people. Deficit reduction, interest rate hikes, and cuts in government spending are common to most of the programs - precisely the opposite of what the U.S. and other industrialized countries are doing to minimize the pain.
CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot joined Peter Bujari, executive director of the Human Development Trust in Tanzania and Inga Paparde, Latvian AIDS activist and journalist. The call was moderated by Joanne Carter, executive director RESULTS Educational Fund.
Transcript
A transcript is available on the RESULTS site. |
April 18, 2009
How to Cut the Roots of the Economic Crisis: A Discussion With Dean Baker
CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker will be talking about our deepening economic crisis and what can be done to resolve it, at 2 p.m. at De Paul University Art Museum, 2350 N. Kenmore Ave., Chicago IL 60614.
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April 16, 2009
New Thinking on the Economy
CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker was the keynote speaker at this event sponsored by the Center for Economic Progress in Chicago. Following Baker's remarks there was a panel discussion with elected
officials, including Illinois State Senator Dan Rutherford (R-Pontiac,
53rd District).
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