February 25, 2011
This is the fifth installment of a new weekly feature at the CEPR Blog. Every Friday, we’ll post a list of labor market related policy research reports from progressive research centers around the country. This week, reports from Center for American Progress, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Center for Economic and Policy Research, Center for Law and Social Policy, Economic Policy Institute, Political Economic Research Institute, and UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment.
Center for American Progress
Essential Elements of Teacher Policy in ESEA: Effectiveness, Fairness, and Evaluation
The Center for American Progress and The Education Trust
Principals’ Approaches to Developing Teacher Quality: Constraints and Opportunities in Hiring, Assigning, Evaluating, and Developing Teachers
Morgaen L. Donaldson
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Creating Subsidized Employment Opportunities for Low-Income Parents: The Legacy of the TANF Emergency Fund
LaDonna Pavetti, PhD., Liz Schott and Elizabeth Lower-Basch
Bowles-Simpson Social Security Proposal Not a Good Starting Point for Reforms: Relies Far Too Much on Benefit Cuts, Makes Other Problematic Changes
Kathy Ruffing and Paul N. Van de Water
Medicaid Block Grant Would Shift Financial Risks and Costs to States: States Would Bear Impact of Recessions, Higher Medical Costs
Edwin Park and Matt Broaddus
Center for Economic and Policy Research
The Origins and Severity of the Public Pension Crisis
Dean Baker
Center for Law and Social Policy
Creating Subsidized Employment Opportunities for Low-Income Parents: The Legacy of the TANF Emergency Fund
LaDonna Pavetti, PhD., Liz Schott and Elizabeth Lower-Basch
Responding to the Great Recession: How the Recovery Act Boosted Training and Innovation in Three States
Neil Ridley and Evelyn Ganzglass
Economic Policy Institute
The Compensation Penalty of “Right-to-Work” Laws
Elise Gould and Heidi Shierholz
Recovery Act’s Green Investments Create or Save Nearly One Million Jobs
Jason Walsh (BlueGreen Alliance), Josh Bivens, and Ethan Pollack
Waiting for Change: The $2.13 Federal Subminimum Wage
Sylvia A. Allegretto and Kai Filion
Political Economy Research Institute
Costly Migration and the Incidence of State and Local Taxes
Jeff Thompson
UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
