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Article Artículo

Should Jamie Dimon Get a Government Salary?

While government tax and transfer policy to reduce inequality is desirable, it is best not to structure the market to create so much inequality in the first place.

Dean Baker / May 22, 2023

Article Artículo

Quick Note on the Debt Burden and the Burden of Patent and Copyright Monopolies

Dean Baker / May 21, 2023

Article Artículo

Asian Americans Have the Lowest Incomes in Mississippi; Highest in New Jersey

Asian Americans have the highest median household income of the major racial and ethnic groups in the United States. This is partially the result of an immigration process that has favored Asian immigrants with higher levels of educational attainment.

Algernon Austin / May 18, 2023

Article Artículo

Import Prices are Falling!

Dean Baker / May 18, 2023

Article Artículo

Housing

United States

Housing Units Under Construction Still Above Year-Ago Level

With many homes still under construction, we will see many more homes being completed over the course of the year, which should mean downward pressure on prices and rents.

Dean Baker / May 17, 2023

Article Artículo

Budget and National Debt

Debt

Economic Crisis and Recovery

United States

Will Biden Invoke the 14th?

Many of us have underestimated Biden before. He managed to get an amazing amount of important legislation through a 50-50 Senate and with only a narrow Democratic majority in the House. It doesn’t seem likely he would walk into negotiations with a Republican Speaker indebted to the party’s biggest loons without a backup plan.

Dean Baker / May 16, 2023

report informe

AAPI

Economic Crisis and Recovery

Care-Related Part-Time Employment: The Case for Federally Guaranteed Paid Family and Medical Leave

The U.S. is one of only six countries worldwide that does not mandate some form of paid leave. Paid family and medical leave is a critical benefit that typically guarantees eligible workers up to 12 weeks of paid leave.

Julie Yixia Cai and Tori Coan / May 15, 2023

Article Artículo

Poverty

Wages

Workers

The Subminimum Wage Plus Tips: A Bad Bargain for Workers

The May 2023 issue of the New Labor Forum discusses the systemic flaws in the United States’ two-tiered minimum wage system, focusing on the long-overlooked federal subminimum wage for tipped workers

Sylvia Allegretto / May 15, 2023

Article Artículo

David Brooks and the “Which Way Is Up?” Problem in Economics

May 12, 2023

Article Artículo

The Golden Solution for Dealing with the Debt Ceiling

Dean Baker / May 12, 2023

Article Artículo

COVID-19

Health and Social Programs

Children and Youth Nearly Twice as Likely to Die in the South as in New England

The mortality rate for children and youth in the Southeastern This article uses Bureau of Economic Analysis regional definitions.

Algernon Austin / May 10, 2023

Article Artículo

Media

Turkey

World

Contrary to What the New York Times Tells You, the Turkish Economy Has not Been Shrinking for a Decade

While it is true that Turkey has inflation, it is wrong to claim that Turkey’s gross domestic product has been declining.

Dean Baker / May 10, 2023

Article Artículo

COVID-19

Economic Crisis and Recovery

Economic Growth

Inflation

United States

Joe Biden Has Given Us the Greatest Economy Ever

We now have the greatest economy ever. I’m saying that because President Biden won’t and everyone knows damn well that if Donald Trump was in the White House, and we had the same economic situation, he would be boasting about the greatest economy ever all the time.

Dean Baker / May 10, 2023

Jobs Byte Artículo

Economy Adds 253,000 Jobs, Black Unemployment Hits New Record Low of 4.7 Percent

If the Fed’s rate hikes don’t due too much damage going forward, and we don’t see serious fallout from the banking crisis, the labor market looks great.

Dean Baker / May 05, 2023

Article Artículo

The Teacher Pay Penalty Hit a New High in 2021

Over the last 18 years, EPI has closely tracked trends in teacher pay. Over these nearly two decades, a picture of increasingly alarming trends has emerged.

Sylvia Allegretto / May 05, 2023

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The Human Consequences of Economic Sanctions

This paper provides a comprehensive survey and assessment of the literature on the effects of economic sanctions on living standards in target countries.

Francisco R. Rodríguez / May 04, 2023

Article Artículo

Health and Social Programs

Healthcare

Private Equity

Envision on the Rocks

Envision Healthcare – the private equity-owned physician staffing firm whose clinicians can be found staffing 540 health care facilities in 45 states – is in serious financial trouble.

Eileen Appelbaum / May 04, 2023

Article Artículo

The Harm that Sanctions Do to the Vulnerable

Western countries’ foreign policy tool of choice has a dramatic negative effect on living standards.

Francisco R. Rodríguez / May 04, 2023

report informe

The Human Consequences of Economic Sanctions

This paper provides a comprehensive survey and assessment of the literature on the effects of economic sanctions on living standards in target countries.

Francisco R. Rodríguez / May 04, 2023

Article Artículo

April Jobs Preview: What to Expect in the April Jobs Report

As in past months, attention will focus on whether the slowdown in wage growth seems to be continuing. The monthly wage data are erratic, and as happened several times in the last year, can be substantially revised...

Dean Baker / May 03, 2023

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