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

Inequality Do Republicans Distrust the I.R.S. in the Same Way Bank Robbers Distrust the Police?

/ July 25, 2021

Op-Ed/Commentary

Health and Social ProgramsInequalityPovertyUS Fail Again, Fail Worse: Fewer Families Received TANF Cash Assistance in 2020 than in 2019

Recently updated data on TANF’s performance during the pandemic recession suggest that TANF is on track to fail worse than during the Great Recession.

Shawn Fremstad / July 21, 2021

Op-Ed/Commentary

GovernmentInequality Washington Post Has Another Pulitzer Prize Contender in Mind Reading Category, Tells Us Why Republican Senators Don’t Want to Increase I.R.S. Enforcement

Thankfully we have the Washington Post to tell us that the Republican effort to block a crackdown on rich tax cheats had nothing to do with serving their campaign contributors.

Dean Baker / July 18, 2021

Op-Ed/Commentary

Inequality Can We Cut the Crap on “Unconstrained Globalized Capitalism”?

I get why the right likes to make it seem that the huge upward redistribution of the last four decades was just the result of the market working its magic, but why do so many liberals feel the need to play along?

Dean Baker / July 18, 2021