Rothstein, a research associate with the Economic Policy Institute, has documented a lengthy list of historical examples which suggest that housing segregation was not only intentional, but that it still remains at the heart of so many racially oriented disparities within our nation: education, income, health and more.
Palo Alto Online
June 29, 2020
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to shutter businesses for good, the loss of Massachusetts’s childcare facilities would be a devastating blow to an industry that was already in crisis pre-pandemic. The Commonwealth is the second most expensive state in the country for infant care, costing on average $20,913 annually, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
North End Waterfront
June 29, 2020
A 2019 report from the Government Accountability Office said 48% of Americans ages 55 and older don’t have any retirement savings or a pension plan. And those who do have retirement savings don’t have enough—with those between 56 and 61 years old having an average of $163,577, according to the Economic Policy Institute. According to AARP, a rule of thumb says you’ll need 70% to 80% of your pre-retirement income once you retire.
Barron’s
June 29, 2020
The boost in unemployment benefits “was a really important thing to do when we were closing the economy back in March,” Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia said Wednesday on CNBC. “I don’t think that the $600 benefit is the answer going forward,” he added.
Josh Bivens, director of research at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, couldn’t disagree more. “Cutting off a policy support that helps households maintain spending is a terrible idea, both for these households’ welfare and for macroeconomic stabilization.”
MarketWatch
June 29, 2020
Deeper dive: The film’s blistering depiction of growing up in inner-city Los Angeles raises questions about the impacts of growing up in economically challenged areas, which the Economic Policy Institute has examined.
Connecticut Post
June 29, 2020
Additionally, more than two-thirds of Americans in the U.S. workforce do not hold a college degree, a 2016 report from the Economic Policy Institute shows.
Fox Business
June 29, 2020
Sixty-four percent of Americans believe legal immigrants currently in the country are mostly filling jobs that U.S. citizens do not want, according to a recent Pew Research study. Also, as the progressive think tank Economic Policy Institute points out, a fundamental flaw of the H-1B program is that it allows U.S. employers to legally underpay workers relative to U.S. workers in similar occupations in the same region.
Yahoo Finance
June 29, 2020
Research by Daniel Costa, of the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, and Howard University political science professor Ron Hira, found that 60% of H-1B workers receive lower-than-average wages for their job and region. Google, Facebook and Apple “take advantage of program rules in order to legally pay many of their H-1B workers below the local median wage for the jobs they fill,” Costa and Hira said in an Economic Policy Institute paper.
The Mercury News
June 29, 2020
All of that money is set to disappear when those benefits expire next month, according to Josh Bivens, director of research at the Economic Policy Institute. “That’s going to be a really sharp blow to personal income when that happens,” he said. After that, he continued, there’s another economic blow on the way.
Marketplace
June 29, 2020
Heidi Shierholz is director of policy at the Economic Policy Institute and former chief economist at the Department of Labor.
94.1 KPFA
June 29, 2020