Kyle K. Moore, an economist with the Economic Policy Institute’s Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy, put it this way: “Our current system has so many points of failure that you really have to address them on multiple levels.”
The Center for Public Integrity
March 25, 2022
Ron Hira is an associate professor of political science at Howard University. He is also a research associate with the Economic Policy Institute. He has written widely on high-skilled immigration, offshoring, and the decline of the middle class. Daniel Costa is an attorney and the director of immigration law and policy research at the Economic Policy Institute, and is a visiting scholar with the Global Migration Center at the University of California, Davis. He researches and writes about US and global labor migration.
Jacobin
March 25, 2022
There are various analyses of how many people earn less than $15 an hour. The left-leaning Economic Policy Institute last year that 22 million people would see a boost in pay if the federal minimum wage was raised to $15 an hour in 2025 under the Raise the Wage Act.
CNN
March 25, 2022
Instead of offering helpful tips, Teresa Ghilarducci, the author of the article who also happens to serve on the board of the leftist think tank the Economic Policy Institute, recommended that Americans who make less than $300,000 annually eat lentils and stop paying medical bills for beloved pets to deal with government-caused price hikes.
The Federalist
March 25, 2022
Ron Hira is an associate professor of political science at Howard University. He is also a research associate with the Economic Policy Institute. He has written widely on high-skilled immigration, offshoring, and the decline of the middle class. Daniel Costa is an attorney and the director of immigration law and policy research at the Economic Policy Institute, and is a visiting scholar with the Global Migration Center at the University of California, Davis. He researches and writes about US and global labor migration.
Jacobin
March 24, 2022
In return, cafeteria staff bring home some of the lowest earnings of the generally underpaid K–12 workforce. David Cooper, who directs the Economic Policy Institute’s Economic Analysis and Research Network, told Jacobin that his team estimates that school nutrition workers were paid an hourly median of $12.32 between 2014 and 2019, calculated in 2020 dollars.
Jacobin
March 18, 2022
Features Monique discussing USPS reform bill.
Free Speech TV
March 18, 2022
That troubles Elise Gould, a senior economist with the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. “You can’t explain it away,” she says of the disparities across many sectors. Gould says she’s encouraged by the fact that women today are better educated, as women continue to outpace men in college enrollment. But she adds that it doesn’t necessarily translate into bigger paychecks for women. “They’re not seeing the returns in the labor market,” she says.
MarketWatch
March 18, 2022
Median CEO pay in 2020 came in 351 times higher than the typical worker’s, according to the Economic Policy Institute (paywall).
Crain’s New York Business
March 18, 2022
More than 60 million private-sector, nonunion workers are subject to mandatory arbitration agreements, a number that has grown steadily in recent years, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
Reuters
March 18, 2022
Union-busting tactics are disturbingly common. The Economic Policy Institute found in 2019 that employers are charged with breaking labor law in 41.5 percent of all union election campaigns — meaning that they illegally intimidate employees through terminations, disciplines, or threats.
Jacobin
March 18, 2022
But the reduction in supply was met with increased demand as Americans started purchasing durable goods to replace the services they used prior to the pandemic, said Josh Bivens, director of research at the Economic Policy Institute.
CNET
March 18, 2022
The data are clear: Corporations – not workers – are to blame for recent price hikes. Research from the Economic Policy Institute looks at 110 industries and finds that there is no correlation between price acceleration and wage growth. Simply put, wage increases are not driving prices up.
Salon
March 18, 2022
According to the Economic Policy Institute, the cost of a modest but adequate standard of living in the Columbus metropolitan area for a family of one adult and two children is $70,190 a year.[11]
Policy Matters Ohio
March 18, 2022
Payday Reports
March 18, 2022
Understanding wage patterns also depends on what numbers you look at. Josh Bivens, research director of the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, wrote in an email to PolitiFact Texas the statement does not seem accurate.
Politifact
March 18, 2022
The Economic Policy Institute found typical domestic workers are paid $12.01 per hour and these workers are three times as likely to be living in poverty as other workers. They are also three times as likely to be living in poverty or be above the poverty line but still without sufficient income to make ends meet.
The Hill
March 18, 2022
The hourly rate needed for a full-time worker with no children to live in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, which currently boasts the lowest cost of living in the US, according to Insider. This figure, obtained from the Economic Policy Institute’s family budget calculator, is double the federal minimum wage, which hasn’t budged from $7.25 since 2009.
Morning Brew
March 18, 2022
A two-parent, two-child family in the Las Vegas metropolitan area would need to bring in $81,813 a year ($6,818 per month) to sustain a “modest yet adequate standard of living,” according to an updated analysis by the Economic Policy Institute.
The Nevada Current
March 18, 2022
According to the Economic Policy Institute, women were paid 22.1% less on average than men in 2021, even after counting for race and ethnicity, education, age and geography. That figure has stayed fairly consistent since the early ’90s.
KRTV
March 18, 2022
Finally, and most notably, the pillow company said they took the average cost of daycare over the course of a year for each state from the Economic Policy Institute. In that department, Massachusetts soared high above the rest with an average of $20,913 in yearly infant care costs as of 2020. Body Nest said that’s more than triple the cost of paying for infant care in the least expensive state, Alabama.
WBZ News Radio
March 18, 2022
The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) estimates that CEO compensation has grown 1,322% since 1978, while typical worker compensation has risen just 18%. In 2020, CEOs of the top 350 firms in the U.S. made $24.2 million on average, which was 351 times more than a typical worker.
Benzinga (via Yahoo! Finance)
March 18, 2022
Since 1972, the Black unemployment rate has always been higher than mainstream America, Ryan reports. However, according to Elise Gould, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, “The white unemployment rate is now lower than the Black unemployment rate has ever been.”
The Grio
March 18, 2022
“There was a time when really high oil price inflation could’ve tipped us into a recession by clamping down on household spending,” said Josh Bivens, research director at the Economic Policy Institute. “But our oil extraction sector is pretty huge now… and they generate a ton of domestic profit now.”
Quartz
March 18, 2022
Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, said it wasn’t just closures but uncertainties around school and daycare reopenings. This uncertainty, Gould said, especially impacted moms and parents with young kids. Moms were also more likely than fathers to be in jobs hard hit by pandemic-related closures early on in the pandemic, according to a Census post.
Business Insider
March 18, 2022
Then there are wages. After organizing efforts shifted into high gear, Starbucks announced that it was making “historic investments in its partners,” including raising the wage floor to $15 an hour by this coming summer. However, $15 is what activists called a “living wage” in 2012, and it’s what Amazon started paying fulfillment-center workers back in 2018. The MIT Living Wage Calculator says that a single adult needs to earn at least $20 an hour to meet today’s minimum standard of living in New York City, $23 in the Bay Area, and $19 in Seattle. To sustain themselves in America’s most affordable county (Orangeburg, South Carolina), workers need to earn at least $14.50 an hour, according to the Economic Policy Institute’s latest Family Budget Calculator.
Fast Company
March 18, 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 18, 2022