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• Why Are Women Struggling to Secure Venture Capital Funding?

  However, the Economic Policy Institute points out that women earn less at every wage level. Thus, it’s not just that women gravitate toward less-lucrative industries. Those women in high-paying sectors are still compensated less than their male counterparts. Logically, this suggests that with the gender equity gap, sexism is at least partially responsible for the negative impact.

  Nasdaq November 4, 2020
• 4 Financial Strategies for Women During the Coronavirus Pandemic

  “The problem is it’s not an individual failing, it’s a societal failing, it’s a policy failing,” says Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit and nonpartisan think tank based in the District of Columbia.

  US News November 4, 2020
• How Covid-19 is making us rethink safety net programmes

  Bivens, J and B Zipperer (2020), Health Insurance and the COVID-19 Shock, Economic Policy Institute Report.

  VoxEU November 4, 2020
• Report card: Did Trump live up to his economic promises?

  The Economic Policy Institute estimates that employment gains were largely on par with Trump’s predecessor Obama, while factories have continued to close despite his efforts to pressure firms to bring back plants. Meanwhile, Biden has also made reinvigorating American manufacturing a key policy pledge but, like Trump, he will be trying to hold back the tide as automation and fierce overseas competition hurt factories.

  The Age November 4, 2020
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• Average Retirement Savings vs. Emergency Savings by Age Group

  According to the Economic Policy Institute ​300, the average retirement savings of Americans ages 32 to 37 was $32,602 as of 2016. It should ideally be closer to $67,000.

  This figure increases dramatically for savers in their late 30s and early 40s. At this point, the average retirement savings grows to $61,933 among Americans ages 38 to 43.6

  The Balance November 4, 2020
• Bipartisan assault on US public education intensifies amid COVID-19 pandemic

  According to a recent Economic Policy Institute (EPI) study, K-12 districts across the US are facing a $1 trillion shortfall by the end of 2021. The sharp decline in state and local tax revenue comes in the aftermath of decades of systematic disinvestment in public education. State and local funding constitutes the majority source of K-12 public school budgets in the US.

  World Socialist Website November 4, 2020
• DHS proposal ditches H-1B visa lottery for wage-based selection process

  The latest decision to nix the agency’s previous lottery-based method of selecting visa petitions is an attempt to address an issue that observers of the H-1B program have previously highlighted. That is, the H-1B program’s prevailing wage levels mean workers can hire foreign talent at prices that are “significantly lower” than local median salaries for certain occupations, according to a May analysis by the Economic Policy Institute. The organization found, for instance, that three-fifths of 2019 H-1B jobs were certified at the two lowest prevailing wage levels.

  HR Dive November 4, 2020
• Florida is the most conservative state yet to approve a $15 minimum wage

  Whenever a minimum-wage increase is put to voters to decide, it passes, says David Cooper, senior analyst at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. The results in Florida, where the $15 wage floor passed with nearly 61% of the vote, “signals to federal lawmakers that this is an issue that they can’t ignore,” Cooper adds.

  Quartz November 4, 2020
• Florida is voting today on a $15 minimum wage, which could affect more than a million people

  Economists appear just as split on increasing the minimum wage as politicians. An open letter published by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) was signed by more than 40 economists supporting an increase of the minimum wage to $15 by 2024, noting that it would benefit about 28.1 million workers in the U.S.

  The Hill November 4, 2020