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Article Artículo

COVID-19

Economic Growth

United States

Workers

Pandemic Causes Loss of 20,500,000 Jobs, Unemployment at 14.7 Percent

Temporary layoffs make up 78.3 percent of unemployment.

Dean Baker / May 08, 2020

Article Artículo

Mothers in Frontline Industries Deserve Better

Mothers working in frontline industries are disproportionately nonwhite compared to the general workforce, and to other mothers in the general workforce.

Hayley Brown, Hye Jin Rho and Shawn Fremstad / May 08, 2020

Article Artículo

COVID-19

Globalization and Trade

World

World Trade Organization

What Not to Do During a Pandemic: Business-As-Usual on Trade Negotiations

some rich countries, including Australia, Canada, and Switzerland, as well as the European Union, are busy at the World Trade Organization (WTO) trying to pressure others into “virtual negotiations” on investment facilitation, regulation of domestic servi

Deborah James / May 07, 2020

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How Private Equity Firms Will Profit From COVID-19

Unless Congress and regulators act, private equity will shed its nonperforming assets and feast on new ones. J. Crew is the latest example.

Eileen Appelbaum, Andrew Park and Rosemary Batt / May 07, 2020

Article Artículo

COVID-19

United States

Workers

Workers in Frontline Industries in Chicago and Illinois

Illinois is one of the hardest hit states in the US by COVID-19, with more than 50,000 confirmed cases as of May 4. There are more than 1.3 million workers on the frontlines of the COVID-19 response in Illinois.

Hye Jin Rho, Hayley Brown, Shawn Fremstad and Peter Creticos / May 06, 2020

Article Artículo

Economic Crisis and Recovery

Inequality

Fixing the Bailout Scammers: The Ten Percent Solution

Dean Baker / May 06, 2020

Article Artículo

Economic Crisis and Recovery

Why Did the NYT Tell Readers that Republicans “Distrust” Food Stamps?

Dean Baker / May 06, 2020

Article Artículo

Argentina

IMF

Without an Economic Recovery, Argentina Cannot Repay Its Debt

Lara Merling / May 05, 2020

Article Artículo

COVID-19

Economic Crisis and Recovery

Intellectual Property

Government-Granted Patent Monopolies Give Drug Companies an Incentive to Lie About the Safety and Effectiveness of Their Drugs

Dean Baker / May 05, 2020

Article Artículo

Haiti

US Foreign Policy

Can Haiti’s Peanut Value Chain Survive US Generosity?

Marc J. Cohen and Tonny Joseph May 05, 2020

Article Artículo

COVID-19

United States

Don’t Just Appreciate, Empower

We need your support as well, so we can continue to push for the policies that will ensure that frontline workers have access to paid sick and family leave.

CEPR / May 05, 2020

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COVID-19

Latin America and the Caribbean

US Foreign Policy

Exportación de COVID-19: Inmigración estadounidense realizó vuelos de deportación a 11 países de América Latina, según datos aéreos

Un análisis de CEPR revela que es probable que hubo 232 vuelos de deportación del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de Estados Unidos (ICE, por sus siglas en inglés) a países de América Latina y el Caribe entre el 3 de febrero y el 24 de abril

Jake Johnston / May 05, 2020