The widening gap is due largely to a kind of arms race between companies, which each believe “that their CEO should be compensated above average,” according to a CNBC interview with Lawrence Mishel, a distinguished fellow at the Economic Policy Institute. The practice ramped up in the 1990s, he told the outlet.
HR Dive
December 13, 2021
A new report by the prominent think tank Economic Policy Institute alleges that thousands of migrant IT workers on the H-1B visa program for high-skilled workers have been underpaid by a combined total of at least $95 million annually.
Vice News
December 13, 2021
“It is surprising to me there’s so little attention to very low unemployment, very historically low Black unemployment, very little receipt of unemployment insurance, unprecedented growth of jobs,” said Larry Mishel, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank.
New York Times
December 13, 2021
Employees may eventually regain some benefits from inflation, as supply-chain shortages that helped drive up prices ease, according to Josh Bivens, the director of research at the Economic Policy Institute. “We have gotten a lot of jobs back,” Bivens told DealBook. By next year, he says, “we will have the good parts of the employment market still working, and the bad parts of the supply chain worked out.”
New York Times
December 13, 2021
I talked to Elise Gould, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, about what we do and do not learn from these reports.
CNN
December 13, 2021
Lawrence Mishel, a distinguished fellow at the Economic Policy Institute, says, “There’s a lot of reasons to think that inflation is transitory. It doesn’t mean it’s going to be two months, it could be a year, but it’s not going to be, you know, 4 or 5% a year for the next five years.”
CNBC
December 13, 2021
WASHINGTON —The U.S. unemployment rate dropped 0.4% in November, to 4.2%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. But BLS, the Economic Policy Institute, and the Institute for Women’s Policy Research all noted mixed numbers behind that positive decline.
People’s World
December 10, 2021
WASHINGTON —The U.S. unemployment rate dropped 0.4% in November, to 4.2%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. But BLS, the Economic Policy Institute, and the Institute for Women’s Policy Research all noted mixed numbers behind that positive decline.
People’s World
December 10, 2021
Keep in mind, this is just talking about doctors. The pay gap exists for other medical professions too, such as nurses. Female nurses made nearly 8% less than male nurses, according to research from the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank.
MarketWatch
December 9, 2021
As unemployment rates spiked during the pandemic, states turned to federal loans to fund their unemployment insurance programs. Researchers at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) have found that 16 states have used ARP funds to pay off these debts, after 23 states had already used CARES Act funds to bolster their unemployment insurance trust funds. Overall, 33 states from Texas to Connecticut have used federal COVID relief funds to pay off unemployment insurance trust fund debts.
American Prospect
December 9, 2021