Inequality Archives - Center for Economic and Policy Research

CEPR investigates economic and social policies that affect, as well as methods of measuring, levels of hardship, poverty and inequality in the U.S.

CEPR investiga las políticas económicas y sociales que afectan, así como los métodos para medir, los niveles de adversidad, pobreza y desigualdad en los Estados Unidos.

Op-Ed/Commentary

CoronavirusInequalityUS Food and Housing Hardship Over the COVID-19 Recession

The unequal burden of the recession has been widely reported and the findings in this article demonstrate a need for creating a recovery that is equitable and sustained.

Simran Kalkat Julie Yixia Cai / May 12, 2021

Op-Ed/Commentary

Economic Crisis and RecoveryGovernmentInequality President Biden Should Reappoint Powell as Fed Chair, Now

Jerome Powell has explicitly said that he wants to have the economy run hot, pushing it as far he can without kicking off inflation.

Dean Baker / May 12, 2021

Op-Ed/Commentary

GovernmentInequalityUS Biden Proposes Progress, Republicans Scream “Socialism”

There was no investment boom when Reagan, Bush II, and Trump cut taxes.

Dean Baker / BOZEMAN (MT) DAILY CHRONICLE / May 06, 2021

Op-Ed/Commentary

Economic Crisis and RecoveryGovernmentInequalityUSWorkers COVID-19 Recession Disproportionately Harmed Working-Class Mothers

From April to December 2020, 1.45 million fewer working-class mothers were employed compared to the same time period in 2019.