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• WTSP-Tampa Bay

  EPI’s health insurance research is cited.

  WTSP-Tampa Bay December 16, 2020
• WREX-Chicago

  EPI’s minimum wage research is cited

  WREX-Chicago December 16, 2020
• Elise Gould on COVID-19 pandemic impact on America’s workers

  Economic Policy Institute senior economist Elise Gould talked about the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on America’s workforce and why robust financial relief measures were needed.

  C-SPAN Washington Journal December 15, 2020
• Teachers are working longer, facing even more financial strain, and considering leaving their jobs as the pandemic pushes educators to the brink

  Amid these strains, some teachers are considering leaving their posts. Already, schools across the nation were facing a shortage of teachers. The Economic Policy institute predicted that the teacher shortage would exceed 110,000 in the school year of 2017 and 2018. But now, 27% teachers are considering quitting, retiring early, or taking a leave of absence, the survey found.

  Business Insider December 15, 2020
• How to stop making excuses for purchases you shouldn’t make

  The average credit-card holding household in America has a little over $8,000 in credit card debt. Meanwhile, the Economic Policy Institute estimates that the average wage worker is making about $40,000 a year. That puts the average household credit card debt at nearly a quarter of many household’s annual income after taxes.

  MadameNoire December 15, 2020
• State Democratic leaders urge U.S. senators to extend COVID-relief programs

  According to the Economic Policy Institute, reinstating the unemployment insurance programs would add more than 5 million jobs and raise the United States’ GDP by 3.5%. Given the fact that we are still 10 million jobs below where we were a year ago, we cannot understand any hesitancy about making this move.

  The State Journal December 15, 2020
• Biden’s push for a minimum wage hike could prompt bidding war at retail

  Biden’s plan to more than double the minimum wage is part of an ambitious effort to lift a wage that has remained at $7.25 since 2009, up from $5.15 as of 2000, according to the U.S. Department of Labor data compiled by S&P Global Market Intelligence. However, 29 states and Washington, D.C., already have minimum wages that exceed the federal minimum, according to the Economic Policy Institute.

  S&P Global December 15, 2020
• Still broke? Top earners are sucking up the cash

  Wages for the bottom 90 percent of earners are being gobbled up by the top 10 percent of earners—with the top One Percent and top One-tenth of One Percent of earners reaping huge financial bonanzas, according to the Economic Policy Institute, which analyzed federal government data.

  The Final Call December 15, 2020
• Are NV workers worth as much as AZ workers? Asking for NV Democrats.

  Here’s a look at the minimum wage and its scheduled increases in Nevada and surrounding coastal and intermountain states, as compiled by the Economic Policy Institute’s Minimum Wage Tracker.

  Nevada Current December 15, 2020
• “Fighting the pandemic” vs. “saving the economy” is a false choice

  As everyone from the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute to the chief economist at Moody’s Analytics has argued, these and other policies that put spending money into the pockets of poor and other working people would be a boon for the economy. It’s why even Forbes magazine — which spent the Great Recession making the case against unemployment insurance — championed extending the unusually generous unemployment program this time around.

  Jacobin December 15, 2020