The Rhode Island Council on Elementary and Secondary Education may soon vote for a dramatic expansion of charter schools. This would be a serious mistake. As charter schools expand, they impose dramatic net costs on school districts. The council should carefully consider those costs, particularly for a resource-strapped urban district such as Providence, before approving an ill-advised charter school expansion.
The Providence Journal
November 23, 2020
Jobless claims in context
Essential context: As the Economic Policy Institute’s Heidi Shierholz explains,
Ad Age
November 23, 2020
Institutional barriers and discrimination: According to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, younger workers as well as Black and Hispanic individuals face higher underemployment rates. Others may cut back on their working hours to care for children. A Bankrate survey from August found that 22 percent of parents would have to cut back their hours if their child’s school adopted fully remote learning.
Bankrate
November 23, 2020
When the coronavirus pandemic started spreading across the country in the spring, nearly a quarter of all young workers — defined as ages 16 to 24 — lost their jobs, according to the Economic Policy Institute. One in four young people just starting out in the workforce had their futures put on hold indefinitely. And they’re not alone: Axios in October reported that the “true unemployment rate” for Americans of all ages is over 26%.
Business Insider
November 23, 2020
Those deferrals add up. In 2014, the Joint Committee on Taxation projected the revenue loss from deferrals at $83.5 billion, and the nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute estimated in 2017 that deferred taxes on offshore profits will cost the U.S. $1.3 trillion over the next decade, or about $126 billion a year.
Salon
November 23, 2020
24/7 Wall St. used data from the Economic Policy Institute’s Family Budget Calculator to identify the most expensive place in every state. We ranked counties based on the estimated monthly cost for a single adult to maintain a modest yet adequate standard of living.
24/7 Wall St.
November 23, 2020
Black and Latino communities, who have seen more job loss in this recession and have less wealth to fall back on, are at particularly high risk for prolonged unemployment, and the lack of stimulus threatens to hit these workers the hardest, according to Heidi Shierholz, senior economist and director of policy at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
USA Today
November 23, 2020
The Economic Policy Institute’s most recent study of 40-plus years of U.S. productivity and hourly compensation shines light on the root of the discontent in our society. It shows that the productivity and compensation of average American workers dovetailed from 1948 to 1973. Productivity increased by 96.7% and hourly wages by 91.3%. The average workers were among the recipients of the nation’s prosperity.
VC Star
November 23, 2020
“Right now workers want unions,” says Celine McNicholas, director of government affairs at the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal D.C. think tank that receives 20 percent of its funding from unions. “They’re not getting them and that’s because the process is so rigged against working people.”
The Intercept
November 23, 2020
The PRO Act would also alter the way in which union elections are conducted. The current process would be changed to make it easier for employees to petition to form a union and to disallow employers from forcing workers to attend “anti-union” meetings, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Daily Caller
November 23, 2020