You know, I was looking for headlines about teacher shortages. And I saw one headline, “The Teacher Shortage is Real, Large, and Growing and Worse than we Thought.” That was from the Economic Policy Institute. That was from 2019. And I would imagine things have only gotten worse over the course of the pandemic with school shutdowns, et cetera. Are we at the most acute point ever in terms of teacher dissatisfaction?
Yahoo Finance
July 15, 2022
In 2019, teachers earned 19.2 percent less than workers with comparable education and experience, according to the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute.
The Washington Post
July 15, 2022
Public education funding should be reformed to provide automatic federal support for schools during economic downturns, according to a July 12 report from the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank.
K-12 Dive
July 15, 2022
The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) found nearly 54% of recent inflation can be attributed to corporate profits in contrast to the 11.4% base that corporate profits had on rising pricing between 1979 and 2019.
The Tennessee Tribune
July 15, 2022
According to research by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), the teacher shortage could reach 200,000 by 2025, up from 110,000 in 2018. This shortage of workers is due to a number of factors. Among them are pay, working conditions, lack of support, lack of autonomy, and the changing curriculum.
Foundation for Economic Education
July 15, 2022
The reasons Black Americans have higher jobless rates than whites fall into several categories. The Economic Policy Institute reports that among the primary reasons are “racism” and single adult households where one person tries to care for children and hold a full-time job at the same time.
24/7 Wall St.
July 15, 2022
While monthly changes in the jobs report highlight ongoing discrepancies in the recovery and overall employment market, Valerie Wilson, director of the Economic Policy Institute’s program on race, ethnicity and the economy, cautions against drawing broad conclusions as results can shift with sampling.
CNBC
July 15, 2022
This spark has hit particularly dry kindling. As a wave of unionization sweeps across retail, dollar store workers are organizing to fight back against some of the harshest conditions in the sector. Employees across the country work in dollar stores that are understaffed and sometimes unsafe. They have had to deal with rat infestations, broken air conditioners in the summer heat, and even workplace violence. The wages are also among the lowest in retail. According to the Economic Policy Institute and The Shift Project, 92 percent of Dollar General employees make less than $15 an hour.
American Prospect
July 15, 2022
After the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court, the connection between abortion rights and labor rights is acutely clear—both are under attack by right-wing activists, who see abortions and unions as threats to the patriarchy. In response to the ruling, a number of states have rushed to pass legislation to shore up access to abortion care. But should we be having a more comprehensive discussion about the economic effects of abortion bans? We spoke with Asha Banerjee of the Economic Policy Institute about what the fall of Roe means for workers.
Dissent Magazine
July 15, 2022
Information obtained by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) from seven states reveals more than 60 percent of corporations operating there pay no state income tax. Some of these no-tax paying corporations were highly profitable, yet between 11 percent and 27 percent with over $1 billion in federal taxable income pay nothing or next to nothing in income taxes. We don’t know what these figures are in Maine because the data hasn’t been made public — but it should be.
Maine Beacon
July 15, 2022