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• Report: More than 70% of corporations in Colorado aren’t paying state corporate income tax

  The liberal Economic Policy Institute surveyed seven states and found more than 60% of corporations weren’t paying income tax in each of them.

  9 News (Colorado TV) April 15, 2022
• SEIU members rally for ‘Babies before Bezos’

  An Economic Policy Institute report published Thursday shows from 2015 to 2018, 69 percent of Illinois corporations paid no state corporate income taxes.

  Chicago Sun Times April 15, 2022
• N.J. Department of Education partners with Rowan to recruit more men of color as teachers

  According to a 2019 Economic Policy Institute Report, Black and low-income children are more likely to experience adverse childhood experiences that lead to “disrupted physiological functioning” and “depressed academic achievement.”

  WHYY April 15, 2022
• Labor unions have a place in Utah

  Workers who are under a union contract earn 10.2% more than non-unionized workers within the same occupational and educational demographics according to the Economic Policy Institute.

  Salt Lake Tribune April 15, 2022
• Corporations aren’t paying fair share in taxes according to an Economic Policy Institute report

  You see the money come out of every paycheck that pays your income taxes, but a nationwide oversight agency is reporting that corporations often aren’t paying their fair share.

  The Economic Policy Institute, along with Illinois, Connecticut, Wisconsin, Florida, Michigan, Tennessee, and Colorado are calling for reforms in their state governments to get corporations, especially large ones like Amazon and Comcast, to pay their share of the taxes.

  Nationwide, the institute argued the lack of corporate tax income created a revenue shortfall of $43 to $57 billion between 1989 and 2017.

  “Tax revenues are critical to the ability of state and local governments to provide basic services to their residents. However, in recent decades state and local policymakers have consistently allowed corporations to reduce their share of taxes,” report author and EPI Director of Research Josh Bivens said. “These policy decisions should be reversed to ensure profitable businesses pay their fair share in taxes.”

  HOI-TV (Illinois) April 15, 2022
• I Worked My Ass Off for the Kardashian-Jenner Apps. I Couldn’t Afford Gas.

  This disparity between worker output and income is in line with a nationwide trend. Between 1979 and 2019, worker productivity grew 59.7 percent, but wages increased only 15.8 percent. Instead of going towards worker paychecks, the value of their increased productivity flowed up the corporate ladder to executive salaries, stock options, and bonuses. In 1978, according to the Economic Policy Institute, the ratio of CEO-to-worker wages was 31-to-1; as of 2020, it’s 351-to-1. That’s a 1,322 percent increase for CEO pay in 42 years.

  VICE April 15, 2022
• NY Farmworker Overtime Laws Are Changing, But Only at a Snail’s Pace

  The example of California suggests such a conservative approach is not necessary.  After overtime was expanded, California actually saw a small increase in the number of agricultural establishments, according to research by Daniel Costa, of the Economic Policy Institute.

  In sum, “There are no smoking guns out there showing that [overtime] will (or is) destroying the industry in any way,” Costa told me.

  The Indypendent April 15, 2022
• Two Cities Pay Teachers Based on Their Quality. Does It Work?

  When most people think of measuring teacher quality, they likely think of test scores. But expert groups, including the Economic Policy Institute, have warned against putting too much weight on test scores when evaluating teachers. D.C.’s IMPACT model “critically keyed in on something that teachers actually control, which is the character of their day-to-day practice in the classroom,” Dee says.

  EdSurge April 15, 2022
• One Way to Get a Higher Social Security Payout: Use Your Savings

  But the idea of the 401(k) bridge has been slow to catch on, even among the large number of people who decided during the pandemic to retire early. One reason is that it’s so new; the generation for which the 401(k) replaced the pension that most workers once enjoyed but barely 1 in 5 still get is only now entering retirement, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Retirement account savings overtook pension fund assets in 2012, the institute reports.

   
  AARP April 15, 2022
• What Amazon and Starbucks Don’t Let Us Know

  Terri Gerstein is the director of the State and Local Enforcement Project at the Harvard Law School Labor and Worklife Program and a senior fellow at the Economic Policy Institute.

  The American Prospect April 15, 2022