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Friday, March 6, 2020
Researchers at MIT Affirm: No Evidence to Support OAS’s Suggestions of Fraud in Bolivian Elections
New analysis of Bolivia’s October elections, and the OAS’s publications on them, by Jack Williams and John Curiel, researchers at the MIT Election Data and Science Lab, has reopened international debate and been widely discussed in the media. The study, which CEPR commissioned and has posted in full here, determines: “it is very likely that Morales won the required 10 percentage point margin to win in the first round of the election on October 20, 2019.” Williams and Curiel replicate findings CEPR published in November.
“Argentine President Alberto Fernández said the report’s findings justified his continued support for Morales,” Reuters reported. “We demand the prompt democratization of #Bolivia, with the full participation of the Bolivian people and without prescriptions of any kind,” he Tweeted.
Mark Weisbrot said: “The OAS greatly misled the media and the public about what happened in Bolivia's elections, and helped to foster a great deal of mistrust in the electoral process and the results.”
“The OAS seems to have made statements regarding the preliminary election results without basis in fact,” Williams says. Evo Morales “appears to have been heading toward a first-round victory prior to the interruption of the preliminary count.”
“It is obvious from this report that simply tweaking the system is not enough.”
CEPR’s new report on hospital consolidation in Colorado shows the damage it causes and the cascading harm that follows – to health care insurers, patients, and communities. Colorado’s hospital systems are a microcosm of what is broken in America’s health care system.“The incentives of all the players in the system are pointed away from quality, accessible, and affordable health care for all,” said Jared Gaby-Biegel, author of the report.
The coronavirus has quickly revised the economic outlook. When stock markets plunged last week, Mark Weisbrot reminded Buzzfeed, "the stock market is not the economy, and it shouldn’t be treated so much as such." In the Washington Post, Dean Baker and Jared Bernstein penned a checklist of things the US can do to prepare the economy for a global pandemic. Vox and the New York Times have quoted CEPR research and Eileen Appelbaum on how the US is uniquely vulnerable because it is the only advanced economy with no federally mandated paid sick leave policy. The loss of a paycheck is a powerful incentive to work when urged to stay home.
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) asked for ideas for a new poverty measure and Shawn Fremstad eagerly responded. A long-time critic of the outdated poverty measure, Fremstad suggests an alternative could “set the poverty threshold equal to 60 percent of median equivalized disposable income.”
CEPR’s Revolving Door Project has expanded and is pleased to announce the launch of its first-ever dedicated web home. This new website makes it easier than ever to learn about this groundbreaking project. Visit www.therevolvingdoorproject.org to see a record of much of the project’s work since its founding, including blog posts, op-eds, public comments, letters, and FOIA requests. Also, be sure to check out the Revolving Door Project and the Demand Progress Education Fund’s newly-launched Agency Spotlight, which is easily accessible from our new homepage. And, finally, don't leave without signing up for the project's regular newsletter!"
“An honest accounting of the violence in Haiti must also address the political and economic elite...”
“An honest accounting of the violence in Haiti must also address the political and economic elite who sponsor these violent outbursts with arms, money, and protection — a phenomenon that transcends political affiliation,” Kira Paulemon writes for Haiti Relief and Reconstruction Watch.
The Trump administration is requesting $200 million dollars “to address the crisis in Venezuela,” including for regime change. This represents a twenty-two-fold increase from the administration’s FY 2020 request. Read Cavan Kharrazian’s post for The Americas Blog.
“Honesty will … be a precondition for any leader serious about addressing the roots causes of migration. And it might help explain why, in Nevada at least, Sanders received more than 50 percent of the Latino vote,” Jake Johnston writes in a post examining how Democratic candidates are, or aren’t, discussing US policies that have destabilized Latin American countries.
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