Teachers now make 4.5 percent on average less than they did more than 10 years ago, according to the National Education Association, and public school teachers earn 17 percent less than what comparable workers earn, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
The Good Men Project
July 24, 2020
As layoffs continue, some economists fear that reduced payments won’t be enough to help struggling Americans as more states halt reopenings and businesses shutter. In May and June, 7.5 million unemployed Americans went back to work, and roughly 70% of that group would have made more drawing unemployment, according to Heidi Shierholz, senior economist and director of policy for the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
USA Today
July 24, 2020
The Black-white wage gap in 2019 was about 26%, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Indianapolis Recorder
July 24, 2020
Pandemic-related job losses in the U.S. through May haven’t disproportionately affected women with young children. That’s in part because these women already have the lowest labor force participation rates of any group and so it would take a major event to move the needle, said Elise Gould, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a labor-focused think tank.
MarketWatch
July 24, 2020
Executive pay was controversial before the pandemic. The left-leaning Economic Policy Institute said in a report last year that CEOs’ incomes had grown 940 percent since 1978, while workers’ median wages rose just 12 percent.
San Antonio Express-News
July 24, 2020
Business Insider
July 24, 2020
Nearly five million workers aged 65 and older are not able to telecommute, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Many jobs, especially those in the service sector, can’t be done remotely. In fact, only one in three workers have the flexibility to work from home. Those who are at greatest risk don’t always have the option to stay home and would be better protected if we all did our part by taking the precautions recommended by experts. This includes the simple act of wearing a face covering.
Popsugar
July 24, 2020
“Cutting off the $600 cannot incentivize people to get jobs that aren’t there,” Heidi Shierholz, the former chief economist at the Labor Department who now heads the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, told CNBC.
Salon
July 24, 2020
The Economic Policy Institute has highlighted that unions increase productivity through a variety of channels. They reduce turnover and, hence, firm-specific skills are retained. Moreover, the lower turnover makes it economically rational for employers to provide more training to union-represented employees, increasing employee skills and productivity further.[15]
United Steelworkers
July 24, 2020