The Washington Post
May 6, 2022
The NEA used the Economic Policy Institute’s family budget calculator to determine whether support staff make a living wage and found that on average, these employees would not be able to live in a metropolitan area and support themselves and one child without government assistance or another adult’s income.
Education Week
May 6, 2022
A 2021 report by the Economic Policy Institute said unionization in the cannabis industry could lead to safer jobs that pay between $2,810 to $8,690 more per year than in what it describes as a “low-road scenario,” where cannabis workers would have few to no workplace protections. Workers at unionized cannabis businesses also enjoyed more workplace benefits, including health care, paid leave and fairer scheduling practices.
Oregon Business
May 6, 2022
The Economic Policy Institute also found that Latinas earn 57 cents and Black women earn 65 cents for every dollar earned by white, non-Hispanic men.
ABC News
May 6, 2022
As a result, economists across the spectrum wonder if the Fed can control this bout of price spikes. Lawrence Mishel, a distinguished fellow at the Economic Policy Institute, says, “There’s a lot of reasons to think that inflation is transitory. It doesn’t mean it’s going to be two months, it could be a year, but it’s not going to be, you know, 4 or 5% a year for the next five years.” Leaders at the Fed have a long-term target of about 2% inflation.
CNBC
May 6, 2022
As Josh Bivens of the Economic Policy Institute notes, if one producer is temporarily sidelined, or otherwise forced to cut back production, this provides opportunities for competitors that are not as hampered to jump in with price increases.
In These Times
May 6, 2022
California parents need to cough up roughly $17,000 a year to pay for child care, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
EdSource
May 6, 2022
On average, unionized workers are paid over 11% more than their nonunionized counterparts, according to a study conducted by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). Kinder noted that the difference in wages between unionized and non-union drivers was evident in their analysis for companies like Amazon and FedEx (FDX).
Yahoo Money
May 6, 2022
The Economic Policy Institute, and other sources tracking job data, say Black unemployment in California remains higher than the statewide average.
Sacramento Observer
May 6, 2022
Dave Kamper, who researches labor as a senior state policy coordinator at the Economic Policy Institute, says “the number one tactic in the playbook of an anti-union employer is to play for time.” “A lot of these steps are handled by everyone just kind of agreeing to go ahead and take the next step,” he says of union certification. “But then if one side decides to back off of that agreement, you start all over again. And if your goal is simply to buy time, an employer has oodles of options.”
DCist
May 6, 2022