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Positions of Presidential Hopefuls on Range of Housing Issues
CEPR’s new report compares rental housing policies expressed by most of the 2020 presidential candidates and outlines current funding levels of selected federal housing and homelessness programs.
The Latest About the Coup d'etat in Bolivia
See our latest work on Bolivia and the coup d'etat here. And read Mark Weisbrot's new op-ed, "The Organization of American States Has Deceived the Public, Terribly, on the Bolivian Election."
Is Ecuador's Austerity Crisis Over, or Just Beginning?
Ecuador's IMF program "is so deeply flawed that it is bound to cause more trouble," and "the IMF has already acknowledged that the shrinking of the Ecuadorian economy this year is a result of the budget-tightening in its program," Mark Weisbrot writes at The Nation.
Historically Slow Productivity Growth Since 2005 Hampers Wages, Profits
Workers are losing their share of the benefits from economic growth. In his new paper, CEPR Senior Economist Dean Baker examines how much the typical worker lost as a result of upward redistribution.
Op-eds & Columns
General Trump’s Strange Offensive in His Trade War
Dean Baker
Truthout, December 9, 2019
Workers are Benefitting from Low Unemployment and Higher Minimum Wages
Dean Baker
Truthout, December 2, 2019
The WTO 20 Years After the 'Battle of Seattle'
Deborah James
Al Jazeera, November 29, 2019
How the OAS, and the Media’s Lack of Scrutiny, Caused a Violent Coup in Bolivia
Guillaume Long
OpenDemocracy, November 25, 2019
Publications
Eileen Appelbaum's Testimony for a House Committee on Financial Services Hearing Titled “America for Sale? An Examination of the Practices of Private Funds”
November 19, 2019, Eileen Appelbaum
Rental Housing and Homelessness in the 2020 Election: Positions of Presidential Candidates
November 2019, Andrea M. Beaty and Shawn Fremstad
What Happened in Bolivia’s 2019 Vote Count?
November 2019, Guillaume Long, David Rosnick, Cavan Kharrazian, and Kevin Cashman
Bolivia’s Economic Transformation: Macroeconomic Policies, Institutional Changes and Results
October 2019, Andrés Arauz, Mark Weisbrot, Andrew Bunker and Jake Johnston
CEPR in the News
Deal Offers Paid Leave for Federal Workers, But Only New Parents
MarketPlace Radio, December 11, 2019
US Lobbyists Prepare to Seize "Historic Opportunity" in Tory-Led Brexit to Shred Consumer Safeguards, Raise Drug Prices
The Intercept, December 09, 2019
Meet the New IMF, Same as the Old IMF
Fair Observer, December 04, 2019
Buttigieg Is Wrong — Free College Should Be Free for All, Including Children of the Rich
Los Angeles Times, December 02, 2019
This Doctors Group Is Owned by a Private Equity Firm and Repeatedly Sued the Poor Until We Called Them
ProPublica, November 27, 2019
Blogs
CEPR Blog
Blog postings by CEPR staff and updates on the latest briefings and activities at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
Beat the Press
Beat the Press is Dean Baker's commentary on economic reporting. Dean Baker is senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR).
The Americas Blog
Social, political and economic analysis of the Western Hemisphere.
Blue Collar Jobs Tracker
CEPR’s Blue Collar Jobs Tracker lets you take a closer look at the path of job growth in four major blue-collar industries: manufacturing, mining, construction, and logging.
Haiti: Relief and Reconstruction Watch
Relief and Reconstruction Watch is a blog that tracks multinational aid efforts in Haiti with an eye towards ensuring they are oriented towards the needs of the Haitian people.
The World in Transition: Economics & Politics
Mark Weisbrot’s blog on economic and political trends in a multi-polar world.
Research Tools
Online Calculators
Compare home ownership vs. rental costs and convert federal budget numbers into per capita or percentage totals.