Dean Baker - Dollars & Sense

Mamdani Needs to Catch the Value Capture Bus

New York Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani has drawn both praise and sneers for his free bus proposal. As detailed

Polly Cleveland Sep 7, 2025

Most so-called pronatalist policies seriously underestimate the costs and risks of raising children in today’s economic environment.

Nancy Folbre Sep 2, 2025

An interview with Richard D. Wolff

Richard D. Wolff Aug 31, 2025

Dean Baker is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC.

3 articles

Issue 311

Many supporters of an increase in the minimum wage viewed projections of job loss in the recent report from the

Dean Baker Mar 1, 2014

Issue 257

Talk about irrational exuberance. Housing is the new bull market.

Dean Baker Jan 1, 2005

Issue 238

Now that the economy needs stimulus, why not insist that government spending shape economic development in socially beneficial ways? Now

Dean Baker Nov 1, 2001