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Apple CEO Tim Cook's Corporate Tax Idea Would Increase Offshoring of Jobs
Appelbaum is a senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. A "territorial" tax system – in which overseas profits of U.S. corporations would be lightly taxed in the U.S. or not taxed at all – is likely to be the top tax reform proposal from U.S. News & World Report Read more »
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Bill ensures paid family leave for Calif. workers
angering their employers or hurting their chances at promotion. They cited a 2011 study by the left-leaning Center for Economic and Policy Research based in Washington, D.C. "This is a right that employees pay into," said Sen. Mark DeSaulnier, D-Concord, the from Fresno Bee Read more »
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Signs of new housing bubble in several areas
for another six months, we will have a bubble, and people will get hurt," Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research recently told Bloomberg . The housing market may or may not be approaching bubble territory , but a handful of from Fortune Read more »
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Peruvians Petition their President to Stick Up for their Digital Rights
Baker, a macroeconomist and co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, wrote on AlJazeera.com: “Rather, these deals [TPP and the US-European Union Free Trade Agreement] are about securing regulatory gains for major corporate interests. In some from techPresident Read more »
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Third World America
for Economic and Policy Research co-director Dean Baker calls poverty America's "new growth industry." The state of today's America is deplorable. In his latest May 3 analysis, economist John Williams said "April "employment and unemployment data were nonsense: from The Market Oracle Read more »
