En concreto la comunidad latina es víctima de unos efectos que se califican como “devastadores” por parte de los economistas del Economic Policy Institute (EPI).
El Diario
August 20, 2020
In 2018, a median Hispanic household earned 73 cents for every dollar a median white household earned, according to the Economic Policy Institute. A median Black household earned just 59 cents for every dollar a median white household earned.
KSAT-San Antonio
August 20, 2020
The pay gap between top corporate executives and workers is staggering – in 2019, CEO realized pay increased 14% from 2018 to an average of $21.3 million, a new study by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) shows.
CNBC
August 20, 2020
Nebraska consistently tops the rankings in workforce participation, including ranking second in the percent of married couple families who both work. With parents at work, what are we supposed to do with all these kids? How are families going to pay for all this unexpected childcare? It is already cost burdensome; Nebraska is one of 33 states where childcare costs more than college, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Lincoln Journal Star
August 20, 2020
These statistics started being discussed in class without any regard for Black students. Often, when Black issues are brought up, teachers forget that Black students are living the reality they are debating. It was never brought up that Black and Brown people make up the majority of the nation’s essential workers — from food and agriculture to commercial and service industries, according to the Economic Policy Institute. This makes them extremely susceptible to COVID-19. In predominantly white schools, Black and brown people are put in a box for white students to pity without giving context to why they are in the box in the first place.
YR Media
August 20, 2020
DON’T FORGET TO JOIN ME THURSDAY — I’ll be hosting a virtual Democratic Convention briefing on Thursday at 1:00 p.m. on what a Biden administration would do with the economy featuring Jared Bernstein, who served as chief economic adviser to Biden in the White House; Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.), Vice Chair of the Joint Economic Committee; and Heidi Shierholz, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute and former chief Department of Labor economist under Obama. RSVP here.
Politico
August 20, 2020
The Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, found that chief executives of the United States’ 350 largest companies earned an average of $21.3 million in realized compensation in 2019, setting the ratio of CEO-to-worker pay at 320 to 1, up from 293 to 1 in 2018 and more than five times as high as the 61-to-1 ratio in 1989.
The Washington Post
August 20, 2020
Other industrialized countries have also seen rising inequality, but the decline in worker power is particularly acute in the United States. From the 1980s to the late 2010s, the labor share of income in the United States—essentially, the percentage of overall income that ends up going to workers—fell by four percentage points, in effect a decline of hundreds of billions of dollars per year. Over the same period, U.S. workers lost key protections: collective-bargaining agreements cover less than 12 percent of workers (and only seven percent of private-sector workers) in the United States, compared with 98 percent in France, 80 percent in Italy, and 56 percent in Germany.
Foreign Affairs
August 20, 2020
CEOs at the top 350 firms in the US were paid $21.3 million on average last year, a 14% increase over the year before, as top executives continue to see their compensation skyrocket, according to a report out Tuesday by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
Fox Business
August 20, 2020