In 2019, the Economic Policy Institute laid bare the consequences of a growing teacher shortage: a lack of qualified teachers, instability in the teacher workforce that threatens students’ ability to learn, diminished effectiveness of teachers on the job and high turnover rates.
The Hill
September 10, 2020
He’s talking about the practice of offshoring. It’s when companies move parts of their manufacturing to countries so they can pay lower taxes. The Economic Policy Institute says 1,800 factories shut down here in the U-S between 2016 and 2018.
Newsy
September 10, 2020
“This translates into a job seekers ratio of 2.3 to every job opening,” wrote economist Elise Gould for the Economic Policy Institute. “Another way to think about this: for every 23 workers who were officially counted as unemployed, there were only available jobs for 10 of them. That means, no matter what they did, there were no jobs for 8.3 million unemployed workers.”
Courthouse News Service
September 10, 2020
“We are already seeing it,” said Heidi Shierholz, senior economist and director of policy at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). “But it’s just gonna get way, way worse.”
The 19th
September 10, 2020
“With this kind of slowing in job growth, it will take years to return to the pre-pandemic labor market,” wrote Elise Gould, an Economic Policy Institute (EPI) senior economist, on the group’s website. “And without the $600 boost to unemployment insurance, jobs will return even more slowly than had policymakers stepped up and continued that vital support to workers and the economy.”
Teamsters
September 10, 2020
Según un análisis del Economic Policy Institute, al ritmo del aumento de la tasa de desempleo generada por la pandemia, cerca de 12 millones de personas pueden haber perdido sus seguros de salud desde febrero.
MSN
September 10, 2020
Heidi Shierholz, economista del Economic Policy Institute, explicaba que la semana pasada es la 25 semana consecutiva en la que las solicitudes iniciales de desempleo son peores que en la peor semana de la Gran Recesión de 2008.
El Diario
September 10, 2020
The data on monthly expenses was produced internally and provided to CAP by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) as part of their Family Budget Calculator, which “measures the monthly income a family needs in order to attain a modest yet adequate standard of living.”
Center for American Progress
September 10, 2020
The Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank that opposed the Trump administration’s rule, issued a study estimating it would cost workers $1 billion per year in lost wages. Woods wrote that the administration “did not have to agree with that estimate” but they ignored it instead of doing an analysis of their own. They assumed their rule “would cost workers nothing ― an obviously unreasonable assumption,” he wrote.
The Huffington Post
September 10, 2020
A study released in August by the Economic Policy Institute found that
- Unionized workers earn on average 11.2% more in wages than non-unionized peers
- Unionized Hispanic workers are paid 20.1% more than their non-unionized peers
- Unionized Black workers are paid 13.7% more than their non-unionized peers
- Unionized White workers are paid 8.7% more than their non-unionized peers
- 94% of workers covered by a union contract have access to employer-sponsored health benefits, compared with just 68% of non-union workers
- 91% of workers covered by a union contract have access to paid sick days, compared with 73% of non-union workers
LocalSyr
September 10, 2020