Caroline Hyde, Romaine Bostick & Taylor Riggs bring the news and analysis you may have missed after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today’s show tackles what to expect from the jobs report Guest Today: Elise Gould of the Economic Policy Institute, Lynden Melmed of Berry Appleman & Leiden
Bloomberg TV
December 3, 2021
That’s Josh Bivens, director of research at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. He says rising prices in certain categories are more likely to affect low-income people, like food at home rather than restaurants.
NPR
December 3, 2021
A shift in labor market dynamics is not surprising, considering widening gaps over the decades between employers and workers, supply and demand. This includes reductions in benefits and flexibility, a sense among workers that employers simply don’t value them and pay disparities — the Economic Policy Institute estimates that compensation has grown 1,322% for CEOs since 1978 but just 18% for the typical worker.
Forbes
December 3, 2021
Other candidates for board slots include Valerie Wilson, director of the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute’s Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy; Lisa Cook, a professor of economics and international relations at Michigan State University; William Spriggs, chief economist at the AFL-CIO and Karen Dynan, a former top Treasury official under President Barack Obama and an economics professor at Harvard University.
Bloomberg
December 3, 2021
“They don’t have any fantastic policy tool available to them” to address the drivers of elevated inflation, said Josh Bivens, research director at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
Wall Street Journal
December 3, 2021
Home care workers make an average of under $14 an hour, or less than $30,000 a year, according to a new study from the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal group. Most of the workers are women, and many are of color.
The New York Times
December 3, 2021
C’est pourqoui Lawrence Mishel espère des changements en particulier des sanctions plus fortes, de l’administration Biden.
Alternatives Economiques
December 2, 2021
Dollar Tree’s decision to push higher costs onto consumers follows a growing trend of companies citing inflationary pressures in the economy to justify price hikes—even as they bring in record profits and lavishly reward their executives and shareholders. In 2020, according to a recent analysis by the Economic Policy Institute, CEOs made 351 times as much as a typical worker, and CEO pay has soared by 1,322% since 1978.
Common Dreams
November 24, 2021
Workers advocates, however, are still steadfastly against the measure. David Cooper, a senior analyst for the Economic Policy Institute (paywall).
Orlando Sentinel
November 24, 2021