Publications

This report presents the outcome of the Commission to Modernize Social Security's deliberations. The Commission was given the task of identifying proposals to extend the US' Social Security's long-ter...chevron_right

This paper addresses the claim that the governments of Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela have failed to effectively reduce inequality in the 2000s and only benefited from high commodity prices...chevron_right

This paper presents a brief overview of Argentina’s recent economic performance. According to the authors, Argentina’s deep recession from 1998-2002 was, in terms of lost output, one of the worst of t...chevron_right

In this research paper, the authors investigate the effect of tax cuts on the economy. They do this by testing Stanford Economics Professor John Taylor and other economist’s hypothesis that people wou...chevron_right

This paper examines how many workers would be affected by an increase in the social security payroll tax cap. To this end, the authors examine Census Bureau data from the 2009 American Community Surve...chevron_right

This paper examines the claim, made by a number of politicians, that social security is bankrupt and will not be there for future generations. The authors of this paper contest this claim. Based on pr...chevron_right

This paper gives guidance to anti-poverty activists on how to create poverty-awareness among US Americans. The author states that only one percent of US Americans point to "poverty" when asked about t...chevron_right

This paper examines the impact of cutting social security cost of living adjustments on the living standards of the elderly. The authors argue that proposals to reduce the annual cost of living adjust...chevron_right

This paper examines the sharp decline in the employment-to-population ratio of men in their prime working years in the United States. It acknowledges the need for an industrial strategy to support sec...chevron_right

Economists have two main ways of estimating the amount of real economic activity in a given period. First, there is gross domestic product (GDP), which totals up the market value of production of good...chevron_right

Cholera is both a preventable and easily cured disease, yet in July 2011—nine months after it was first reported in Haiti—an average of 1300 people were infected each day, and 375 had died over the co...chevron_right

On February 23, 2010, heads of state from Latin America and the Caribbean met and formed a new organization: the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC). It has the same membership as...chevron_right

This paper contains the testimony of Dean Baker, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, which briefly summarizes the findings of two papers on the risk of dismissal in the course ...chevron_right

In this report, the authors provide a statistical overview of the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) workforce in the US and find that AAPI workers are highly diverse, and face many challenges...chevron_right

This paper outlines a proposal for a system of work sharing which would give employers an incentive to maintain workers on their payroll at reduced hours as an alternative to laying them off. The syst...chevron_right