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The Republicans are doing everything they can to make it so that people with serious health problems pay more for their health insurance
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.
It is important to recognize that the manufacturing jobs lost to imports over the past two decades are not coming back
The Deficit Hawks Did Enormous Harm to Our Kids
The story was a very big bubble that people like Bernanke, Paulson and Geithner completely missed. It burst, and we paid an enormous price for it
Donald Trump’s trade war with China will mean more money for shareholders and fewer US jobs in manufacturing. This is not a good story for the country’s workers
Last month Amazon joined Apple, becoming the second company in the world to have a $1 trillion market capitalization
A Potent Weapon Against Inequality
Many of the opponents of the Republican tax cuts predicted a wide range of disaster scenarios if the tax cuts passed. Most…
Several states, including California, Oregon, Illinois and most recently New York have set up systems whereby workers without retirement plans at their workplaces can make contributions to a public retirement system
We are seeing no serious evidence of the sort of investment boom promised by the proponents of the Trump tax cut