The month-to-month economic readings for Black women and other minority groups can be particularly volatile due to smaller population size, according to Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute.
CNBC
February 11, 2022
Black workers, along with Hispanic and Asian-American ones, are more likely to get paid poverty-level wages than their white counterparts, according to a 2018 report by the Economic Policy Institute.
Business Insider
February 11, 2022
A new analysis is looking at one of the most pressing issues in our country: rising child care costs. According to the Economic Policy Institute, Arizona is one of 33 states where infant child care is more expensive than in-state college tuition. “It is definitely frustrating. It is frustrating on multiple factors because women end up being the brunt of it,” said Natacha Chavez.
AZ Family
February 11, 2022
“There’s just no valid argument, I think, for excluding agriculture,” said Daniel Costa, Director of Immigration Law and Policy Research at the Economic Policy Institute based in Washington, D.C.
Costa has worked at EPI for 11 years, looking specifically at the intersection of immigration and labor policy issues. The nonprofit, nonpartisan institute was established in 1986 to include the needs of low- and middle-income workers in economic policy discussions.
Statesman Journal
February 11, 2022
Well, we already know that the omicron wave has started to fade. You know, this was a very sharp spike but also a fairly short spike. And Elise Gould, who’s a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, says daily infections have already fallen by more than half from where they were in the middle of last month.
NPR Morning Edition
February 11, 2022
According to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), which first presented its research last week to a task force of the American Federation of Teachers, employment in public elementary and secondary schools decreased by nearly 5% overall from fall 2019 to fall 2021. The number of people employed as teachers fell by 6.8%, bus drivers by 14.6%, and custodians by 6%.
Common Dreams
February 11, 2022
According to a report by the Economic Policy Institute, teachers in the public high school sector made around 19.2 percent less than other types of workers who also went to college as of 2019. Teachers in the country have made less money on a consistent basis when compared to their counterparts in other fields, an exception being the 1960s.
Newsweek
February 11, 2022
“I don’t think anybody would dispute that we’re moving in the right direction,” said Valerie Wilson, labor economist at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. “That being the case, as we often see, there are pretty significant differences in terms of the pace of recovery by race and ethnicity.”
Washington Post
February 11, 2022
As of January 30, federal contract workers must be paid at least $15 an hour under an executive order Biden signed in April that was finalized by the Labor Department in November. The Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning nonprofit, estimated that the number of workers who got a raise when it took effect last month may have been as high as 390,000. That’s a substantial accomplishment.
New Republic
February 11, 2022
There are 2.9 million fewer jobs now than before the pandemic, but as Elise Gould of Economic Policy Institute points out, if you take population growth into account, the shortfall is 4.5 million.
The New York Times
February 11, 2022