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Latin America and the Caribbean

World

World Bank

América Latina necesita acceder a recursos sin generar deuda: Emisión de Derechos Especiales de Giro

Una nueva ola de endeudamiento externo no debería ser la opción de salida de la crisis para los países de América Latina. Actualmente, la condonación o diferimiento del servicio de la deuda esta disponible para países de ingreso bajo.

Patricia Miranda July 01, 2020

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Health and Social Programs

Workers

Older Workers Targeted in Trump’s Lawsuit to End Obamacare

The ACA has many inadequacies, but it has allowed tens of millions to get insurance who could not otherwise. Donald Trump wants to take this insurance away.

Dean Baker / June 30, 2020

Article Artículo

The Dow and Government-Granted Patent Monopolies

Intellectual Property

Dean Baker / June 30, 2020

Article Artículo

Coronavirus

The Washington Post is Worried Its Path of Structuring Globalization to Redistribute Income Upward Could be Jeopardized

Intellectual Property

Dean Baker / June 28, 2020

Article Artículo

NYT Argues Workers Should Get More, but Gets Some Important Facts Wrong

Intellectual Property

Dean Baker / June 28, 2020

Article Artículo

Great Time for a Vacant Property Tax

Dean Baker / June 26, 2020

Article Artículo

Coronavirus

Airline Executives Have Problems with Arithmetic!

It turns out that it is not just Donald Trump and economics reporters, but airline executives also have trouble with basic arithmetic.

Dean Baker / June 26, 2020

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Coronavirus

Health and Social Programs

Don’t Neglect Funding Early Childcare and Education Infrastructure

Social infrastructure holds the key to successfully navigating a range of challenges on the horizon. This is nowhere more important than in the care and education of young children.

Eileen Appelbaum / June 26, 2020

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More Thoughts on the Recession, Stimulus, and Recovery

As we get more data in, it seems increasingly likely that we are looking at a horrible and prolonged recession, not a complete economic collapse of Great Depression proportions.

Dean Baker / June 24, 2020

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Government

Revolving Door Project

The Quiet Seizure of Independent Agencies

Chuck Schumer has stood mute while Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell hand a gift to corporate America.

Jeff Hauser, Eleanor Eagan and David Segal / June 24, 2020

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Black Workers’ Jobs Matter

Proposals that weaponize the pandemic to undermine the Postal Service and state and local governments should be recognized for the outsize harm they will inflict on Black workers and retirees.

Hayley Brown and Dean Baker / June 24, 2020

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More Mind Reading as Washington Post Pushes Another Round of Pandemic Checks as Stimulus

Dean Baker / June 23, 2020

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International Monetary Fund

US Foreign Policy

World

From a Broken Economy to a People’s Economy

CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot participated in an event on June 13 as part of “Arise: A Festival of Labour’s Left ideas,” organized with the United Kingdom’s Labour Assembly Against Austerity.

June 23, 2020

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Workers

Saving the Post Office, Defending Black Workers

The Postal Service has historically been an important source of middle-class jobs for Black workers, especially where racial discrimination was strongest in the private sector. This pattern continues to the present.

Hayley Brown and Dean Baker / June 23, 2020

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