New York Times
January 15, 2021
Additionally, the pandemic has also significantly impacted education. According to the Economic Policy Institute, the economic shocks following this economic recession and multiple natural disasters, such as Hurricane Zeta, have led to extreme cuts in education budgets. This shows detrimental effects on education outcomes and test scores. To uplift children and reduce educational inequities, a three-step course was created to help by reliving, recovering, and rebuilding our community.
Medium
January 15, 2021
This increase was described Tuesday as “troubling” by the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank. “The latest congressional relief bill is an important step toward addressing some of this pain, but it is not at the scale of the problem. I’m hopeful that more relief measures are on the horizon for increasingly desperate workers and their families. Senate Republicans forced the December bill to be far too small,” said Elise Gould, senior economist at the EPI.
Market Watch
January 14, 2021
According to the Economic Policy Institute, a non-profit policy think tank supported in part by labor unions, more than half of non-union private sector workers are subject to mandatory arbitration agreements. That’s about twice the percentage seen two decades ago.
The Register
January 14, 2021
Agile will also attract highly-skilled engineers to Durango, new residents who will patronize local businesses and invest in the town, the case study said. EIG estimated the company would be able to indirectly add 209 jobs, based on a multiplier tool developed by the Economic Policy Institute.
The Durango Herald
January 14, 2021
For restaurants, the benefit is straightforward—the ability to narrow the pay gap between the front and back of the house. On the worker side, though, it could get dicey. Heidi Shierholz, a scholar at the Economic Policy Institute and former chief economist at the Labor Department under President Obama, told The Hill the ambiguity of “reasonable time” would be difficult to enforce and open a loophole for employers—a point capable of costing tipped workers a collective $700 million a year.
FSR Magazine
January 14, 2021
There are lots of reasons to invest in infrastructure and clean energy, including addressing climate change. But these investments also create jobs, which is why the federal government must also get to work. According to the Economic Policy Institute, a $2 trillion, four-year investment in infrastructure and clean energy would create at least 3.3 million new jobs.
Alliance for American Manufacturing
January 14, 2021
H-2A farmworkers, who are hired to help with seasonal harvests, make up 10% of farmworkers in the United States. Last year, there were 150,000 H-2A farmworkers in the field from January through July. According to the Economic Policy Institute, it’s a decrease from 2019, which had 257,667 H2-A certified jobs.
The States Public Radio
January 14, 2021
Teacher professional development was on the brink of wide-spread reform before the pandemic. All-day in-service learning logistics, irrelevant content and the expense of travel were just a few of complaints of the traditional PD practices. Teachers also said there was limited access to effective PD opportunities, according to research published in 2019 by the Economic Policy Institute that was included in a series about the teacher labor market.
K-12 Dive
January 14, 2021
But many do. Full-time workers making the federal minimum wage bring home just $15,080 a year; all in all, 11 percent of American workers earn poverty wages. This is a straightforward product of policy, a chosen technocratic outcome. The federal minimum wage has languished at a measly $7.25 an hour since 2009. That leaves it roughly one-third lower than it was in 1968, in inflation-adjusted terms, despite the fact that the country is now much richer and the economy far bigger. The Economic Policy Institute has estimated that workers earning the minimum wage make $7,000 less each year than their grandparents did half a century ago, in real terms.
The Atlantic
January 14, 2021