1. Let’s Not Make a Deal
(Matching tags: Social Security, taxes, chained cpi)

... time raising income taxes on almost everyone.   This would be done by changing an official measure of inflation to a new index, called the Chained CPI.  As CEPR has shown, this change would ...

2. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, February 9 – 22, 2013
(Matching tags: immigration, labor market, inequality, unemployment, paid sick days, taxes, minimum wage, discrimination, small businesses, income taxes, in-home care)

... Pathways Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Cutting State Personal Income Taxes Won’t Help Small Businesses Create Jobs and May Harm State Economies Michael Mazerov Testimony of Chad Stone, ...

3. Tax Credit Expansions Don't Make Up for the Lower Minimum Wage Increase Proposed by President Obama
(Matching tags: inequality, taxes, minimum wage, low-wage work, pverty, tax credits)

The $9 minimum wage proposed in the SOTU is less than the $9.50 that Obama proposed during his first campaign. For a full-time worker, that's about $1,000 less per year. And, as Tim Noah has noted, if ...

4. 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 ...

5. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, January 26 – February 1, 2013
(Matching tags: labor market, paid sick days, taxes, SNAP, macroeconomics, nafta, low-income households)

Here is a collection of the latest labor market policy research reports from the past week: Center for Economic and Policy Research Macroeconomic Policy Advice and the Article IV Consultations: A ...

6. Fiscal Cliff Deal was a Raw Deal for Low-Income, Working-Class People
(Matching tags: economy, unemployment, taxes, Fiscal Cliff, EITC, low-income workers, Child Tax Credit)

In a fascinating recent post The Nation’s Greg Kaufman pulls together a range of responses from economic justice advocates and researchers (including me) on whether the fiscal cliff deal was a good one ...

7. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, December 8 – 14, 2012
(Matching tags: retirement, labor market, Social Security, taxes, right to work)

Here’s a roundup of labor market research reports released over the past week: Center for American Progress Michigan ‘Right-to-Work’ Bill Is the Wrong Economics for the Middle Class Adam Hersh, Heather ...

8. CEPR News September 2012
(Matching tags: venezuela, jobs, unions, taxes, canada, ecuador, 47 percent, Erskine Bowles, Federal Reserve)

The following highlights CEPR's latest research, publications, events and much more. CEPR on Jobs: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly CEPR followed its July 2012 paper, “Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone” ...

9. Labor Market Policy Research Reports August 11 – 17
(Matching tags: economy, jobs, labor market, taxes, minimum wage)

...  Economic Policy Institute Taxes and Executive Compensation Steven Balsam How Raising the Federal Minimum Wage Would Help Working Families and Give the Economy a Boost Dough Hall and David Cooper ...

10. Labor Market Policy Research Reports June 22 – 29, 2012
(Matching tags: poverty, economy, labor market, unemployment, taxes)

Here’s a roundup of labor market research reports released in the past week: Center for Economic and Policy Research: Attacking the Treasury View, Again Dean Baker Center on Budget and Policy Priorities ...