“The minimum wage absolutely could be at play,” said economist Elise Gould with the Economic Policy Institute, a group focused on gains for low and middle income workers. “In states that raised the minimum wage, lower income wages rose faster than in those that didn’t.”
Politifact
February 5, 2020
Arizona now has the fifth highest minimum wage in the country, tying with Maine and Colorado, which share the $12 hourly wage, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Only Washington, California and Massachusetts are higher.
In Maricopa
February 5, 2020
Trump frequently makes the claim that his presidency has been a boon for black workers, whose unemployment rate is at an all-time low. But as the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute points out, this doesn’t tell the whole story, since black workers are still twice as likely as their white counterparts to be without a job, a disparity that persists throughout all education levels.
NBC News
February 5, 2020
In addition to raising the wage, it is critical that lawmakers remove exemptions that have historically prevented many women, particularly women of color, from earning the minimum wage. The domestic worker exemption is one such example. A large majority of in-home workers in Virginia are women, and many are people of color, according to a published 2013 study by the Economic Policy Institute. In fact, 99% of nannies, 93% of maids and other house cleaners not hired through agencies, and 86% of non-agency direct-care aides in Virginia are women. There are over 17,000 people employed in private households in Virginia as cooks, maids, nannies, butlers, and outside workers such as gardeners, caretakers, and other maintenance workers. There are also about 7,000 non-agency direct care aides in Virginia. And there are additional workers in other industry categories who may be currently left out of minimum wage protections by Virginia’s domestic worker exclusion. These women deserve to be paid a fair wage.
Blue Virginia
February 5, 2020
A 2017 report by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute summarized findings from national and international studies that showed limited improvements at best from voucher programs. Where there were gains in academic performance, the report attributed them to more government oversight and accountability, not less.
The Washington Post
February 5, 2020
For the average family in Iowa, and across the country, child care is not just expensive, it’s unaffordable. Day care for a baby averages about $10,000 a year, which is more than a year of in-state tuition at a four-year college, and more than most families in Iowa spend on rent or a mortgage. And that’s just with one kid. With two, the Economic Policy Institute estimates that a typical family spends 28% of its income on child care, four times what the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services considers “affordable.”
Marketplace
February 5, 2020
Meanwhile, Sen. Marco Rubio weighed in on the Economic Policy Institute report released on Thursday that found 3.7 million U.S. jobs have been lost to China since 2001. The Florida Republican is among those on Capitol Hill who have been critical of China, and expressed his concerns about the Phase 1 deal in a recent op-ed in The New York Times.
Responding to EPI’s latest findings, Rubio told AAM in a statement on Monday that unfair trade with China “has been a catastrophe for the United States and our manufacturing industry, robbing millions of Americans of dignified work.”
Alliance for American Manufacturing
February 5, 2020
Meanwhile, Sen. Marco Rubio weighed in on the Economic Policy Institute report released on Thursday that found 3.7 million U.S. jobs have been lost to China since 2001. The Florida Republican is among those on Capitol Hill who have been critical of China, and expressed his concerns about the Phase 1 deal in a recent op-ed in The New York Times.
MarketScreener
February 5, 2020
The United States lost about 451 manufacturing and 145 other jobs a day since sponsoring China’s entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001, the Economic Policy Institute reported.
But the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) found the 3.7 million U.S. job losses corresponds to the $17 trillion in U.S. trade deficits with China, and $17 trillion growth of U.S. national debt from 2011 through 2018.
EPI documents show that the worst state for percentage job losses as a result of China’s entry into the WTO was New Hampshire, which is set to hold the first Democrat presidential primary on Feb. 11. Unlike other states that had pockets of concentrated WTO job losses, EPI’s interactive map reveals that the losses blanketed the state’s high-skill mill towns such as Nashua, Manchester, Laconia, Portsmouth, and Concord.
The Epoch Times
February 5, 2020
Un informe publicado por Economic Policy Institute indica que el efecto del comercio de China en los trabajadores estadounidenses, luego que Beijing se unió en 2001 a la Organización Mundial del Comercio fue negativo, especialmente para California en volumen de empleos perdidos, pese a su actual récord de desempleo.
“California ha sido particularmente impactada porque, sorprendentemente, las industrias más afectadas han sido las de electrónica”, indicó Robert Scott, director de investigación de comercio y fabricación del Economic Policy Institute y coautor del informe junto con el analista de datos Zane Mokhiber según Los Angeles Times.
La Gran Epoca
February 5, 2020