When Congress was debating the Medicare drug benefit in 2003, there were many who advocated that Medicare provide the benefit as part of the traditional hospital insurance program. This was expected to save money both due to lower administrative costs and also as result of Medicare’s ability...

This report compares the ownership and rental costs in 100 major U.S. metropolitan areas. Extending the work from a previous CEPR/NLIHC paper, "The Cost of Maintaining Ownership in the Current Crisis: Comparisons in 20 Cities," this study, while demonstrating the wide diversity in housing...

This paper shows that wage inequality poses a much larger economic burden on most workers than any tax hikes that may be needed to keep Social Security solvent.

According to this report, many African American men will not be able to pass along to heirs the private accounts that they would receive under President Bush's Social Security plan because they would be required to turn them into annuities when they retired.

Hurricane Katrina left a wake of deadly destruction that will require an expensive clean-up. This paper examines how reconstruction could be funded by the windfall profits from oil companies.

Much has been written in this business cycle regarding the rapid increases in productivity and the stagnant growth in wages. From the peak of the last business cycle in the first quarter of 2001 to the second quarter of 2006, productivity increased by 17.9 percent, an average growth rate of 3.2...

This paper calculated rates of return for wage earners corresponding to Social Security Administration's definition of low-, medium-, high- and maximum-earners. It finds that the "progressive indexation" proposal endorsed by President Bush would reduce the rate of returns that most workers would...

This brief paper presents data and a chart depicting the growing divide between home prices and rental prices over the last 50 years.

This paper examines the economic policies of the Clinton presidency and their lasting effects on the U.S. economy.

The paper cites nine disturbing trends that will result in devastating human and environmental costs by 2052, when the Congressional Budget Office projects that Social Security will first see a shortfall.