Teacher shortages have been reported across the country for years. Researchers from the Economic Policy Institute recently investigated this issue further and found that the problem is worse than they initially thought. Last year, the institute found that nationwide teacher shortages have reached 118,000 vacancies. That number and is forecast to increase to 200,000 by 2025.
The McDonough County Voice
January 28, 2022
The company then compared that median income to an estimate of the cost of living for our friendly Median Household, including median rent according to Census American Community Survey data as well as a basic necessities calculator from the Economic Policy Institute. It also calculated spending on “wants” using consumer spending data. Ultimately, they created a “basket of goods” indicating how much this median household would spend — and hence, how much they could save.
Greater Greater Washington
January 28, 2022
Unions have interpreted these data as evidence of an unfair marketplace rather than their own faults. “The path to formal union recognition and bargaining in this country is torture,” Larry Cohen, a former president of the Communications Workers of America, complained. His alternative, known as card check, would eliminate workers’ right to a secret ballot vote on representation. Heidi Shierholz, president of the union-funded Economic Policy Institute, argued that the “substantial level of union activity in 2021 and the polling data on union favorability” demonstrate the enduring appeal of unions.
The Wall Street Journal
January 28, 2022
Over the decades, tens of millions of African-Americans have flourished. Blacks have made enormous strides in gaining access to the most important key to higher earnings, education. In 2018 the Economic Policy Institute assessed the economic and educational state of black America 50 years after the Kerner Commission report warned of segregation and stagnation.
The Wall Street Journal
January 28, 2022
They want to see it set at a level that applies to at least the 55th percentile of earnings of full-time salaried workers in the country, which would have been $73,551 in 2021 and which, according to Economic Policy Institute projections, will increase to around $82,745 by 2026.
The American Prospect
January 28, 2022
But others interpret it differently. The nonprofit think tank Economic Policy Institute has its own “Family Budget Calculator.” And for an individual in Denver, the income needed for a “modest yet adequate standard of living” is $41,200 a year, or $19.81 an hour. It drops to $33,000 to $36,000 in Pueblo, Yuma and Mesa counties. Budget numbers are based on 2017 dollars, so it’s already out of date.
The Colorado Sun
January 28, 2022
Quotes Margaret on union membership numbers (paywall).
Newsday
January 28, 2022
Ben Zipperer, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, said “it’s pretty clear that greater vaccine take-up is one of our best public health weapons, period.”
NBC News
January 28, 2022
Monique Morrisey, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, explained there are differences among affected older workers, with 55 to 64 year olds who are not eligible for Medicare and in most cases are not yet receiving social security, and workers 65 and older who left the workforce. The issues facing late middle age workers are more worrisome, given their economic demographics.
The Guardian
January 28, 2022
Union membership has also been on the decline for decades, which the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute said tracked alongside an increasingly larger share of income going to the top 10%. The latest data released from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that union-membership numbers slid yet again.
Business Insider
January 28, 2022