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KCENTV.com
April 3, 2018
You can relax: There is “zero doubt that Social Security will be there for millennials,” says Dean Baker, a senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Even if nothing is done to shore up the system, Baker says people retiring in 30 to 40 years can count on about 10% more money,Ãâà...
Splinter (blog)
April 3, 2018
... only a very slight exaggeration of the real business model of private equity. We turned to economist Eileen Appelbaum, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and the co-author of the book “Private Equity At Work,” for a straightforward explanation of the most vampiric of all industries.
The Real News Network
April 1, 2018
Mark Weisbrot is Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan. He is author of the book Failed: What the "Experts" Got Wrong About the Global Economy (Oxford University Press, 2015), co-author, withÃâà...
The Real News Network
March 24, 2018
Mark Weisbrot is Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan. He is author of the book Failed: What the "Experts" Got Wrong About the Global Economy (Oxford University Press, 2015), co-author, withÃâà...
The Commercial Appeal
March 21, 2018
Nationally, the Center for Economic and Policy Research found that the U.S. had 12 million to 14 million working-age ex-offenders. The resulting "reductions in employment cost the U.S. economy between $57 and $65 billion in lost output." Tennessee's Fresh Start bills can provide skilled ex-offenders withÃâà...
R Street
March 21, 2018
Nationally, the Center for Economic and Policy Research found that the U.S. had 12 million to 14 million working-age ex-offenders. The resulting “reductions in employment cost the U.S. economy between $57 and $65 billion in lost output.” Tennessee's Fresh Start bills can provide skilled ex-offenders withÃâà...
The American Prospect
March 21, 2018
“There's this idea that Amazon disrupted retail, but retail is constantly being disrupted,” said Eileen Appelbaum, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and co-author of Private Equity at Work, a critique of the industry. “Zara came along and changed high fashion every two weeks.
CNN
March 21, 2018
Businesses that refuse to hire ex-offenders hurt not only their bottom line but also the wider economy. A study by the Center for Economic and Policy Research found that job barriers for ex-offenders put as many as 1.9 million people out of work in 2014, costing the economy an estimated $78 billion to $87Ãâà...
FAIR
March 20, 2018
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The Badger Herald
March 20, 2018
The Center for Economic and Policy Research has done extensive work, suggesting workers of manufacturing — whose industry will be sorely weakened by Trump's trade war — are already hurting enough. Those who work construction jobs still have not recovered from the burst of the housing bubble.
The CT Mirror
March 13, 2018
“Focusing on novel scandals alone can distract from the enormous scale of the Trump administration's embrace of revolving-door hiring,” said Jeff Hauser, executive director of the Revolving Door Project at the nonpartisan Center for Economic and Policy Research. The pipelines between conservativeÃâà...
The New Yorker
December 31, 1999
... a U.S. Navy medic, to run the sprawling Department of Veterans Affairs. The jokes are still coming. “Ronny Jackson says Trump weighs 239 pounds and gets to be VA Secretary,” Dean Baker, a senior economist at the liberal Center for Economic and Policy Research, tweeted on Thursday morning.
The Real News Network
December 31, 1999
Senators introduced legislation that would undermine the Sanders-Lee resolution to stop US support for Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen. "They're trying to provide cover for just a handful of senators so they can vote for this instead of the Sanders Lee bill," says CEPR's Mark WeisbrotÃâà...
The Real News Network
December 31, 1999
Dean Baker is senior economist at The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). He is the author of several books including, The United States Since 1980; Social Security: The Phony Crisis (with Mark Weisbrot); and The Benefits of Full Employment (with Jared Bernstein). He appears frequentlyÃâà...
