1. CEPR Paper on Ecuador’s Financial Reforms Helps Explain Why Voters Likely to Re-Elect Correa
(Matching tags: election, stimulus, taxes, ecuador, financial reform)

On Sunday Ecuadorians will head to the polls to vote for a president and vice president, members of the National Assembly, mayors, and other elected officials. As we’ve done ahead of other elections in ...

2. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was a Missed Opportunity
(Matching tags: economy, recession, housing bubble, stimulus, recovery)

... an argument made by Michael Grunwald, in his new book "The New, New Deal." As has often been said of Barack Obama’s supporters, Michael Grunwald has drunk the Kool-Aid. While the stimulus certainly ...

3. CEPR in the News April 2012
(Matching tags: imf, world bank, cholera, economy, housing, Haiti, Social Security, stimulus, austerity, low-wage workers, Latvia)

The following highlights CEPR's latest research, publications, events and much more. CEPR on Low-Wage Workers A recent CEPR paper on the low-wage labor force finds that the average low-wage worker today ...

4. Austerity, the Path to Prosperity?
(Matching tags: economy, unemployment, spending, stimulus, austerity, budget, deficit)

Rep. Paul Ryan sat down with Steve Forbes recently to have a "very serious" conversation about the U.S. economy. The architect of the House budget plan, Ryan stated in the interview that what America needs ...

5. Mr. Arithmetic Meets Mitt Romney and His Budget Cutters
(Matching tags: stimulus, budget, deficit)

It seems that Mitt Romney and his team are revving up for another big battle over the stimulus. They want to tell the story that the economy would be off to the races if only President Obama had not tried ...

6. What Political Compromises Could Create Jobs?
(Matching tags: jobs, unemployment, work sharing, right to rent, stimulus)

... would be a large stimulus program. Since Congress is not willing, here are some policies that President Obama could pursue on his own to reduce unemployment. 1. Work sharing This one should be a simple ...