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CEPR identifies and tracks trends affecting American workers and their wages, benefits, and employment opportunities.

In Focus

Unions and Upward Mobility for Asian Pacific American Workers, Report, November 2009

The Changing Face of Labor, 1983-2008, Report, November 2009

Job Sharing: Tax Credits to Prevent Layoffs and Stimulate Employment, Issue Brief, October 2009

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

Dropping the Ax: Illegal Firings During Union Election Campaigns, 1951-2007
, Report, March 2009

Unions and Unemployment: The Battle Over the Employee Free Choice Act Gets Ugly, Op-ed, March 13, 2009

Unions: Ensuring Social Justice for African Americans, Op-ed, April 2, 2008

The Benefits of Unionization: A series of reports produced by CEPR senior economist John Schmitt on the advantages of unionization for lower-wage workers and other groups.

Reports

The Unions of the States
February 2010, John Schmitt

Public Investment, Industrial Policy and U.S. Economic Renewal
December 2009, Robert Pollin and Dean Baker

The $1 Trillion Wage Deficit
December 2009, John Schmitt and Dean Baker

Unions and Upward Mobility for Asian Pacific American Workers
November 2009, John Schmitt, Hye Jin Rho, and Nicole Woo

The Changing Face of Labor, 1983-2008
November 2009, John Schmitt and Kris Warner

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Op-Eds & Columns

Public Spending Still Key to Economic Recovery
Mark Weisbrot
Kansas City Star (MO), January 3, 2010

Wall Street’s War Against Main Street
Dean Baker
The Guardian Unlimited, December 28, 2009

Ben Bernanke as Public Intellectual? Are You Serious?
Dean Baker
The Prospect (UK), December 16, 2009

The Reason for 15 Million Unemployed: Poor Thinking at the Top
Dean Baker
Truthout, December 7, 2009

Tax Credits for More Jobs
Dean Baker
Room for Debate, December 6, 2009

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Events

Union Members in 2009 and Beyond Brownbag Lunch Discussion

Working for an Economy by the People, for the People!

A Good Job is Hard to Find

Press Releases

The Union Advantage Across the States
February 3, 2010

Statement on The State of the Union Address
January 27, 2010

Will the Senate Health Care Bill Give Some Employers a Free Ride?
December 17, 2009

New Analysis Points to High Wage Loss and Large Jobs Deficit through 2012
December 3, 2009

Statement on President Obama's Job Summit
December 2, 2009

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Other Resources

Neoliberalism, Globalization, and Inequalities: Consequences for Health and Quality of Life


Neoliberalism, Globalization, and Inequalities: Consequences for Health and Quality of Life

with chapters by John Schmitt, Ben Zipperer, Mark Weisbrot, Dean Baker and David Rosnick Baywood Publishing Co. (2007)

The Causes of Economic Hardships for the Middle Class
Dean Bakers testimony to the House Ways and Means Committee, January 31, 2007

CEPR Economics Seminar Series
Audio and video files of ten CEPR lectures on economic issues

 

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Bridging the Gaps
CEPR is teaming up with state and national groups to document the persistent gaps between low-income working families basic needs and the resources available to them.

 

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Services and Employment:
Explaining the U.S.-European Gap
with two chapters co-authored by John Schmitt
Princeton University Press (2007)

Flat World, Big Gaps

Flat World, Big Gaps:
with a chapter by Mark Weisbrot, Dean Baker, and David Rosnick, and a chapter co-authored by Heather Boushey
(forthcoming in May 2007)

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