Dean Baker - Dollars & Sense

Health Insurance for 20 Million is at Risk

If Congress fails to renew the ACA enhanced benefits, millions will be unable to access the health care they need.

John Miller Dec 11, 2025

Worsening inequality leaves young adults worse off than their parents.

John Miller Dec 8, 2025

While many mothers enjoy adequate support from fathers, the risk of financial hardship looms large if the partnership comes to an end.

Nancy Folbre Dec 4, 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

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