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• OU’s College of Education enrollment numbers reflect gender gap

  Along with that, male teachers have a much larger wage penalty, which is teacher pay compared with the pay of other career opportunities for potential and current teachers, than female teachers. In 2017, female public school teachers made 15.6 percent less than comparable female workers, but male teachers made 26.8 percent less than comparable male workers, according to the Economic Policy Institute.

  OU Daily | February 13, 2019
• Omar garbles details of McDonald’s CEO and typical worker pay

  The Economic Policy Institute, a labor-oriented think tank, compares the pay of CEOs to typical workers. The institute estimated that in the United States, the typical CEO makes 312 times more than the average worker. Based on our analysis, the ratio at McDonald’s is about 1,786 to one.

  Politifact | February 13, 2019
• Only Mississippi has higher concentration of low-wage jobs than Nevada, report says

  Oxfam America’s report is based on an Economic Policy Institute Simulation Model using data from the Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Congressional Budget Office.

  The Nevada Current | February 13, 2019
• Another Giant Telecom Merger Could Kill Jobs and Leave Low-Income Consumers in the Lurch. It’s Happened Before.

  Now, consumer advocates worry that the same economic upheaval will be seen on a national scale if the T-Mobile and Sprint merger is approved. A December report from two left-leaning think tanks—the Economic Policy Institute and the Roosevelt Institute—found that the merger would suppress wages by up to $3,276 a year for all telecommunications workers in markets where T-Mobile and Sprint are most active. According to CWA estimates, the merger would kill up to 30,000 retail and headquarter jobs at T-Mobile and Sprint.

  Mother Jones | February 13, 2019
• Not So Supreme?

  Numerous empirical studies show that individual plaintiffs fare much worse before an arbitrator than they would before a real judge. A study by the Economic Policy Institute, for example, found that employees are far less likely to prevail before an arbitrator, and that they typically receive less money when they do prevail.

   

  American Prospect | February 13, 2019
• Former ICE Director Admits He’d Rather Jail Immigrants Than Prosecute White Collar Criminals

  A 2017 Economic Policy Institute study found that workers lose an estimate $8 billion a year to their employers through wage theft, a crime that’s rarely prosecuted.

  GQ Magazine | February 13, 2019
• New York Millionaires Tell Albany: Tax Us, Please

  The wealthiest 1 percent of New Yorkers control about 31 percent of the state’s income, according to data from the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington-based think tank. They also account for half of the state’s income taxes, according to Mr. Cuomo.

  The New York Times | February 13, 2019

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