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Government

Congressional Democrats Exhibit Symptoms Of A Spinelessness Pandemic

Amidst crisis, House Democrats have an opportunity (perhaps their final one) to prove their worth. Will they seize it?

March 06, 2020

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Affordable Care Act

Inequality

The Effects of Hospital Consolidation in Colorado

This report looks at the state of Colorado to examine the factors that are contributing to consolidation in local markets and the impact of consolidation on residents across all regions of the state.

Jared Gaby-Biegel / March 05, 2020

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Wall Street

Coronavirus, the Stock Market, and the Economy

Dean Baker / March 05, 2020

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Donald Trump Says People in the United States Should be Getting Lower Interest Rates than People in Other Countries

Dean Baker / March 03, 2020

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The Coronavirus Could Wreck the Economy. These Steps Would Help Limit the Damage

If our fears prove correct, no matter what we do, the economy will take a hit. But if we act aggressively now to get such measures in place, we can at least avoid a lot of unnecessary economic hardship.

Dean Baker and Jared Bernstein / March 02, 2020

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Economic Growth

Workers

Book Review of Darrell M. West’s The Future of Work: Robots, AI, and Automation

Technology in and of itself, as well as adapting society to corporate visions of future, are no solutions at all.

Kevin Cashman / March 02, 2020

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Government

Intellectual Property

Getting Beyond Trump’s Coronavirus Clown Show

The coronavirus should be yet another lesson as to why there is a better alternative to patent monopolies for financing biomedical research.

Dean Baker / March 02, 2020

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Globalization and Trade

Inequality

The Washington Post Really Does Not Like Populism

Dean Baker / March 02, 2020

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Affordable Care Act

What Older Americans Need to Know about the Differences Between Biden and Sanders on Social Security and Medicare

The vast majority of older Americans have a lot to gain from Medicare for All, but you wouldn’t know it from the polls. Perhaps the relevant information has not been as widely available as it should be.

Mark Weisbrot / March 02, 2020

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Bolivia

World

Bolivia desechó sus elecciones de octubre por fraudulentas. Nuestra investigación no encontró ninguna evidencia de fraude

Los bolivianos celebrarán una nueva elección en mayo, pero sin la participación del derrocado presidente Evo Morales.

CEPR, John Curiel and Jack R. Williams / February 28, 2020

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US Foreign Policy

Honesty Isn’t Just a Campaign Attribute, It’s a Prerequisite for Change

How can a politician be honest about addressing migration if they can’t be honest about their country’s role in stoking the migration in the first place?

Jake Johnston / February 28, 2020

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Bolivia

World

Analysis of the 2019 Bolivia Election

This report finds that Morales’s victory can be explained by his voter support before the preliminary vote count halted, through three analyses of the vote prior to the cutoff at 84% of the vote count.

Jack R. Williams and John Curiel February 27, 2020

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Bolivia

World

Análisis de las elecciones de Bolivia en 2019

El 20 de octubre de 2019, Bolivia celebró sus terceras elecciones generales bajo la Constitución de 2009.

Jack R. Williams and John Curiel February 27, 2020

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Biden and Buttigieg See Pharma Money As The Cure For Campaign Woes

February 27, 2020

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Education is Good, but it Won’t “Fix” Poverty

Wealthy nations with much lower poverty rates than the United States have strong welfare-state and labor-market institutions that reduce the risk of poverty for people at all education levels.

Shawn Fremstad / February 26, 2020

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Haiti

US Foreign Policy

International Pleas Ring Hollow in Haiti

Kira Paulemon / February 26, 2020

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Do Stockholders Look Forward to a Decade of Very Low Returns?

Dean Baker / February 25, 2020

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