Media clips

• More cities seek to redress widespread 20th-century destruction of Black neighborhoods

  Historian Richard Rothstein, a housing policy expert at the Economic Policy Institute, draws a direct line between discriminatory government housing policies of the 20th century and the low Black homeownership rates in the United States today.

  Washington Post February 11, 2022
• Here’s what makes a jobs report ‘shocking’
  I’ve talked about previous reports with Elise Gould, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, including what we do and do not learn from these reports. She said they need to be viewed as pieces of information, not the full picture, in part because the surveys can overstate things and miss the changing composition of the workforce.
  CNN February 11, 2022
• Congress just passed an extremely important bill protecting victims of sexual misconduct

  Cites EPI graph on arbitration and litigation. 

  VOX February 11, 2022
• Why do CEOs get paid so much?

  CEO pay has skyrocketed 1,322% since 1978: CEOs were paid 351 times as much as a typical worker in 2020 from the Economic Policy Institute

  Marketplace February 11, 2022
• Inflation eroded pay by 1.7% over the past year

  “You’re seeing it beat inflation, just barely,” said Elise Gould, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank.

  CNBC February 11, 2022
• Secretive courts still popular with companies

  More than half of nonunion, private sector employees — or about 60 million workers — were subject to mandatory arbitration as of a 2018 report from the progressive Economic Policy Institute.

  Axios February 11, 2022
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• Hearst TV -Jobs Report

  Features Elise discussing the latest jobs report.

  Hearst TV February 11, 2022
• Hearst TV -Jobs Report

  Features Elise discussing the latest jobs report.

  Hearst TV February 11, 2022
• 5 things: Biden Administration wants unionized, full-time school cafeteria workers

  Meanwhile, a new report released recently by the Economic Policy Institute that interprets data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics suggests two reasons for why school support jobs are not rebounding: the first being that workers in those roles tend to skew older—50.4% of cafeteria workers are 50 and over—and are therefore more likely to have serious COVID-19-related health concerns, and support staff wages in public K-12 schools are below industry standards, as the median weekly wage for cafeteria workers between 2014 and 2019 was $331, while the average American worker earned $790.

   
  Food Management February 11, 2022