The US Department of Health and Human Services defines “affordable” child care as costing no more than 7 percent of a family’s income. In Massachusetts, according to the Economic Policy Institute, day care for a 4-year-old costs on average $15,095 a year, which is 16 percent of median income even in this high-wage state. And it’s certainly not the (overwhelmingly female) workers who are getting rich on this expensive service; the median wage for a child-care worker in Massachusetts is $27,680. Despite the many political paeans to the sanctity of the family, society still sees child care as a private responsibility, not a public good.
Boston Globe
December 4, 2020
Bernstein started working as a senior official at the EPI (Economic Policy Institute) in 1992. From 1995 to 1996, he served in the United States Department of Labor as the deputy chief economist. Then, he returned to EPI as a senior economist and the director of the Living Standards Program until he was selected by Biden.
Market Realist
December 4, 2020
Among the top 30 H-1B employers are major U.S. firms including Amazon, Microsoft, Walmart, Alphabet’s Google, Apple, and Facebook, according to a report by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) in May.
Reuters
December 4, 2020
Valerie Wilson, del Economic Policy Institute, dijo en un comunicado que el impacto financiero desproporcionado de la pandemia en las comunidades de color refleja, y empeora, las disparidades raciales existentes en el país.
Reporte Hispano
December 4, 2020
“Senate Republicans allowed the across-the-board $600 [federal] increase in weekly unemployment insurance benefits to expire at the end of July, so last week was the 18th week of unemployment in this pandemic for which recipients did not get the extra $600,” Economic Policy Institute Policy Director Heidi Shierholz said.
People’s World
December 4, 2020
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