PERI Research

Household Production Time and Inequality in Material Living Standards in the U.S., 1965–2018

Leila Gautham and Nancy Folbre

Journal Article — March 2026

Is Human Well-Being Comparable with an AI Frenzy Driven by a Massive, Speculative Pursuit of Profit?

C.P. Chandrasekhar

Commentary — March 2026

Trump’s Economy Is Hurting Americans — and Setting Us up for Long-Term Collapse

Gerald Epstein

Commentary — March 2026

Unequal Gradients: Gender, Skin Tone, and Intergenerational Economic Mobility

Luis Monroy Gomez Franco, Roberto Vélez‑Grajales and Gastón Yalonetzky

Journal Article — February 2026

Finance in the Dark: The Unregulated Industry at the Heart of the American Economy

Lenore Palladino

Commentary — February 2026

The Crypto Chokehold

Gerald Epstein

Additional Research Study — February 2026

Selling Lies: The Attack on Social Security

John Miller

Commentary — February 2026

Compounded Vulnerability: Spatial Patterns of Energy Burden, Heat Exposure, and Pollution in New York City

Ximena Aristizabal and Paola Jaimes

PERI Working Paper Series — February 2026

The Political Economy of Racism: The Persistence of Anti-Blackness in the United States

Michelle Holder and Jeannette Wicks-Lim

Book — February 2026

U.S. Imperialism and U.S. Capitalism

Arthur MacEwan

Commentary — January 2026