Publications

Health and Social Programs

The $119 Billion Spent on Food Stamps Last Year Was 1.9 Percent of Federal Spending, but You All Knew That, Right?

Dean Baker / February 17, 2023

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Prices

The Future of Vehicle Prices

Dean Baker / February 17, 2023

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Climate Change

Inflation Reduction Act

Statement on Importance of Federal Oversight of Inflation Reduction Act’s Labor, Equity, and Environmental Goals

Workers

When major public investments like these are not properly supervised, inequity, waste and corruption is an inevitable result, and the diverse working class loses out. Rigorous oversight of the IRA's implementation needs to be a top priority for Biden.

February 16, 2023

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Affordable Care Act

Health and Social Programs

Social Security

Why Would Anyone Think the Republicans Are Interested in Lower Budget Deficits?

Dean Baker / February 15, 2023

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Prices

That 3.0 Percent Jump in Retail Sales in January Is Not a Big Deal

Dean Baker / February 15, 2023

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COVID-19

Moderna’s $130 Vaccine and the Path to Cheap Drugs

Intellectual Property

February 14, 2023

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Food Prices

Inflation

Inflation Preview: What to Look for in January’s CPI Release

After seeing mostly good news on inflation through the second half of 2022, we are likely to see a more mixed picture in the January CPI.

Dean Baker / February 13, 2023

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Economic Growth

Aging Populations and Great Power Politics: The Problem is for the Elites, not the Masses

There is little reason for the overwhelming majority of the country to be concerned about a declining population.

Dean Baker / February 13, 2023

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When the WPA Created Over 400,000 Jobs for Black Workers

In response to the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) created jobs for over 8 million people between 1935 and 1943.

Algernon Austin / February 09, 2023

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The NYT Tells Us that Drugs Are Cheap, Government-Granted Patent Monopolies Make Them Expensive

February 07, 2023

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Healthcare

Intellectual Property

Ending the Cesspool in Pharmaceuticals by Taking Away Patent Monopolies

It is absurd that we use the power of the government to make life-saving drugs that would sell for hundreds of dollars in a free market, instead sell for tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Dean Baker / February 05, 2023

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Federal Reserve

Inflation

The Fed’s 2.0 Percent Inflation Target

Inflation can move unpredictably, as we have seen, and a 2.5 percent inflation rate means there is little room for a rise without the Fed having to be worried, but there seems little harm in waiting.

Dean Baker / February 05, 2023

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Affordable Care Act

Health and Social Programs

Healthcare

Social Security

The Washington Post Wants to Cut Social Security and Medicare (Yeah, What Else is New?)

Much has been done to improve the program's finances in contrast to what is implied in the Post’s editorial. The key is reducing the costs of our healthcare system as a whole.

Dean Baker / February 05, 2023

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Vaccine Nationalism: China’s and Ours

February 04, 2023

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Jobs

Job and Hour Growth Soar in January, Unemployment Hits New Half-Century Low

Workers

Wage Growth Remains Solid in Most Sectors

Dean Baker / February 03, 2023

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Economic Growth

Jobs