"There's really nothing in [the OAS's] latest so-called preliminary audit that shows that there was any fraud in this election. But it was repeated over and over again," Weisbrot told Democracy Now. The coup came after "The Trump administration and the OAS...tried — without offering any evidence — to discredit Bolivia's national election in the past couple of weeks," Weisbrot wrote at The Nation.

CEPR's Andrea M. Beaty and Shawn Fremstad prepared a report comparing rental housing and homelessness policies expressed or proposed by most of the presidential candidates of the two major parties. This report documents the candidates' positions on a broad range of rental housing policy, including affordabilty, housing assistance, tenant protections, discrimination, and homelessness. In addition, it outlines the current funding levels of selected federal housing and homelessness programs.

Inflation inequality is one more reason the US must update its poverty measure, writes Shawn Fremstad. Citing research by the Groundwork Collaborative, Fremstad notes that the US "is the only country in the world…using a poverty line set over half a century ago and since then only adjusted for inflation." 

Eileen Appelbaum will be a featured presenter at The Hidden Costs of Healthcare, a special two-hour event hosted by the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET). The event draws attention to important, but overlooked, factors contributing to rising healthcare costs, including groundbreaking research from Appelbaum and Rosemary Batt into the role private equity firms play in surprise medical billing.

The event is tomorrow, November 15, starting at 10 am, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. This is a public event, but please register here.

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The Revolving Door Project (RDP), a project of CEPR, now has a newsletter and its own official Twitter account. Every two weeks, the newsletter will give you an update on how the executive branch is promoting economic inequality, what Congress is or isn't doing in response, and whether 2020 presidential candidates would be any better. Subscribe to the RDP newsletter and follow @revolvingdoorDC on Twitter.

Newsletter:
Less Drowsy Congress Still Less Observant than Bank Lobbyists
November 6, 2019

RDP Highlights:

Dems Must Confront GOP Attacks On Independent Agencies
by Max Moran

Freshman Democrats Seek to Make Corporate Oversight Routine Again
by Eleanor Eagan

New York Magazine, quoting Eileen Appelbaum, The Senseless Death of Deadspin

BBC World News, interviewing Mark Weisbrot, The Bolivian Elections

New York Times, quoting Dean Baker, Bill Gates, I Implore You to Connect Some Dots

CNN, citing CEPR, Bolivia's Evo Morales on Plane to Mexico Amid Political Crisis

Thom Hartmann Program, interviewing Guillaume Long, Right Wing Oligarchs Behind Bolivian Coup Exposed!

Inflation Inequality and the Poverty Measure

by Shawn Fremstad

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