In Virginia, the average cost of a year of infant care at a daycare center is more than $14,500, and care for a 4-year-old is around $11,500, according to Child Care Aware of America. A study by the Economic Policy institute found a year of child care in Virginia is about as expensive as a year of college or housing — two other areas with their own affordability crises.
Daily Press
August 17, 2020
Terri Gerstein of the Harvard Labor and Worklife Program and Economic Policy Institute questioned if the companies may also eventually withdraw from other markets where their business model is similarly in limbo: “What’s the long term plan?”
CNN Business
August 17, 2020
Another analysis by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute (EPI) predicted that the cost of inaction is even greater, threatening to cost the country 5.3 million jobs.
Salon
August 17, 2020
Features interview with Valerie Wilson.
KTVU-TV
August 17, 2020
According to the Economic Policy Institute, every year teachers spend nearly $460 out their own pockets for school supplies. Because many schools will start the year distance learning, the needs this year are a bit different.
WJLA
August 17, 2020
Even before Covid-19, teachers were leaving the profession in droves. According to a report by the Economic Policy Institute, the national teacher shortage is looking dire. Every year, fewer and fewer people want to become teachers.
New York Times
August 17, 2020
Yet another form of racial injustice has largely been left out of the conversation: segregation, says Richard Rothstein, a distinguished fellow at the nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute and author of “The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America.”
“It’s not being talked about enough,” Rothstein says. “The attention to racial inequality that the Black Lives Matter movement has generated provides the opportunity to begin to consider the underlying residential segregation that perpetuates so much of the inequality, including police abuse, in this country.”
U.S. News & World Report
August 17, 2020
In a webinar Friday by the union-based Economic Policy Institute, economists ranging from George W. Bush economic advisor Glenn Hubbard to Barack Obama economic advisor Jason Furman said money from Washington was crucial to avoiding worsening the economic meltdown.
“We just went off the fiscal cliff” for states and cities, said Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody’s Analytics. “And there is going to be real damage to the economy.”
The City
August 17, 2020
Eighteen organizations have issued a joint public comment on the Employee Benefits Security Administration’s proposed rule entitled “Improving Investment Advice for Workers and Retirees”. The comment was written on Aug. 5, 2020, and posted on Aug. 10, 2020:
The comment was co-signed by the Alliance for Retired Americans, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund, Center for Economic Integrity, Center for Economic Justice, the Committee for the Fiduciary Standard, Consumer Action, Delaware Community Reinvestment Action Council, Inc., Economic Policy Institute, Georgia Watch, International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers, Lynn Turner, Montrose Cones, National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, Pension Rights Center, Public Citizen, Take on Wall Street.
Insurance News Net
August 17, 2020