Dean Baker
Dean Baker
Dean Bakeris an American macroeconomist and co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, with Mark Weisbrot. He has been 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...
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Gore is keeping the existing system in place because it works -- using the budget surplus to add to the Social Security trust fund. So what's the point in dismantling it,
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The trustees' projections continue to show that the major threat to the economic well-being of future generations is rising health-care costs.
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If home prices level off, that can knock down growth by 1 or 2 percentage points, from 3.5 percent to 1.5 percent.
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The idea that we have to make cuts imminently because of the Baby Boomer generation is simply not true. We knew about Boomers and adjusted the program accordingly. Greenspan is really off the mark.