Since Trump took office, the lowest-income workers have seen largely stagnant wages, while the top 5% show the sharpest increase, according to federal data compiled by the liberal Economic Policy Institute.
Politifact
August 25, 2020
Trade skeptics have blamed such agreements from hurting employment in the United States. In 2015, the liberal Economic Policy Institute estimated that 95,000 jobs had been lost in the United States due to the agreement.
Politifact
August 25, 2020
Here’s the inside baseball: In terms of their curricula vitae, both were once at the labor-left Economic Policy Institute (on whose board I serve), but more recently held senior posts at two more center-leftish think tanks—the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Bernstein’s case, and the Center for American Progress in the case of Boushey.
The American Prospect
August 25, 2020
Since Trump took office, the lowest-income workers have seen largely stagnant wages, while the top 5% show the sharpest increase, according to federal data compiled by the liberal Economic Policy Institute.
Politifact
August 25, 2020
Trade skeptics have blamed such agreements from hurting employment in the United States. In 2015, the liberal Economic Policy Institute estimated that 95,000 jobs had been lost in the United States due to the agreement.
Politifact
August 25, 2020
Here’s the inside baseball: In terms of their curricula vitae, both were once at the labor-left Economic Policy Institute (on whose board I serve), but more recently held senior posts at two more center-leftish think tanks—the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Bernstein’s case, and the Center for American Progress in the case of Boushey.
The American Prospect
August 25, 2020
Heidi Sheirholz, senior economist and director of policy at the Economic Policy Institute, said that year-over-year wage growth was massive in April, when average hourly earnings stood at 7.9%. (Hourly earnings have previously hovered above 3% in previous months.)
CNET
August 21, 2020
If Congress decides to reinstate a federal unemployment benefit bonus — in any amount — it will likely take two to four weeks for payments to flow to states and then recipients, according to the Economic Policy Institute. So far, the proposal has been introduced only in the Senate. Democratic congressional leaders are currently negotiating with the GOP on the particulars of the plan.
CNET
August 21, 2020
With the economic fallout of the pandemic, the stakes are higher than ever. According to the Economic Policy Institute, state and local governments face a $1 trillion shortfall by the end of 2021. In what is sure to be a protracted period of austerity, high unemployment and fraying health care and public welfare systems, our communities deserve better and need more than outsize spending on police.
USA Today
August 21, 2020