The average cost of infant care in South Carolina is $584 per month, which is less than half of the average monthly cost in Greenville County, according to the Economic Policy Institute report.
Gannett
November 5, 2021
To Kate Bronfenbrenner, the director of labor education research at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, these targeted tactics feel like punching down in an already unfair fight. Although a 2017 study from the Economic Policy Institute found that 48% of nonunionized Americans “would join a union tomorrow” and a separate 2020 Gallup poll found 65% of Americans favor unions, union membership is on the decline.
Morning Brew
November 5, 2021
Meanwhile, the United States, like all nations, is struggling to recover from job losses, income losses and business losses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Last year, the Economic Policy Institute reported that a $2 trillion-dollar investment in clean energy, energy efficiency, and infrastructure in various states would help economies recover and rebuild in ways that do not exacerbate climate change. Clean-energy investments would generate, for example.
NC Policy Watch
November 5, 2021
“When the history books look back on this, they’re going to realize that this was a pivotal moment for women in the U.S. economy because now there was enough of an understanding of all of the issues that women have faced fully participating in the labor force,” Elise Gould, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, told Healthcare Dive.
Healthcare Dive
November 5, 2021
The Economic Policy Institute reports the average annual cost of infant care in the state is $9,480 — more than the cost of a year of in-state, four-year college tuition.
WRAL.com
November 5, 2021
Child care costs vary widely from state to state. In Georgia, it costs $8,530 on average annually to enroll an infant in child care, according to a report from the Economic Policy Institute. In Massachusetts, the average annual cost for infant child care is $20,913.
Healthcare Dive
November 5, 2021
Even before the pandemic, many providers struggled to meet basic needs. Child care workers make, on average, less than $14 an hour, according to the Economic Policy Institute, far less than they can earn working at Target, Starbucks or in many fast food restaurants. Workers also tend to lack benefits like health insurance, family leave and paid sick leave
The Hechinger Report
November 5, 2021
As a result, providers often end up passing costs along to parents via higher tuition rates, risking pricing out all but the highest earners. By the time the pandemic hit, the average cost of child care for toddlers had topped $8,500 a year in Arizona, according to the Economic Policy Institute, while infant care averaged nearly $11,000 annually. That’s more than base tuition at an in-state college.
Arizona Public Media
November 5, 2021
Julia Wolfe, Janelle Jones, and David Cooper, “‘Fair workweek’ laws help more than 1.8 million workers” (Washington: Economic Policy Institute, 2018), available at https://www.epi.org/publication/fair-workweek-laws-help-more-than-1-8-million-workers/. David Cooper and Lawrence Mishel, “Calls to establish a regionally adjusted federal minimum wage are dangerously misguided,” Economic Policy Institute, April 5, 2021, available at https://www.epi.org/blog/calls-to-establish-a-regionally-adjusted-federal-minimum-wage-are-dangerously-misguided/.
Center for American Progress
November 5, 2021
MAX B. SAWICKY is a senior research fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. He has worked at the Economic Policy Institute and the Government Accountability Office, and has written for numerous progressive outlets.
In These Times
November 5, 2021