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Most sectors took a big hit in employment, most concerning is a loss of 42,500 jobs in health care.
Dean Baker
Dean Baker is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC.
Dean previously worked as a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute and an assistant professor at Bucknell University. He has also worked as a consultant for the World Bank, the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress, and the OECD's Trade Union Advisory Council.
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Those folks who support longer and stronger patent and related protections are anti-globalizers, trying to lock down technology. They are welcome to hold that position, but they are liars if they call themselves “globalizers.”
Wanting to Cut Social Security, Along with Everything Else, Is Still Wanting to Cut Social Security
Elites have in fact flourished over the last four decades. The share of national income going to the richest 1% has gone from 10% to 20%
We’re still far from seeing a FTT get enacted — the financial industry would probably kill to protect their profits — but it is now an idea that is treated seriously in mainstream political debates
While wages are outpacing inflation by roughly a percentage point, it seems the pace of wage growth is slowing
An Explanation that Even Economists Can Understand
The real weekly wage for manufacturing workers had fallen by roughly 1.0 percent over the last year
Human progress is not the goal of the Trump administration. Rather, it is payoffs for his wealthy friends. And that is what this new China trade deal is about