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GRITtv: Dean Baker: Budget Cuts are Killing Jobs

Dean Baker explains that cutting government spending is exactly the wrong way to go about fixing the economy right now--and that people advocating budget cuts are advocating throwing people out of work. Watch the full interview at http://grittv.org! Distributed by Tubemogul.

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GRITtv: Dean Baker: The Deficit is the Wrong Problem

"It's the wrong answer to not a problem," says Dean Baker of the report out last week from the leaders of Obama's deficit commission, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson. The report, which recommends massive cuts across the budget, most significantly to Social Security and health care programs, has been roundly criticized by progressives for its targeting, but Dean notes that the biggest problem with it is that without the health care crisis we still have, we wouldn't have deficits in the first...

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Briefing: Dean Baker on Boosting the Economy by Saving Healthcare

Last week, a report by the leader's of Obama's deficit commission, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, recommended massive cuts across the budget, most significantly to Social Security and health care programs. But according to Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, the report is "the wrong answer to not a problem." The report has now been roundly criticized by progressives for its seemingly-targeted cuts, but according to Dean, the real cause of the deficit...

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