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The Washington Post has used both its opinion and news sections to push for cuts to Social Security and Medicare for many…
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.
I’m on the road (literally, driving from southern Utah to western Oregon) but I thought I should quickly weigh in on the…
Guess so since it gave Brian Riedl, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, plenty of space to say things that are extremely deceptive,…
I was happy to see this segment of Ezra Klein’s show (hosted by Rogé Karma) which featured an interview with Columbia University…
The idea of industrial policy has taken on almost a mystical quality for many progressives. The idea is that it is somehow new and…
I remember talking to a progressive group a bit more than a decade ago, arguing for the merits of a financial transactions…
At this point, a large majority of non-college educated whites (especially white men) are willing to follow Donald Trump off any cliff.…
In a desperate effort to make the numbers in the Inflation Reduction Act work, Senate negotiators threw in a 1% tax on…
There is an old saying that intellectuals have a hard time with new ideas. The pursuit of campaign finance reform by many…
I was glad to see Ezra Klein’s piece today touting the Biden administration’s creation of ARPA-H. This is the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Health, a…