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The annual rate of wage growth over the last three months was just 3.6 percent, a pace often seen prior to the pandemic when inflation was below the Fed’s target.

Dean Baker / March 10, 2023

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Beyond the Headline Numbers in the Jobs Report: Disability and Employment

Just over 10 million working-age disabled people were out of the labor force in the last quarter of 2022 — roughly the same as the number who were out of the labor force in 2018 and 2019.

Hayley Brown and Shawn Fremstad / March 10, 2023

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Housing

Inequality

Poverty

Housing Assistance, Poverty, and Material Hardship

This article documents the antipoverty effects of housing assistance programs and their relationships with other life circumstances.

Julie Yixia Cai / March 09, 2023

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Massive Public Investment Made COVID-19 Vaccines Possible

The US public provided the financing and took on the risks needed to produce the COVID-19 vaccines. The public should also decide how to use the value its investments created.

Shawn Fremstad and Tori Coan / March 09, 2023

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Economic Crisis and Recovery

Putting Numbers in a Wrong Context to Lie to Readers

Dean Baker / March 09, 2023

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In Defense of Taxing Stock Buybacks

March 09, 2023

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Bolivia

International

Latin America and the Caribbean

Organization of American States

Almagro’s Ethics Violations at OAS Are the “Tip of a Big and Deadly Iceberg.”

“Unfortunately this is not the only, or even the most serious, violation of OAS rules that Almagro has presided over. His role, and that of OAS electoral observers, in the 2019 military coup in Bolivia has been well-documented.”

March 09, 2023

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Bolivia

Latin America and the Caribbean

Organization of American States

World

Las Violaciones Eticas de Almagro en la OEA son la “punta de un iceberg grande y mortal”

Un nuevo reportaje del Associated Press, que proporciona evidencia adicional de las violaciones éticas cometidas por el Secretario General de la OEA, Luis Almagro, es solo la “punta de un iceberg grande y mortal,” dijo Mark Weisbrot.

Mark Weisbrot / March 09, 2023

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Economic Crisis and Recovery

NPR Does Another Economy Bad Under Biden Story

March 08, 2023

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Employment

Inequality

Poverty

Subsidized Employment Can Help Fight Poverty in Good Times & Bad

Nearly 15 million people in the U.S. who would like to work are unable to find a job right now—despite a historically low national unemployment rate.

Algernon Austin, Natalia Cooper and Kali Grant / March 03, 2023

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Climate Change

Environment

Environmental Justice

Housing

United States

California Coastal Commission Public Comment on March 2023 Agenda Item Wednesday 6e – Draft Sustainability Principles

In the Future Actions section of the California Coastal Commission’s Draft Sustainability Principles, the commission needs to consider the housing crisis contained within its purview and beyond the coastal regions.

Matt Sedlar / March 01, 2023

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Social Security

Unfair Cap Means Millionaires Stop Contributing to Social Security on February 28, 2023

Most of us pay income and payroll taxes on all of our earnings, all year round. But only two months into 2023, millionaires have stopped paying Social Security taxes for the year.

Sarah Rawlins / February 28, 2023

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Intellectual Property

United States

The Best Industrial Policy Deal: Shorter Patent Monopolies, not Longer Contracts

Dean Baker / February 28, 2023

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CEPR Sanctions Watch February 2023

February 2023: a Federal Judge rules that 9/11 victims are not entitled to Afghanistan’s frozen assets; calls grow to remove Cuba from the State Sponsors of Terror list; sanctions fuel record depreciation and food price

Michael Galant / February 28, 2023

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Savings, Taxes, Share Buybacks: Fun with National Income Accounts

Dean Baker / February 26, 2023

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Inflation

Is Inflation Out of Control, Again?

Dean Baker / February 25, 2023

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Cuba

Latin America and the Caribbean

US Foreign Policy

World

Biden Should Reverse Trump’s Designation of Cuba as a “State Sponsor of Terrorism”

That’s the first step of many he can take toward normalizing US/Cuban relations.

Guillaume Long / February 24, 2023

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Economic Crisis and Recovery

Biden Wants to Outlaw “Junk” Fees for Americans, But His Administration Can Also Stop Hidden Charges that Hurt Poor Countries

While Biden is going after exploitative, hidden fees at home, there are other exploitative, hidden fees impacting the lives of hundreds of millions of people around the world.

Michael Galant / February 22, 2023