The Economic Policy Institute ranks our state 49th in teacher pay competitiveness compared to other professions with the same degree requirements. It’s no wonder so many teachers are leaving the profession, depriving our children of the best and the brightest.
Winston-Salem Journal
August 3, 2020
The stakes as lawmakers work to find common ground are high. According to Zhou and Nilsen, federal unemployment assistance during an unprecedented period of job loss may have staunched what would have otherwise been a major increase in poverty levels. The cash payments have also likely bolstered the economy and staved off additional job losses by maintaining consumer spending, according to independent studies by researchers at the University of Chicago, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, and the Economic Policy Institute.
VOX
August 3, 2020
“It is absolutely providing just a crucial lifeline to millions and millions of people,” Heidi Shierholz, a former Labor Department economist who now works at the Economic Policy Institute, told the outlet. “But at the same time, there just have been — and we all know this — just a huge amount of issues with getting those benefits to many, many people.”
Salon
August 3, 2020
The Census Bureau already publishes the small-area Supplemental Poverty Measure which can be used as a starting point to improve upon, as the Economic Policy Institute’s Family Budget Calculator does.
The Hill
August 3, 2020
Today barely 58% of all working-class Americans are white; according to a 2016 Economic Policy Institute study, people of color will become the majority of the working class by 2032.
LA Times
August 3, 2020
Specifically, our nation lost 3.2 million jobs to China over a 12-year period from the time Biden proposed Beijing’s inclusion as a most-favored trading member of the WTO in 2001, per analysis from the Economic Policy Institute.
Real Clear Politics
August 3, 2020
The Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a nonprofit think tank, published a report this year that concludes that 60 years after the Supreme Court declared “separate but equal” schools unconstitutional, American schools “remain heavily segregated by race and ethnicity.”
CNN
August 3, 2020
“When people don’t have money, they can’t spend it, which reduces the demand for goods and services, and with that the jobs to provide those goods and services,” said Elise Gould, senior economist at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
If Congress failed to restore the additional unemployment benefits altogether, she said, it would kill 5 million jobs over a year.
The Hill
August 3, 2020
By 2015, the average income of the top 1% of U.S. earners was $1,300,000, while the average income of the other 99% was $50,000. Average earners in the top slice were taking home 26 times the average of everyone else, according to the Economic Policy Institute’s New Gilded Age report.
The Globalist
August 3, 2020
If Congress does not extend enhanced unemployment benefits – the $600 per week meant to help Americans who lost jobs due to the novel coronavirus pandemic’s economic fallout – more than five million jobs would be lost, including more than 1,500 in Nebraska.
Heidi Shierholz, senior economist with the Economic Policy Institute, said the benefit has helped millions pay for food, rent and other essentials. She said cutting off assistance will also make racial inequality worse.
“Because Black and Brown communities are suffering more from this pandemic, both physically and economically,” said Shierholz, “as a result of historic and continuing systemic racism.”
Public News Service
August 3, 2020