1. CEPR News December 2012
(Matching tags: poverty, venezuela, inequality, Haiti, financial transaction tax, Fiscal Cliff)

The following highlights CEPR's latest research, publications, events and much more. CEPR on Haiti CEPR has been out in front calling for the United Nations to take responsibility for bringing cholera ...

2. Supplemental Security and Temporary Assistance: How "This American Life" Got the Story Wrong
(Matching tags: poverty, inequality, social insurance, disability)

In both her story on disability insurance and a Wonkblog interview, reporter Chana Joffe-Walt implies that lots of people are receiving Supplemental Security who don’t deserve the help, and that large ...

3. CEPR News, March 2013
(Matching tags: poverty, venezuela, retirement, inequality, paid sick days, Haiti, Social Security, medicare, Honduras, minimum wage, financial transactions tax)

The following highlights CEPR's latest research, publications, events and much more. CEPR on Venezuela CEPR marked the March 5th death of Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez with op-eds, blog posts and ...

4. Carry On, Wayward Sons
(Matching tags: labor market, inequality, education)

I got an email yesterday from Elaine Kamarck, resident scholar at Third Way. We don't know each other, but she wanted to let me know about a new Third Way study: Wayward Sons: The Emerging Gender Gap in ...

5. Third Way or Dead End? Autor-Wasserman's Hypothesis that Single Mothers Contribute to the College Gender Gap
(Matching tags: inequality, education)

In a report for Third Way, David Autor and Melanie Wasserman hypothesize that the decline in the share of children living with both their biological mother and biological father “may magnify ...

6. Relative Poverty Measures Can Help Paint a More Accurate picture of Poverty in 21st Century America
(Matching tags: poverty, inequality)

In his most recent column, Thomas Edsall says there are three ways of defining poverty in the United States: the official measure, the Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure, and a consumption-based ...

7. New CBO Estimates Show How Shifting to Chained CPI Would Harm Poorly Compensated Workers and Others Struggling to Afford the Basics
(Matching tags: poverty, retirement, inequality, Social Security, income, cost of living)

I wrote back in December about how the shift to a “chained” CPI would have negative impacts that go far beyond Social Security. On March 1, the Congressional Budget Office released a new estimate that ...

8. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, February 23 – March 8, 2013
(Matching tags: poverty, jobs, labor market, inequality, unemployment, paid sick days, women, employment)

The following is a collection of the latest labor market policy research reports: Center for Economic and Policy Research The Human Capital Dimensions of Sustainable Investment: What Investment Analysts ...

9. Venezuelan Economic and Social Performance Under Hugo Chávez, in Graphs
(Matching tags: poverty, venezuela, health, inequality, education, social services, Chavez, economic growth)

On Tuesday, Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez passed away after 14 years in office. Below is a series of graphs that illustrate the economic and social changes that have taken place in Venezuela during ...

10. Benchmarking the Minimum Wage
(Matching tags: inequality, minimum wage, cost of living)

In his State of the Union address, President Obama heartened many progressives with a call for raising the minimum wage to $9.00 (from its current $7.25), and then pegging its value to increases in ...