A U.S. worker who is paid $400,000 falls just below the threshold of the top 1%, according to figures from the Economic Policy Institute.
Common Dreams
December 4, 2020
Tlaib shared a message from Democratic congressman-elect Jamaal Bowman, who will represent New York’s 16th District, showing figures from the Economic Policy Institute on this point and said: “Stop looting us.”
Newsweek
December 4, 2020
The study by the Economic Policy Institute says retaining unemployment insurance programs set to expire this month and reviving enhanced federal unemployment payments — an extra $600 per week — would spur the projected growth in 2021.
Breitbart
December 4, 2020
A researcher for the Economic Policy Institute and a fellow at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Rothstein has written that missing chapter in U.S. history and offers the curriculum, free of charge. to any school that wants to teach it.
Freshwater Cleveland
December 4, 2020
Rep. John Garamendi (D-Calif.), Economic Policy Institute (EPI) President Thea Lee, and United Steelworkers President Tom Conway will join Paul to discuss the kind of smart public policy that is needed to help the United States recover from the pandemic while also building a more fair and equitable society for all Americans.
United Steelworkers
December 4, 2020
If conditions have been less than ideal for owners, they’re even worse for the workforce. According to One Fair Wage, a nonprofit organization that advocates on behalf of tipped workers, the restaurant industry includes seven of the 10 lowest paying jobs in the country. People who work in the industry are twice as likely to need food stamps than the rest of the U.S. workforce, and according to the Economic Policy Institute, one out of six restaurant workers live below the poverty line. Although more restaurant employers have begun to offer healthcare benefits than did historically, perks like 401(k) accounts and paid parental leave are still vanishingly rare.
Medium
December 4, 2020
In addition to higher rates of infection among Black, Hispanic/Latinx and Native American communities, Black and Hispanic workers faced greater economic and health insecurity from the pandemic than White workers, the Economic Policy Institute reported in June. A report from the JPMorgan Chase Institute found that they also shouldered the worst burden through job losses and front-line work.
The Philadelphia Tribune
December 4, 2020
Wages for the richest 1% in the U.S. have soared 160% over the past four decades while the share of wages for the bottom 90% has shrunk, according to new data from the Economic Policy Institute.
Yahoo Finance
December 4, 2020
The study by the Economic Policy Institute says retaining unemployment insurance programs set to expire this month and reviving enhanced federal unemployment payments — an extra $600 per week — would spur the projected growth in 2021.
UPI
December 4, 2020