Brown cited this organization to push the claim that canceling student debt would just cause colleges to increase tuition even more, completely ignoring the role a lack of government funding plays in tuition increases. As CNBC reported, a comprehensive report on tuition increases from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities stated that “limited state funding has contributed to rising college costs.” Michael Mitchell, the lead author of the report, told CNBC that “nearly every state has shifted the responsibility of funding higher education from the state to students over the last 25 years.” Economic Policy Institute’s Josh Bivens also told CNBC: “Policymakers cut back funding for higher education, and these cutbacks were made up with huge increases in tuition costs, forcing people to take on more debt.” Bivens said canceling student debt is “recompense for a string of bad policy failures.”
Media Matters
March 5, 2021
By the early 1970s, the union avoidance industry had become big business. Lawyers and consultants have since spent decades finding even more weaknesses in NLRB law and procedures, effectively thwarting the desires of workers to unionize. A 2019 report from the Economic Policy Institute estimated that employers spend $340 million a year on union avoidance consultants. In 2018, 48 percent of non-union workers said they would join a union if they could; yet just 10.8 percent of workers belong to a union today. Between those two numbers is the union-avoidance industry doing the bidding of the bosses.
Labor Notes
March 5, 2021
According to the Economic Policy Institute, these credits had “broad partisan support.”
Marketplace
March 5, 2021
There has been enough evidence to suggest that combining cheques along with targeted programmes have been extremely effective. For example, the Urban Institute and the Economic Policy Institute found that combining payments along with expanded unemployment benefits in the summer of 2020 helped nearly 12 million people from falling into poverty in the US.
Pharmaceutical Technology
March 5, 2021
According to a May 4, 2020 analysis by the Economic Policy Institute, a majority of H-1B employers use the visa programme to pay migrant workers below-market wages, and half of the top 30 H-1B employers use an outsourcing business model, they said.
Yahoo
March 5, 2021
The Center for Economic and Policy Research notes that the wage gap between white and Black workers is narrower among postal workers than among private sector employees. The Economic Policy Institute has found that Black workers’ share of USPS jobs is significantly higher than their share of all public sector jobs.
Truthout
March 5, 2021
The Daily Show
March 5, 2021
“It’s hard to say it will be very appealing for young [students] to go into a profession that just at the beginning underpays you by about 20 percent relative to other professions,” says Emma García, an education economist at the Economic Policy Institute. “That is a pretty significant cut in your paycheck, and that is a penalty that has been growing for the last couple of decades.”
EdSurge
March 5, 2021