“We have an incredibly corrupt corporate governance structure,” Dean Baker, senior economist at CEPR, explains how US CEOs make more money than in any other wealthy country & how the market could be restructured to produce less inequality.
Full article:
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The ideal CEPR Comms Director will have a track record of developing innovative, data-driven media strategies that shape public discourse.

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📑Our senior economist, Dean Baker, analyzes the latest #JobsReport .

With 175,000 new jobs in April, here is what Dean Baker has to say about the situation in the US labor market.

Read the full report here: cepr.net/april-jobs-rev…

📊 The #April #JobsReport is out, and it shows a hiring and wage growth slow, while unemployment jumped📈.

The US labor market added 175,000 new jobs in April.

Read the full report here:
bls.gov/news.release/p…

🚩The MAGA movement empowered a potential Trump reelection, doesn’t want to ‘drain’ the swamp—they want to GROW the swamp.

…at the expense of thousands of Black middle-class workers.

Algernon Austin @[email protected]’s #JobsReport is out: bit.ly/BlackJobsThreat

We need a comms pro with proven success strategically promoting policy work.

Experienced media relations gurus with strong writing skills should apply by 5/23!

This job is remote, union, and has great benefits.
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Seems appropriate to post this on May Day

Public sector union membership stood at a robust 32.5% in 2023, Hayley Brown Emma Curchin report.

But private sector rate lagged far behind at just 6.0% - a massive 5x gap. Wide geographic variation too as we mark #MayDay2024 .

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📢MAGA attacks on federal agencies/offices/departments could replace 50K MORE people than in a normal transition.

Black middle-class workers are particularly vulnerable.

Algernon Austin @[email protected]’s unpacks how a MAGA government could impact Black workers:
bit.ly/BlackJobsThreat

#News Lens: CEPR study outlines urgent solutions to break the debt cycle & support countries climate and development needs👇

✅sovereign debt restructuring mechanism
✅new sustainable sources of financing
✅new #SDRs allocation
✅ #StopImfSurcharges

cepr.net/report/the-ris…

Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla David Adler Ernesto Samper Pizano UN Trade and Development Fadhel Kaboub فاضل قابوب Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity - GISP Cecilia Rikap Marlon South Africa 🇿🇦 at the UN 🇺🇳 Adriana Erthal Abdenur Mark Weisbrot CEPR Jason Rosario Braganza AFRODAD Niclas Hällström Guillaume Long Ndongo Samba Sylla/nssylla.bsky.social Gerardo Torres Zelaya Michael Galant Kai Koddenbrock Daniel Rojas Medellin Giuliano Garavini ☮︎ Merle Schulken Isabella M. Weber Amir Lebdioui José Miguel Ahumada J K Galbraith Attiya Waris 'The exorbitant awards established in the international arbitration system (ISDS) constitute a heavy burden on the Global South...It is necessary for Global South governments to organise public commissions to denounce the perversity of the ISDS system.'
christian pino g at #NIEO50 .

Check out our new report on the growing debt crisis & unequal international financial architecture blocking development and climate progress around the world. Lara Merling Lorena Valle Cuéllar

High debt service costs limit developing nations' ability to invest in climate & development needs, creating a vicious cycle that:

⭕️ Blocks progress on climate & #SDGs
⭕️ Increases vulnerability to climate & economic shocks
⭕️ Keeps countries in debt
bit.ly/CostofDebt

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We are hiring a domestic Communications Director to own our print, digital, and broadcast media strategy.

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For more than a decade we've fought to raise wages and standards for low-wage workers across the country.

We've won raises for millions of workers, and developed new ways for workers to represent and empower ourselves!.

We continue that fight today. We Fight For A Union!

The Fight for $15 is changing its name to Fight for a Union

NEW: The US jobs recovery surpassed expectations with ✨5.8M more workers ✨employed above its pre-pandemic level.

The CBO thought we'd only see this many jobs by 2029, but the labor market said, 'Hold my beer.'

Dean Baker and Alex Richwine explain:
cepr.net/job-growth-sin…

Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla David Adler Ernesto Samper Pizano UN Trade and Development Fadhel Kaboub فاضل قابوب Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity - GISP Cecilia Rikap Marlon South Africa 🇿🇦 at the UN 🇺🇳 Adriana Erthal Abdenur “We don’t have to wait for the US government to change course. Governments and civil society organisations can challenge, and have challenged, the decisions of the US.”

Mark Weisbrot Co-director, Center for Economic & Policy Research CEPR. #NIEO50