Several items reported by other sources should cause more concern for unionized employers, especially those with contracts expiring in 2020. First, Bloomberg reports that almost 90 percent of work stoppages occur in workplaces with fewer than 1,000, and the number of work stoppages in 2019 was almost as high as 2018 (which had the highest level since 2012). Second, the Economic Policy Institute suggests that the large number of strikes – despite a general decrease in the number of unionized workers to the lowest level since BLS started tracking the statistic in 1983 to about 10.2 percent of the US workforce – is in part because employees are not as afraid for their jobs because of low unemployment rates.
JD Supra
February 19, 2020
But despite the 1954 landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, the nation’s schools remain heavily segregated by race and ethnicity, according to an instructive brief published by Economic Policy Institute (EPI) to highlight education issues for Black History Month.
The Progressive Pulse
February 19, 2020
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., does indeed have ambitious spending plans. The key thing people should realize, however, is that these plans are largely not introducing new costs on American families. Instead, they’re rearranging current costs already baked in, with an aim to managing them more fairly and efficiently.
USA Today
February 19, 2020
“It’s well understood that income inequality is a severe problem in this country, and there are lots of different forms of income inequality,” said Ben Zipperer, an expert with the Economic Policy Institute. “And, one of those forms is that people at the bottom of the income distribution aren’t being paid enough or it’s difficult for them to find jobs to sustain themselves and their families throughout the entire year.”
Zipperer, along with Jesse Rothstein from the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at the University of California, Berkeley, recently published a report with the Economic Policy Institute exploring how minimum wage and the EITC may work together to alleviate poverty.
“Because it is a large problem, you kind of want to look at as many policies as possible that we gave,” Zipperer said. “You want to have as many arrows in the quiver as possible, in order to attack that problem and reduce it.”
CardRates.com
February 18, 2020
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky lost nearly 47,000 jobs between 2001 and 2018 because of the ongoing trade deficit with China, according to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute.
Public News Service
February 13, 2020
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky lost nearly 47,000 jobs between 2001 and 2018 because of the ongoing trade deficit with China, according to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute.
Public News Service
February 13, 2020
We discuss the fallout of the epidemic beyond the public health dimensions. How does it affect China’s role in the world? Should we expect any economic impact? [Video]
Join Steve Clemons and his panel of experts as they get to The Bottom Line.
Robert Scott – senior economist for the Economic Policy Institute
Al Jazeera
February 13, 2020
According to a study released last year by the Economic Policy Institute nearly 14% of America’s teachers are either leaving their school or leaving teaching altogether, and school systems are having a hard time replacing them.
ABC St. Louis
February 12, 2020
The plan would also extend the time beneficiaries need to spend in intensive care units before they’re authorized to have long-term care at skilled nursing facilities thereafter, said Monique Morrissey, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute. Right now, the requirement is three consecutive days (not including the day of discharge), but the proposal changes that to eight days.
MarketWatch
February 12, 2020