There’s evidence of that gap in the numbers: CEO pay has skyrocketed by 1,322% since 1978, the Economic Policy Institute reported last year; …(paywall).
Fortune
August 19, 2022
A report published by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) on Tuesday finds that, while there has long been a pay gap between teachers and comparable college graduates, that gap has recently reached its highest level since EPI began recording such data.
Truthout
August 19, 2022
That’s according to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute, which advocates for fair pay for low- and middle-income workers.
Axios
August 19, 2022
In 2015, the year Price cut his pay, the nation’s CEOs were collecting 276 times the annual pay of the typical worker, according to the Economic Policy Institute. A 2021 analysis found that gap has widened, to 351 times as much as the average worker. Compensation for top executives has soared nearly 1,300 percent in he past four decades, after adjusting for inflation. The study found that average pay for top businesses leaders at the country’s 350 largest companies was $24.2 million in 2020, when the realized value of stock options are factored in.
The Washington Post
August 19, 2022
Still, the “teacher pay penalty,” the reality that teachers are paid less than their non-teacher college-educated counterparts, has gotten worse over time. A new study from the Economic Policy Institute, an independent nonprofit think tank, found that the weekly wages of teachers have remained relatively flat for nearly three decades.
VOX
August 19, 2022
A report by the Economic Policy Institute published a report highlighting pay disparity between teachers and college-educated nonteachers. Colorado was the worst.
9 News (Colorado TV)
August 19, 2022
“We have a supply-side problem, but rather than trying to restore or raise supply-side capacity the Fed is aiming to push demand down to the level where supply is currently constrained by pandemic, war, and climate crises,” noted Adam Hersh, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute.
Truthout
August 19, 2022
Arizona teachers made about 32% less than comparable college-educated workers in the state last year, according to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI).
Axios
August 19, 2022
Driving the news: A group of 70 international economists, including Joe Stiglitz of Columbia and Heidi Shierholz of the Economic Policy Institute, is urging the U.S. government to give the Afghan central bank its money back — but there’s no indication that anyone at Treasury is sympathetic.
- What they’re saying: “Without access to its foreign reserves, the central bank of Afghanistan cannot carry out its normal, essential functions. Without a functioning central bank, the economy of Afghanistan has, predictably, collapsed. The people of Afghanistan have been made to suffer doubly for a government they did not choose.”
Axios
August 19, 2022
Larry Mishel, former president of the Economic Policy Institute. Labor market economist studying jobs, wages and inequality for four decades. (@LarryMishel)
WBUR On Point
August 19, 2022