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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

United States

Workers

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

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

Dean Baker / July 08, 2022

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Economic Crisis and Recovery

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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Health and Social Programs

Inequality

Poverty

United States

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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Economic Crisis and Recovery

Jobs

United States

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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Economic Crisis and Recovery

United States

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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Economic Crisis and Recovery

United States

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+

United States

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

United States

Workers

Data Show Wildfires’ Relationship to Logging Employment in California

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

Health and Social Programs

In Striking Down Roe, the Supreme Court Has Dealt a Blow to Reproductive and Economic Justice

It’s time to build the power necessary to ensure no one is forced by the state to bear a child and the life-transforming consequences that act involves.

Hayley Brown and Annabel Utz / June 24, 2022

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Inequality

A Cold War with China, Global Warming, and Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

It would be truly ironic if we were to transfer still more income upward, with increased subsidies for research and development, with the gains locked down by a small elite with their patent and copyright monopolies.

Dean Baker / June 23, 2022

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Globalization and Trade

World

World Trade Organization

The World Trade Organization After the 12th Ministerial Conference

New mandates must beget new organizing.

Deborah James / June 22, 2022

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Colombia

Latin America and the Caribbean

World

Colombia también podría elegir un ‘outsider’ de presidente

Al igual que Castillo en el Perú, Hernández se convirtió en la sorpresa de la primera vuelta electoral de Colombia.

CEPR and Francesca Emanuele / June 19, 2022

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Intellectual Property

United States

Neoliberals Do Not Like a Free Market, but They Want You to Think They Do

Neoliberal types are just fine with all sorts of government interventions that redistribute income upward. They just get upset when the government intervenes in ways that redistributes from those on top to the rest of us.

Dean Baker / June 19, 2022

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Economic Crisis and Recovery

United States

Washington Post Goes Full Looney Tunes in Whipping Up Recession Hysteria

If Washington Post reporters and editors had access to the Washington Post, they would know that the Federal Reserve Board was ostensibly worried about the economy growing too rapidly, thereby triggering inflation.

Dean Baker / June 19, 2022