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As part of his health care package, President Obama proposed creating an independent commission of medical experts that would determine the medical…
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.
When her husband was in the oval office Laura Bush launched an initiative to promote literacy across the country. Unfortunately, there was…
Last month, when Congress failed to pass a bankruptcy reform measure that would have allowed home mortgages to be modified in bankruptcy,…
The House’s passage of the Waxman-Markey bill raises the possibility that the United States will finally do something on global warming. This…
This is the time when the excrement starts hitting the fan. The lobbyists are in overdrive, rounding up members of Congress just…
[Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications] As every backcountry hiker recognizes, you must first know where you…
For Immediate Release: June 17, 2009 Contact: Alan Barber, (202) 293-5380 x115 Washington, D.C.– There are many useful features of President Obama’s…
To my knowledge, no one has proposed waterboarding the Fed. However, the response of much of the country’s political leadership to the…
Suppose that people in the United States paid twice as much for our cars as people in Canada, Germany, and every other…
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says that we don’t need to bail out the banks anymore based on the results of his stress…