But everything changed in the summer of 2014, when protests erupted in Ferguson, Missouri, over the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown. “We suddenly started talking about race again in this country,” said Rothstein, who published an article that fall titled ”The Making of Ferguson″ for the Economic Policy Institute, where he is a Distinguished Fellow. “I drew on a lot of research that I had done for the book, and that got very widely circulated online. … It changed agents’ attitude towards whether this was a viable book.”
In the article and in The Color of Law, which came out in 2017, Rothstein argues that the segregation of America is not due merely to private prejudices, commonly referred to as de facto segregation. Rather, the racial segregation of our country came about because of the explicit intent of federal, state and local governments, i.e. de jure segregation.
Columbus Alive
March 6, 2020
St. Paul teachers Remi Eichten (L) and Mary Rddad prepare signs for a potential strike beginning March 10. The #RedForEd movement to restore public school funding sparked strikes across the country, with some 237,400 educators joining strikes in North Carolina, West Virginia, Los Angeles, Chicago, Kentucky and Oregon last year, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Workday Minnesota
March 6, 2020
Much of the current research on income reveals it as the primary driver for racial wealth disparities. At the same time, focusing on income, specifically minimum wage legislation, has the rhetorical “benefit” of not singling out any particular demographic disproportionately targeting earners of color. Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2024 would increase the incomes of all black workers by 38.1 percent, and white workers by 23.2 percent, according to the Economic Policy Institute. This increase should also result in a corresponding decrease in dependence on any government sponsored means-tested programs, and so should theoretically appeal to conservatives looking to reduce the size of government.
Defender Network
March 6, 2020
As with most of the country, the economy in Minnesota has grown since the Great Recession ended – but at a slower pace than earlier in the recovery, and with benefits disproportionately flowing to those at the top. The state’s economy grew 20 percent from 2009 to 2018, just shy of the national average of 22 percent for that period, according to the D.C.-based Economic Policy Institute (EPI).
March 6, 2020
For a 4-year-old, the annual cost for pre-K is $6,764 in Michigan, or $564 each month, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, D.C. That’s over 10 percent of the median household income in Michigan in 2019, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Holland Sentinel
March 6, 2020
Following is a list of the prepared testimony:
https://waysandmeans.house.gov/legislation/hearings/us-china-trade-and-competition
The Complete Witness List Includes:
Thea Lee
President, Economic Policy Institute (EPI) and Commissioner, U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission
Motor and Equipment Manufacturers Association
March 6, 2020
“Taking needed sick time means workers go without pay or must show up at work while sick and delay seeking treatment for themselves or their dependents,” economists Elise Gould and Jessica Schieder wrote in a 2017 paper for the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.
Wisconsin Examiner
March 6, 2020
“There’s a reason why people are going to work when they or their kids are sick, if they don’t have paid sick days,” says Elise Gould, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, speaking with MarketWatch. “They have to put food on the table and a roof over their head.”
PayScale
March 6, 2020