Topic: Dean Baker
Quotes
The increase in social spending is still relatively modest given the severity of the downturn
Benefit spending climbs in first quarter Jun 04, 2009
This is bad for taxpayers on both sides of the transaction
HUD program benefits investors, others Apr 12, 2009
Clearly you are going to have people moving down the pay scale
Job market shifting as recession sets in Nov 24, 2008
You would think (his record) would be a big strike against him
Fed hires Bear Sterns executive ... really Nov 04, 2008
Just as men have been disproportionately hit by the downturn, there has been a disproportionate improvement for women, especially white women
Older white women having best job luck Feb 06, 2010
Dean Baker (b. July 13, 1958) is an American macroeconomist and co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, with Mark Weisbrot. He previously was a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute and an assistant professor of economics at Bucknell University. He has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan.
Since 1996 Baker has been the author of a weekly online commentary on economic reporting. The Economic Reporting Review was published from 1996 to 2006; subsequently he has continued this commentary on his weblog Beat The Press, which was formerly published at The American Prospect, but is now located at the CEPR website.
Baker graduated from Swarthmore College (B.A., 1981), the University of Denver (M.A., 1983) and the University of Michigan (Ph.D.). As a grad student at the University of Michigan, Baker participated in, and was arrested at, two sit-ins protesting Rep. Carl Pursell's votes for military aid to the Contras. In 1986, Baker defeated Donald Grimes in the Democratic primary and ran unsuccessfully against Pursell to represent Michigan's second Congressional district.
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