March 11, 2011
This week, we post links to reports from Center for Economic and Policy Research, Demos, Economic Policy Institute, National Employment Law Project, and Political Economy Research Institute.
Center for Economic and Policy Research
The Potential Savings to Social Security from Means Testing
Dean Baker and Hye Jin Rho
Demos
Back to Work: A Public Jobs Proposal for Economic Recovery
Philip Harvey
Economic Policy Institute
Why Do Some States Have Higher Unemployment Rates?
Josh Bivens
Desperate Techniques Used to Preserve the Myth of the Overcompensated Public Employee
Jeffrey H. Keefe
National Employment Law Project
An Overview of Job Quality and Discretionary Economic Development Subsidies in New York City
Fiscal Policy Institute, Good Jobs New York, and National Employment Law Project
Political Economy Research Institute
Wage Norms, Capital Accumulation and Unemployment: A Post Keynesian View
Engelbert Stockhammer
Pushing Working Families into Poverty: Assessing the New Haven Plan to Privatize the Public Schools’ Custodial Services
Jeannette Wicks-Lim