Reports

The low employment rate for Black men cannot be explained by  a lack of hard skills or soft skills. Anti-Black discrimination is the most likely explanation for this disparity.

The report finds that sanctions played a larger role in Venezuela’s economic collapse than some recent research claims.

This report on Honduras’s 2025 general elections, based on the observations of CEPR’s electoral mission to Tegucigalpa, finds no evidence in the available data to support claims of fraud. However, the elections were marked by a broader crisis of confidence, driven by partisan institutional gridlock, US interference, logistical issues, technical deficiencies, disputes over the results, and an incomplete recount process.

Cuba’s infant mortality rate has risen by 148 percent since 2018, indicating a severe deterioration in population’s overall health. The unparalleled hardening of US sanctions during the first Trump administration, largely maintained under the Biden administration and further expanded in a second Trump term, including a devastating fuel blockade, is the primary cause of the current economic and humanitarian crisis—widely considered the worst in the island’s contemporary history.

While the country is politically polarized in many ways, this collection highlights a range of public policies with broad public support that would advance worker power and enhance democracy in the United States.

A new working paper uses survey data to understand the experiences of Black workers in the South and their views of labor unions.

A new analysis of government data shows that union density was mostly steady in 2025 — with a drop in the fourth quarter that could be due to federal job cuts.

The following resource is intended to aid policymakers and advocates in understanding US sanctions policy and its lethal and humanitarian consequences.

The combination of rising costs and cost-shifting has left a large share of working families burdened with high levels of expenses: The typical working family spent $3,960 per year on health care.

In a widely circulated paper, Dany Bahar and Ricardo Hausmann claim that sanctions on the Venezuelan economy do not lead to greater migration flows to the United States. This paper shows that their conclusions rest on a serious methodological mistake: testing for a long-run relationship through a misspecified cointegration in first-differences. This mistake invalidates their statistical approach and findings.