In its latest analysis released last week, the Washington-based Economic Policy Institute calculates the “teacher pay penalty” in North Carolina at 25.3%, the seventh highest among the states. EPI’s statistical construct helps illuminate the daunting uphill climb facing North Carolina in attracting high-quality teachers for every public school classroom.
As EPI defines it, the “penalty” is the gap between teachers’ salaries and the wages of comparable college-educated professionals. EPI, which describes itself as a think tank that focuses “on the economic condition of low- and middle-income Americans,” has tracked the wage gap for more than a decade and a half.
EdNC
September 25, 2020
During the 2016 presidential campaign, candidate Donald Trump famously pledged: “The jobs, incomes, and security of the American worker will always be my first priority.”
The American Prospect
September 25, 2020
CBS 47 FOX 30
September 25, 2020
According to the Economic Policy Institute (www.epi.org), this would more than double the number of people without health insurance, and 1.2 million jobs would be lost — not just in health care but across the board.
The Paris Post-Intelligencer
September 25, 2020
Between February and May, nearly 11 million jobs held by women have disappeared — eliminating a decade of job gains by women. By June, women regained 2.9 million positions, but mostly in the hospitality field, which remains insecure amid the pandemic, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Chicago Tribune
September 25, 2020
“The executive memorandum’s main impact was to divert attention from the only thing that can provide the needed relief—increasing benefits through legislation. Congress must act, but Republicans in the Senate are blocking progress,” Heidi Shierholz, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, wrote in a blog post Thursday. “Blocking the extra $600 is terrible not just on humanitarian grounds, but also on economic grounds.”
Common Dreams
September 25, 2020
“Last week was the 27th straight week total initial [unemployment] claims were far greater than the worst week of the Great Recession” a decade ago, Economic Policy Institute senior analyst Heidi Shierholz said in tweets on joblessness. “We’ve hit a grim milestone. Most states provide 26 weeks of regular benefits. That means last week was the first week many workers had exhausted their regular state unemployment insurance.”
People's Weekly World
September 25, 2020
Join WorkRise for the first installment in a week-long series of online conversations exploring bold new ideas for transforming the labor market for low-wage workers.
Panel 2 – Tackling Racial Inequity and Injustice in the Labor Market:
Amanda Cage, President and Chief Executive Officer, National Fund for Workforce Solutions
Tanya Wallace-Gobern, Executive Director, National Black Worker Center Project
Heidi Shierholz, Senior Economist and Director of Policy, Economic Policy Institute
Lisa Hamilton, President and Chief Executive Officer, Annie E. Casey Foundation (moderator)
WorkRise Network
September 25, 2020
“There’s no silver lining if you can’t work from home,” says Elise Gould, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. Gould adds that women make up a large segment of government employees and could be at risk if there are widespread public-sector layoffs.
Society for Human Resource Management
September 25, 2020
According to the Economic Policy Institute, there have now been 27 consecutive weeks where the total number of people filing for unemployment was higher than the worst part of the Great Recession.
MSN Money
September 25, 2020