CEPR Co-Director Dean Baker appeared as a guest on a recent episode of MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show" to discuss President-Elect Obama's stimulus plan.
The unemployment rate hit 7.2 percent in December as the nation shed 524,000 jobs. This brought the total job loss over the last three months of 2008 to 1,531,000, the highest 3-month total since the months immediately following World War II. Further analysis of the latest employment data in this month's Jobs Byte.
Bad Samaritans, the best-selling book from CEPR Senior Research Associate Ha-Joon Chang, is now available in the U.S. and the U.K. in paperback, and has also been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian.
