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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.
In this escalating way of words between the United States and North Korea, the people of Korea, the United States, and the world will have to count on Kim Jong‐un to show restraint
Not highlighting the distributional aspects of our policy on intellectual property is an enormous failure of the media even using the real numbers
The pharmaceutical industry and its allies would like us to believe that if the government touches the research process, it wrecks it
Contrary to the stories of a death spiral, the number of people getting insurance through the exchanges is actually increasing
When he talks about his efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, President Trump almost always asserts that Obamacare is “exploding.” Republican…
There are many areas in which the French government could implement policies that would both boost growth and reduce unemployment and inequality
The Federal Reserve’s interest rate hike will slow jobs growth, but is probably being done to please Wall Street
The most important of these battles has been the drive for an increase in the minimum wage
At a time when an ever-larger share of national income is going to the richest 1 percent, and large segments of the…