The Economic Policy Institute says on average, teachers earn 19.2% less than comparable graduates.
LEX 18 News
April 22, 2022
Taxes can and should be fairer. If there is a chief flaw in our tax system, it is the way it has grown increasingly regressive in recent decades. North Carolina, for instance – a state in which the system is still better than some that don’t even include an income tax – the richest one percent pays only about half as much of their incomes in state and local taxes as low- and middle-income people. As a recent report from the Economic Policy Institute also makes clear, a big part of the problem has been the “growing erosion of state corporate income taxes has been a prime source of revenue weakness over this time.”
NC Policy Watch
April 22, 2022
A new report by the Economic Policy Institute reveals the breadth of the problem. In Tennessee, more than 60% of corporations pay zero dollars in state corporate income taxes.
The Tennessean
April 22, 2022
Taxes were due on Monday for individuals and many corporations. But a new report from the Economic Policy Institute suggests many corporations in Connecticut may not be paying much at all.
CT Public Radio
April 22, 2022
A new study by the Economic Policy Institute shows that the effective state and local tax rate on corporate profits shrunk by between a third and a half between 1989 and 2017. This has a resulted in a revenue loss “estimated to be at least $43 billion and possibly as high as $57 billion.”
Urban Milwaukee
April 22, 2022
In a new report from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), over 60 percent of corporations in Connecticut, Illinois, Michigan, Tennessee and Wisconsin paid zero state corporate income taxes in varying periods between 2015 and 2019. In Colorado, 71 percent of corporations didn’t pay income taxes between 2017 and 2019, and in Florida, a whopping 92 percent of corporations paid zero income taxes between 2016 and 2019.
Truthout
April 22, 2022
According to new research from the Economic Policy Institute, the effective state and local tax rate on corporate profits dwindled by between a third and a half between 1989 and 2017, resulting in a revenue shortfall between $43 billion and $57 billion.
Counterpunch
April 22, 2022
The Detroit News
April 22, 2022
An alarming report from the Economic Policy Institute that was released April 14 has state taxpayers extremely frustrated
Fox 17
April 22, 2022
Ten states have or are planning to institute a mandatory minimum wage of $15 an hour, and plenty of companies, hoping to lure workers, already pay that much. Still, not every employer has met what many think of as a more-realistic living wage. According to the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank, these major chains have the largest percentages of workers making less than $15 an hour.
Cheapism
April 22, 2022