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• August 19, 2022
  August 19, 2022
• Heidi Shierholz on Biden Administration Economic Policies

  Heidi Shierholz, president of the Economic Policy Institute, talked about the U.S. economy and the Biden administration’s economic policies.

  C-SPAN Washington Journal August 17, 2022
• Minimum Wages Are Going Up. Jobs May Disappear.

  Cites EPI data in a chart on minimum wage.

  Bloomberg August 12, 2022
• MALVEAUX!

  Features Kyle discussing the growing housing supply shortage has created a housing affordability crisis.

  WPFW August 12, 2022
• Teacher shortage seen growing in America

  Video: The Economic Policy Institute projected a demand for at least 300,000 new teachers nationwide by the year 2024.

  ABC News August 12, 2022
• Excess-profits tax: ‘Tamp down the price gouging’

  The Economic Policy Institute recommends a temporary excess-profits tax. Data from the Bureau of Economics show abnormally high corporate profits are causing 54% of recent inflation. This tax would be on corporate profits that are above normal, and that come from taking advantage of the pandemic and the war in Ukraine. The purpose is to tamp down the price gouging.

  Seattle Times August 12, 2022
• Despite a strong jobs report, unemployment inched higher for Black workers in July

  It’s difficult to decipher what contributed to that shift, said Valerie Wilson, director of the Economic Policy Institute’s program on race, ethnicity and the economy.

  CNBC August 12, 2022
• Massive jobs surprise: US economy added 528,000 jobs in July

  Wage growth “is certainly not accelerating in a way that is driving the kind of inflation we’re seeing in the economy,” said Elise Gould, senior economist with the Economic Policy Institute.

  CNN August 12, 2022
• ‘Gangbusters’ job growth adds more confusion to recession worries, economists say

  Average hourly earnings are up 0.5% for the month and 5.2% from the same time a year ago, though wage growth appears to be slowing, Heidi Shierholz, president of the Economic Policy Institute, wrote on Twitter.

  CNBC August 12, 2022
• Is soaring inflation worse than the recession the Fed may trigger by aggressively fighting it?
  A report Friday showed the economy added a booming 528,000 jobs in July, … of research at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. (paywall).
  USA Today August 12, 2022