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- Taxing Wall Street
Center for American Progress
Tuesday, February 9 at 9:00am - Dean Baker at UCLA/Hammer Foru...
The Hammer Museum/UCLA
Tuesday, February 2 at 7:00pm - Union Members in 2009 and Beyond
SEIU
Friday, January 29 at 12:00pm - Dean Baker Book Signing in DC
Busboys and Poets
Thursday, January 28 at 6:30pm - Dean Baker at University of Iowa
Main Library, Shambaugh Auditorium
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Carrousel du Louvre
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On the web
Monday, December 14 at 2:00pm - Health Care Reform and Interna...
American Enterprise Institute
Friday, December 11 at 9:00am - CEPR Annual Holiday Party
Public Citizen
Wednesday, December 9 at 5:30pm
A must-read article from the Washington Post today surveys the aid and relief efforts, noting there is still a dire need for more food, shelter, sanitation, medical supplies and equipment, crutches for amputees, post-operative care and rehabilitation, and much more. “Ev...ery day, tens of thousands of Haitians face a grueling quest to find food, any food....
Source:CEPR Feed
Published:2010-02-09 23:16:00 GMT
The Miami Herald reports today that at least two US firms, AshBritt Inc. and DRC group, are using powerful connections both inside Haiti and the US to try and secure contracts in the aftermath of the earthquake. As the Herald notes:
It's unclear at this point who will b...e awarding the cleanup contracts, but there is big money to be made in the rubble of some 225,000 collapsed homes and at least...
Source:CEPR Feed
Published:2010-02-09 20:40:00 GMT
Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Video from this morning's event - "Taxing Wall Street" - has now been posted. Featuring Dean Baker of CEPR, Michael Ettlinger of CAP, Greg Ip of the Economist and Ellen McCarthy of SIFMA.
www.americanprogress.org
Families across the country are struggling with declining incomes and high unemployment. Meanwhile, Wall Street is raking it in: This year they have seen their profit and bonuses return to the same levels ...
Center for Constitutional Rights legal director Bill Quigley breaks down the Haiti relief numbers today on Common Dreams, such as:1 million – the number of “people who have been given food by the UN World Food Program in Port au Prince – another million in Port au Princ...e still need help.”63,000 is the number of “pregnant women among the people displaced by the earthquake.”Bill notes that 7,000 tents have been “distributed...
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Published:2010-02-09 18:11:00 GMT
Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Jingoism and the Budget Deficit: Using Any Tactic to Advance the Budget Cutting Agenda
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The deficit hawks apparently believe that their case is so weak that they must resort to crass jingoism to push their agenda. NBC apparently intends to run a piece on the evening news on Tuesday that talks ...
Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Streaming LIVE NOW: Dean Baker at the Center for American Progress on taxes on financial speculation
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This event will take place as scheduled at CAP. If you are not able to attend due to weather, you can watch the event live here.
Mark WeisbrotThe Guardian Unlimited, February 8, 2010See article on original websiteLast week actors and human rights advocates Danny Glover and Harry Belafonte, along with the Reverend Jesse Jackson, sent a letter to Congress and the Obama Administration calling attent...ion to “serious mistakes that have unnecessarily delayed the delivery of medical supplies, water and other life-saving materials” to Haiti....
Source:CEPR Feed
Published:2010-02-09 01:07:00 GMT
Elaine Zuckerman, President of Gender Action and the former Inter-American Development Bank Programs Officer for Haiti, writes about what needs to be done to make sure that aid to Haiti does not repeat the mistakes of the past:To Help Haiti, Upend Aid Habits, and Focus ...on its Women By Elaine ZuckermanThe growing discourse around solving Haiti's many tragedies has, for the most part, ignored the unique plight of that nation's women,...
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Published:2010-02-09 00:57:00 GMT
Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Feb. 9 at 9am: Dean Baker at the Center for American Progress on taxes on financial speculation
www.americanprogress.org
This event will take place as scheduled at CAP. If you are not able to attend due to weather, you can watch the event live here.
Mark WeisbrotThe Guardian Unlimited, February 8, 2010
See article on original website
Last week actors and human rights advocates Danny Glover and Harry Belafonte, along with the Reverend Jesse Jackson, sent a letter to Congress and the Obama Administration calling at...tention to “serious mistakes that have unnecessarily delayed the delivery of medical supplies, water and other life-saving materials” to Haiti....
Source:CEPR Feed
Published:2010-02-08 22:53:00 GMT
Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Dean Baker discusses deficits and the economy tonight on the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. Tune in to your local NBC affiliate between 7:05 and 7:15 p.m. EST!
Tim Schwartz writes from the Haiti-D.R. border:
There are some things that should be known about DR dealing with Haiti.On the one hand, the Dominicans have made commendable efforts to help. The government send mobile food kitchens that are making 60,000 hot meals per d...ay. It was the earliest food distribution on the ground--day after the quake--and is the most efficient I have seen...
But Tim also notes:
But there is regretable profiteering as...
Source:CEPR Feed
Published:2010-02-08 22:42:00 GMT
The New York Immigration Coalition has compiled a list of resources for Haitians seeking TPS. The list includes upcoming legal clinics and non-profit legal service organizations. For the direct link, click here.
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Published:2010-02-08 18:41:00 GMT
In 2008 Oxfam reported that:
Less than 20 years ago, the country was nearly self-sufficient when it came to rice production. But in 1995, when the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund pressured Haiti to cut import tariffs on rice from 50 percent to 3 percent, ...cheap subsidized rice from the US began to flood into the country....
Source:CEPR Feed
Published:2010-02-08 18:17:00 GMT
In the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake, 15 organizations formed a coalition to help coordinate the relief and reconstruction efforts. The coalition is comprised of members both on the ground in Haiti as well as here in the US that have a long history working with Ha...itian partners. Please visit the Haiti Response Coalition website to read more about them and check on their "updates from the field"....
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Published:2010-02-08 18:10:00 GMT
