Reports

Employer Responsibility in Health Care Reform: Potential Effects on Low- and Moderate-Income Workers
September 2009, Shawn Fremstad

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

Workplace Innovation and Labor Policy Leadership: A Challenge to Business, Labor, and Government
April 2009, Thomas A. Kochan, Eileen Appelbaum, Jody Hoffer Gittell, Carrie Leana, and Richard A. Gephardt

Unions and Upward Mobility for Service-Sector Workers
April 2009, John Schmitt

Dropping the Ax: Illegal Firings During Union Election Campaigns, 1951-2007
March 2009, John Schmitt and Ben Zipperer

Testimony of Eileen Appelbaum before the House Committee on Education and Labor
March 3, 2009

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

Leave No Child Behind
January 2009, Shawn Fremstad

Measuring Poverty and Economic Inclusion
December 2008, Shawn Fremstad

The Changing Prospects for Building Home Equity: An Updated Analysis of Rents and the Price of Housing in 100 Metropolitan Areas
October 2008, Hye Jin Rho, Danilo Pelletiere, and Dean Baker

Oil Drilling in Environmentally Sensitive Areas: The Role of the Media
September 2008, Mark Weisbrot and Nichole Szembrot

Parental Leave Policies in 21 Countries: Assessing Generosity and Gender Equality
September 2008, Rebecca Ray, Janet C. Gornick and John Schmitt

Slow-Motion Recession: What Congress Can Do to Help
July 2008, Eileen Appelbaum, Dean Baker and John Schmitt

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

Turmoil in U.S. Credit Markets (Congressional Testimony)
April 10, 2008, Dean Baker

Movin’ On Up: Reforming America’s Social Contract to Provide a Bridge to the Middle Class
February 2008, Shawn Fremstad, Rebecca Ray, Liz Chimienti, and John Schmitt

The Need for an Economic Stimulus Package
January 2008, Eileen Appelbaum, Dean Baker and John Schmitt

Bridging the Gaps: A Picture of How Work Supports Work in Ten States
October 2007, Randy Albelda and Heather Boushey, with Elizabeth Chimienti, Rebecca Ray, and Ben Zipperer

The Paid Sick and Safe Days Act of 2007, Bill 17-0197 (Testimony)
July 9, 2007, Heather Boushey

Job Tenure and Firm Size Provisions Exclude Many Young Parents from Family and Medical Leave
June 2007, Heather Boushey and John Schmitt

No-Vacation Nation
May 2007, Rebecca Ray and John Schmitt

Strengthening the Middle Class: Ensuring Equal Pay for Women (Testimony)
April 24, 2007, Heather Boushey

Perspectives on Work/Family Balance (Testimony to the EEOC)
April 17, 2007 Heather Boushey

Understanding Low-Wage Work in the United States
March 2007, Heather Boushey, Shawn Fremstad, Rachel Gragg, Margy Waller

Celebrating Pork: The Dubious Success of the Medicare Drug Benefit
March 2007, Dean Baker

The Decline in African-American Representation in Unions and Manufacturing, 1979-2006
March 2007, John Schmitt and Ben Zipperer

2007 Housing Bubble Update: 10 Economic Indicators to Watch
February 2007, Dean Baker

Economic Security and Opportunity for Working Families (Testimony)
January 16, 2007, Eileen Appelbaum

Dropping the Ax: Illegal Firings During Union Election Campaigns
January 2007, John Schmitt and Ben Zipperer

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

Increasing Inequality in the United States
November 2006, Dean Baker

Book Review: "Selling Women Short"
October 2006, Heather Boushey

Tag-Team Parenting
August 2006, Heather Boushey

The Origins of the Doughnut Hole: Excess Profits on Prescription Drugs
August 2006, Dean Baker

Waste in the Medicare Drug Benefit: Why the Doughnut Hole is Unnecessary
July 2006, Dean Baker

Is the Housing Bubble Collapsing? 10 Economic Indicators to Watch
June 2006, Dean Baker

