In a tweet, the president of the Economic Policy Institute and former chief economist to the Labor Secretary under President Obama called it “mindbogglingly fast and sustained growth.”
Reuters
March 11, 2022
“It’s not like everything is totally rosy,” noted Heidi Shierholz, president of the D.C.-based Economic Policy Institute, who also gives the federal relief effort high marks. “We still have a long way to go. So I don’t want to make it seem like I’m trying to convince people who are living in what is a difficult time that everything is great. But our recovery is much faster than what it would be if Congress hadn’t acted.”
Capital and Main
March 11, 2022
Features quote from Asha Banerjee.
USA Today
March 11, 2022
The Economic Policy Institute shares that union workers get an average 11.2% more and gain greater access to health insurance and paid sick leave. Even with many states raising the minimum wage in 2022, and a tight labor market that continues to drive employee wages higher in an effort to find quality workers, employees with unions behind them are likely to garner even higher pay, historically speaking.
GoBankingRates
March 11, 2022
The Economic Policy Institute, a liberal nonpartisan think-tank, has reported that North Carolina teachers earned 25% per week less than “similarly educated peers” before the pandemic. How teacher pay aligns, or doesn’t, with professionals in government and business is a stronger measure than the conventional debate over state salary rankings.
EdNC
March 11, 2022
Pity the CEO. Well, maybe not. According to the Economic Policy Institute, the top executives at the largest 350 firms in the U.S. were paid an average of $24.1 million per year in 2020. That’s about 350 times more than the compensation of the typical worker.
The Week
March 11, 2022
Before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Josh Bivens, research director at the Economic Policy Institute, believed wages would get ahead of inflation in 2022. “I thought inflation was going to relent quite a bit through the year,” he said. “That’s probably been delayed pretty considerably.”
Marketplace
March 11, 2022
Heidi Sheirholz, who leads the liberal Economic Policy Institute, said the legislation is “a core reason we’re in such an incredibly strong recovery right now.”
Associated Press
March 11, 2022
For example, according to a 2017 Economic Policy Institute study … (paywall)
Law360
March 11, 2022
In the 2017-18 school year, researchers estimated a shortage of about 110,000 teachers in U.S. schools, according an article published in the Economic Policy Institute. EPI describes itself as a non-profit, nonpartisan think tank that focuses on needs of low and middle income workers in economic policy discussions.
Billings Gazette
March 11, 2022