The Economic Policy Institute’s Family Budget Calculator was used to determine the local cost of living, which includes housing, food, health care, transportation and other necessities. In many of the locations examined in the study – which identified the region in each state where the cost of living is lowest – housing costs can account for less than 15 percent of total living expenses.
The Center Square
October 22, 2020
The Economic Policy Institute, a non-profit, non-partisan Washington, D.C. think tank, analyzed a dozen historical examples of U.S. emissions reduction regulations that industry opposed based on projected high costs. Across the board, compliance costs were routinely much lower than expected.
Now Toronto
October 22, 2020
“Think about it: Who was doing the caregiving in our country all the way back?” Elise Gould, PhD, a senior economist with the Economic Policy Institute, told Healthline.
Healthline
October 22, 2020
Women in all income brackets, from minimum wage to six-figure incomes, were affected. But low-wage workers tend to have the least amount of flexibility in their jobs. Higher-wage workers are six times as likely to be able to work from home as lower-wage workers, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
USA Today
October 22, 2020
Without a federal fiscal relief package, workers will face even greater loss of jobs and services than has already occurred. The Economic Policy Institute predicts that in Texas 433,900 public-sector jobs employing teachers, public safety workers and health care workers, will be lost by the end of 2021 without more federal aid.
CW39 Houston
October 22, 2020
Josh Bivens, et al., “How Today’s Unions Help Working People,” Economic Policy Institute, August 24, 2017 (epinet.org)
Labor Notes
October 22, 2020
Latina workers experienced a massive increase in unemployment between February and April, increasing 15.3 percentage points, according to the Economic Policy Institute. One in five—20.2%— of Latina workers were unemployed in April. By June, the Latina unemployment rate had significantly recovered but remained 10.4 percentage points over its February level.
Patch
October 22, 2020
The left-leaning Economic Policy Institute in the report said the moratorium, which ended April 3, was emblematic of the Trump administration’s broader disregard for workers’ rights and democratic elections. The EPI noted that the board issued the moratorium while simultaneously finalizing a rule that makes it more difficult for employers to voluntarily recognize a union.
Reuters
October 22, 2020
Biden wants the 12.4% Social Security tax to kick back in for incomes above $400,000. The move takes square aim at the country’s highest earners. For example, the average salary for a CEO at the 350 largest publicly-traded companies was $1.325 million (as part of a $21.28 million projected pay package), according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
MarketWatch
October 22, 2020
Nina Banks, “Black women’s labor market history reveals deep-seated race and gender discrimination” (Washington: Economic Policy Institute, 2019), available at https://www.epi.org/blog/black-womens-labor-market-history-reveals-deep-seated-race-and-gender-discrimination/.
Center for American Progress
October 22, 2020