“Anything that in the very short run puts a lot of pressure on family budgets across the board will cause more stress and damage to low-income households because they just have less scope to absorb it,” said Josh Bivens, director of research for the Economic Policy Institute.
Atlanta Journal Constitution
November 19, 2021
Adewale Maye, an analyst at the progressive Economic Policy Institute, said provisions in the reconciliation package on education, health care and child care “could have a very large impact on poverty reduction and have a disproportionate impact on Black and brown families.”
Roll Call
November 19, 2021
Using different methodology, Adam Hersh, a visiting economist at the liberal Economic Policy Institute, recently calculated that over the first five years of implementation the infrastructure plan would create nearly 775,000 jobs annually, while the Build Back Better plan would add about another 2.3 million jobs a year. Hersh also projects that more than 80% of the infrastructure plan’s new jobs would not require college degrees, while non-college jobs would compose almost exactly four-fifths of those created by the broader plan.
The Atlanta Voice
November 19, 2021
An Economic Policy Institute analysis shows that the wage gap between teachers and the remainder of the comparably educated workforce was about 21% in 2018, compared to only 6% in 1996.
Newsmax
November 19, 2021
“It’s fair,” says Elise Gould, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, whose own family budget calculator helped to inform For US. “There is integrity to the whole process,” adds Gould, who crunched data for Murray and will continue to partner going forward.
Fast Company
November 19, 2021
The average American two-parent household with with two young kids devotes about 25 percent of its income to childcare, according to an Economic Policy Institute analysis. In Texas, full-time child care for a 4-year-old is nearly equal to tuition at a public college.
Houston Chronicle
November 19, 2021
According to the Economic Policy Institute, the compensation for CEOs have grown by 1,322% since 1978. At the same time, the compensation for a typical worker has grown 18%. This kind of gap cannot be unnoticed and we should discuss why such inequality exists today.
Industry Week
November 19, 2021
Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, said it’s “stunning” that from August to September, this sector nearly doubled in quit rate, although she cautioned that part of it may be statistical noise that may be revised in the coming months.
Business Insider
November 19, 2021
By that standard, less than 11 percent of Pennsylvania families can afford infant care, which the Economic Policy Institute said costs an average of $987 per month, or $11,842 a year. The cost of care for a 4-year-old is nearly as high, at $9,733 per year.
The Daily News
November 19, 2021
The Commonwealth Institute used the Economic Policy Institute’s family budget calculator to determine the income needed for a “modest yet adequate” standard of living. The Economic Policy Institute takes into account housing, food, transportation, taxes and other necessities such as clothing, phone service, reading materials and furniture.
The Virginian-Pilot
November 19, 2021