Publications

Trump’s cuts to NIH funding, driven by political motives rather than analysis, threaten to slow medical progress, raise drug prices, and shift scientific leadership abroad.

Transparency is about more than just how the government responds to open records requests. Proactive disclosure would represent fundamental change — and it would be a real challenge to corporate power.

By any fair assessment, Elon Musk’s DOGE is a complete disaster.

Eliminating the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program is one more part of the Trump administration’s drive to reduce federal involvement in disaster relief and mitigation. The White House is causing real damage and abandoning communities in need.

There are clearly visible headwinds in various economic indicators– it remains to be seen if they will have an impact on the labor market.

Trump’s tariffs and budget cuts have triggered a sharp drop in confidence and real consumer spending, signaling real economic trouble.

The first quarterly GDP report under Trump shows early economic impacts from anticipated tariffs, slowing productivity growth, waning factory construction, and heightened uncertainty about future growth, signaling a shift away from the pandemic recovery pattern and raising recession risks.

Driven by its own false narrative about dangerous migrants, the Trump administration is deporting even innocent people — including a US citizen toddler — in a desperate, lawless attempt to maintain the illusion that it is cracking down on criminal immigrants.

Trump is not going to produce a manufacturing job boom. Instead, he will establish a Russian-type risk premium associated with investing in the United States.

The Center for Economic and Policy Research, ActionAid USA, MENAFem, Bretton Woods Project, and Latindadd hosted a panel discussion at the IMF-World Bank 2025 Spring Meeting Civil Society Policy Forum.