Analysis of NY 'Fair Share for Health Care' Bill
May 2006, John Schmitt

Missing Inaction: Evidence of Undercounting of Non-Workers in the Current Population Survey (CPS)
February 2006, John Schmitt and Dean Baker

The Savings from an Efficient Medicare Drug Plan
January 2006, Dean Baker

Impact of Proposed Minimum-Wage Increase on Low-income Families
December 2005, Heather Boushey and John Schmitt

Are Women Opting Out? Debunking the Myth
November 2005, Heather Boushey

How Good is the Economy at Creating Good Jobs?
October 2005, John Schmitt

Is There a Housing Bubble?
September 2005, Dean Baker and David Rosnick

Student Debt: Bigger and Bigger
September 2005, Heather Boushey

Are Copyrights a Textbook Scam? Alternatives for Financing Textbook Production in the 21st Century
September 2005, Dean Baker

Gender Bias in the Current Economic Recovery?: Declining Employment Rates for Women in the 21st Century
August 2005, Heather Boushey, David Rosnick, and Dean Baker

The Housing Bubble Fact Sheet
July 2005, Dean Baker

No Way Out: How Prime Age Workers Get Trapped in Minimum Wage Jobs
May 2005, Heather Boushey

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

Correcting Employment Rates in the 2000 Decennial Census Using Information from the CPS-Census 2000
May 2005, John Schmitt and Dean Baker

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

Finding the Better Fit: Receiving Unemployment Insurance Increases Likelihood of Re-employment with Health Insurance
April 23, 2005, (CEPR/EPI) Heather Boushey and Jeff Wenger

Family-Friendly Policies: Boosting Mothers' Wages
April 2005, Heather Boushey

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

When Done Right, Work Supports Work: Medicaid and Mothers' Employment and Wages
March 2005, Heather Boushey

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

Who's Dreaming? Homeownership Among Low Income Families
January 2005, Dean Baker

The Crisis in America's Housing: Confronting Myths and Promoting a Balanced Housing Policy
January 2005, Dushaw Hockett, Patrick McElwee, Danilo Pelletiere, and Diane Schwartz

A House Divided: How Welfare Reform Pits Working Families Against the Nonworking Poor
Fall 2004, Heather Boushey

Bad Times: The Impact of Changes in Work Schedules on Productivity Growth
November 2004, John Schmitt and Dean Baker

Recent Job Loss Hits the African-American Middle Class Hard
October 2004, John Schmitt

Dangerous Trends: The Growth of Debt in the U.S. Economy
September 2004, Dean Baker

Analysis of the Upcoming Release of 2003 Data on Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance
August 2004, Heather Boushey

Computer Assisted Exam Results
Summer 2004, John Schmitt and Jonathan Wadsworth

Plunging Employment: Blame Mom?
June 2004, Dean Baker and Heather Boushey

Working Moms and Child Care
May 2004, Heather Boushey and Joseph Wright, 

Health Insurance Data Briefs
April 2004, Heather Boushey, Joseph Wright, and Mayra Murray Díaz

For Welfare Reform to Work, Jobs Must Be Available
April 2004, Heather Boushey and David Rosnick

The Housing Bubble in New England
January 2004, Dean Baker

UI is Not a Safety Net for Unemployed Former Welfare Recipients
December 2003, Heather Boushey and Jeffrey B. Wenger

Jobs Held by Former Welfare Recipients Hit Hard by Economic Downturn
September 2003, Heather Boushey and David Rosnick

Child's Play? The Bush Administration’s Misuse of Data
August 2003, David Rosnick

Who Cares? The Child Care Choices of Working Mothers
May 2003, Heather Boushey

The Debt Explosion Among College Graduates
April 2003, Heather Boushey

Growing Pain: The Expense of Drugs for the Elderly
February 2003, Dean Baker and John Schmitt

Give Me a Break: The Extent of Paid Holidays and Vacation
September 2002, Helene Jorgensen