CEPR examines how U.S. and international government policies affect economic growth, employment, prices, poverty and health.

Reports

Macroeconomic Policy Advice and the Article IV Consultations: A European Union Case Study

January 2013, Mark Weisbrot and Helene Jorgensen

More Good Jobs

November 2012, Shawn Fremstad

Debt, Deficits, and Demographics: Why We Can Afford the Social Contract

November 2012, Dean Baker

Married … Without Means

November 2012, Shawn Fremstad

Reducing Inequality and Insecurity: Rethinking Labor and Employment Policy for the 21st Century

November 2012, Eileen Appelbaum

Op-Eds & Columns

March Jobs Report Will End Talk of an Accelerating Recovery

Dean Baker
Politix, April 5, 2013

The London Whale, Cyprus and Washington

Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, March 25, 2013

Economists and Future Living Standards

Dean Baker
Al Jazeera English, March 18, 2013

Why We Need a Financial Speculation Tax

Mark Weisbrot
Kansas City Star (KS), March 14, 2013
McClatchy Tribune Information Services, March 14, 2013
Lexington Herald-Leader (KY), March 14, 2013
Bellingham Herald (WA), March 14, 2013
Eugene Register-Guard (OR), March 14, 2013
Hanover Evening Sun (PA), March 14, 2013
Bradenton Herald (FL), March 14, 2013
Anchorage Daily News (AK), March 14, 2013
Middletown Times Herald Record (NY), March 16, 2013
New Bedford Standard-Times (MA), March 16, 2013
Wapakoneta Daily News (OH), March 16, 2013
Times of India, March 17, 2013
Willimantic Chronicle (CT), March 17, 2013
Lawton Constitution (OK), March 17, 2013
Kokomo Tribune (IN), March 17, 2013
Gainesville Times (GA), March 17, 2013
Rome News-Tribune (GA), March 17, 2013
Salt Lake City Deseret News (UT), March 17, 2013
Centre Daily Times (PA), March 18, 2013
Keene Sentinel (NH), March 18, 2013
White River Valley News (VT), March 18, 2013
Youngstown Vindicator (OH), March 19, 2013
The Epoch Times, March 21, 2013

Big Bank Immunity: When Do We Crack Down on Wall Street?

Dean Baker
Truthout, March 11, 2013

Events

What Next for the Eurozone? Macroeconomic Policy and the Recession

The Great Recession: The Forces that Make it Great

Beyond Deficit Reduction: How Has the Macroeconomic Environment Changed?

The Downturn: How We Got Here and Why it Will Be Long

The Fiscal Cliff: New Heights of Sensationalism

Threats to Medicare: The Election and the Lame Duck Congress

Financial Transactions Taxes at Home and Abroad

Metrics of Recovery: Arizona and U.S. Housing Markets After the Bubble

Equality Matters: Tax Credits for Working Families

Debts and Deficits: Combating Recession in the U.S., Latin America, and Eurozone

Press Releases

Statement on the Financial Transaction Tax and Harkin-Defazio Bill

February 28, 2013

New Paper Finds that the IMF is Promoting Socially and Economically Harmful Policies Broadly Across Europe

January 28, 2013

More Than 200,000 Petition for Paul Krugman to Be Treasury Secretary

January 7, 2013

Chained CPI Cuts Social Security Benefits While Raising Taxes on the Middle Class

December 13, 2012

Married with Children, The Invisible Impoverished

November 8, 2012

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Latest Press Hits

• Unemployment Rate Dip Offers Little Reason to Celebrate
  CNBC , April 05, 2013


• Here We Go Again: Changing COLA to Cut Social Security?
  Philly.com, April 05, 2013


• Why Saving for a Rainy Day is Pointless -- For the Economy
  The Rundown (PBS Newshour), April 05, 2013


• The Ying Yang of Banking, Work, Wealth, and Health
  Nation of Change, April 04, 2013


• Abolish the Minimum Wage??!! A Debate
  Huffington Post, April 04, 2013