Publications

LGBT Adults Are More Likely to Experience Mental Health Hardships, But Less Likely to Get Needed Help

Fundamental changes to laws and attitudes will be needed to address the mental health hardships faced by both LGBT and non-LGBT people, and to reduce the disparities that exist between them.

Julia Godfrey, Shawn Fremstad and Julie Yixia Cai / July 13, 2022

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NYT Goes Off the Deep End on Impoverished Millennials

These facts don’t mean that many millennials are not struggling to make ends meet, to pay off student debt, or trying to buy a home, but the idea that their parents had it markedly better is just nonsense.

Dean Baker / July 13, 2022

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Soaring Gas Prices Pushed Inflation to 1.3 Percent in June

It is hard to feel good about this report, but with wage growth slowing sharply in the last six months to around 4.0 percent, it's hard to see how an inflation rate north of 9.0 percent can be sustained.

Dean Baker / July 13, 2022

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Preview: What to Look for in June Consumer Price Index

There are many data points indicating inflation will be slowing. The question is, how much of this will show up in the CPI and when?

Dean Baker / July 11, 2022

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Intellectual Property

Governor Newsom Does Drugs, or At Least Insulin

Newsom's plan is a big and important step which should be applauded.

Dean Baker / July 10, 2022

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The New York Times Warns of 1970s Stagflation and Calls for a Volcker-Type Recession

I guess this just shows that, in some circles, it’s always a good time to call for a Volcker-type recession.

Dean Baker / July 09, 2022

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CEPR Sanctions Watch, May-June 2022

Though now a key part of US policy-making, and a defining feature of the global economic order, sanctions, and their human costs, as well as violations of treaties to which the United States is a signatory, receive relatively little attention.

Michael Galant / July 08, 2022

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Jobs

Private Sector Employment Passes Pre-Pandemic Level, Wage Growth Moderates

Workers

Wage growth continues to moderate, alleviating concerns about a wage-price spiral.

Dean Baker / July 08, 2022

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Can We Have a Wage-Price Spiral with Slowing Wage Growth?

Many folks want to tell this story about the economy today. However, there is a big problem, the data won’t cooperate. Wage growth is not accelerating, it’s slowing.

Dean Baker / July 08, 2022

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Inequality

Poverty

Romney’s Retreat and the Future of Child Allowances in the United States

Romney’s new child benefit proposal is a retreat from his earlier commitment to “not connect work and childbearing in the same policy.”

Shawn Fremstad / July 07, 2022

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Jobs

Preview: Will Moderating Wage Growth Ease Inflation Fears?

If wage growth continues to moderate, it would be hard to argue that the Fed needs to aggressively hike rates going forward.

Dean Baker / July 06, 2022

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People Are Not Spending Down Their Savings II

Data show that people are paying capital gains tax on the money they made in the stock market, not spending down savings.

Dean Baker / June 30, 2022

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Solar Power, Time, and Steel: Someone Needs to Tell the NYT That It’s Not 2021 Anymore

The price of a ton of the steel highlighted in the May 2021 piece is now down more than 40 percent from its May 2021 price.

Dean Baker / June 30, 2022

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Inequality

LGBTQ+

Lack of Universal Childcare and Other Family Benefits Hurts LGBT Parents and Caregivers

This article uses the Census Bureau’s experimental Household Pulse Survey to look at childcare experiences and the financial security of LGBT adults raising children under age 12, including both single and partnered LGBT caregivers

Julia Godfrey, Julie Yixia Cai and Shawn Fremstad / June 29, 2022

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Latin America and the Caribbean

OPEC Plus’s Accelerated Oil Production Pales in Comparison to Lost Output from US Sanctions

Biden has a significant opportunity in his hands to boost global oil production by breaking with Trump’s failed “maximum pressure” campaigns, and ending unilateral — and likely illegal — sanctions against Iran and Venezuela.

Kevin Cashman / June 27, 2022

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LGBTQ+ Workers Especially Burdened by Unpredictable Work Hours, Unstable Incomes

It is essential that policy makers address work schedule uncertainty to protect LGBTQ+ workers. Doing so could improve worker well-being and financial security.

Annabel Utz and Julie Yixia Cai / June 27, 2022

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Environment

Data Show Wildfires’ Relationship to Logging Employment in California

Workers

The relationship between wildfire recovery and logging jobs is just one example of private capital turning calamity into cash.

Matt Sedlar / June 27, 2022

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Abortion

Economic Justice