Reports

Half in Ten: Why Taking Disability into Account is Essential to Reducing Income Poverty and Expanding Economic Inclusion
September 2009, Shawn Fremstad

The Wealth of the Baby Boom Cohorts After the Collapse of the Housing Bubble
February 2009, David Rosnick and Dean Baker

Testimony of Dean Baker Before the Senate Special Committee on Aging
February 25, 2009

Summary of Tax Provisions in Economic Recovery Legislation
January 2009, Shawn Fremstad

IOUSA Not OK: An Analysis of the Deficit Disaster Story in the Film IOUSA
October 2008, Dean Baker and David Rosnick

The Housing Crash and the Retirement Prospects of Late Baby Boomers
June 2008, Dean Baker and David Rosnick

Working Families and Economic Insecurity in the States: The Role of Job Quality and Work Supports
May 2008, Shawn Fremstad, Rebecca Ray and Hye Jin Rho

Universal Voluntary Accounts: A Step Towards Fixing the Retirement System
December 2006, Dean Baker

Things That Will Happen Before Social Security Faces a Shortfall
June 2005, Dean Baker

Social Security Rates of Return with "Progressive Indexation"
May 2005, Dean Baker and David Rosnick

The Regressive Impact of the Progressive Indexation of Social Security Benefits
May 2005, Dean Baker

Bigger Than the Social Security Crisis: Wasteful Spending on Prescription Drugs
April 2005, Dean Baker

The Social Security Shortfall and the National Defense Shortfall
April 2005, Dean Baker

Social Security: The Most Important Anti-Poverty Program for Children
March 29, 2005, Heather Boushey

The Burden of Social Security Taxes and the Burden of Excessive Health Care Costs
March 2005, Dean Baker and David Rosnick

Basic Facts on Social Security and Proposed Benefit Cuts/Privatization
March 2005, Dean Baker and David Rosnick

The Burden of Social Security Taxes and the Burden of Wage Inequality
March 2005, Dean Baker

Defaulting on the Social Security Trust Fund: What It Would Mean, and How It Would Be Done
March 2005, Dean Baker

Empty Promises: The Benefits to African American Men of Private Accounts Under President Bush's Social Security Plan
February 2005, Dean Baker

Growing the Social Security Crisis: The Social Security Administration's Poverty Rate Projections
January 2005, Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot

The No Economist/Policy Analyst Left Behind Test for Social Security
November 2004, Dean Baker

Defined Contributions from Workers, Guaranteed Benefits for Bankers: The World Bank's Approach to Social Security Reform
July 2002, Dean Baker and Debayani Kar

The Stock Market Bubble and Investing Social Security in the Stock Market
July 2002, Dean Baker

The Role of Social Security Privitization in Argentina's Economic Crisis
April 2002, Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot

The Cost of the War on Terrorism and the Cost of Social Security
February 2002, Dean Baker

Stock Returns for Dummies
December 2001, Dean Baker

The World Bank's Attack on Social Security
August 2001, Dean Baker

Defaulting on the Social Security Trust Fund Bonds: Winners and Losers
July 2001, Dean Baker

Diverting the Old Age Crisis: International Projections of Living Standards in the 21st Century
July 2000, Dean Baker

Shameful Moments in Economics I: The Social Security Debate
June 1999, Dean Baker