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Saturday, February 6, 2010

The US Fiscal Deficit: Scare Stories vs. Reality

The Real News
February 6, 2010

Robert Pollin: There are ways to cut the deficit without freezing social spending

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Robert Pollin is Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. He is the founding co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI). His research centers on macroeconomics, conditions for low-wage workers in the US and globally, the analysis of financial markets, and the economics of building a clean-energy economy in the US. His books include

A Measure of Fairness: The Economics of Living Wages and Minimum Wages in the US




Con
tours of Descent: US Economic Fractures and the Landscape of Global Austerity.