- Child Care: If each you and your partner will work after your child’s arrival, your single greatest finances merchandise will likely be youngster care. Your youngster care prices range by the place you reside, the age of your youngster, how a lot care you require, and what kind of care you utilize. Research a number of sources together with the Economic Policy Institute and the Care Index pegs in-center youngster care prices at just below $10,000 per 12 months. Within this common, nevertheless, there are folks in South Carolina paying round $400 a month and others in Washington D.C. paying greater than $1,500 a month. The common value of a nanny or different in-home care is round $28,000 a 12 months, however once more that may be larger or decrease primarily based on location and so forth. Keep in thoughts, although, some prices could be offset by numerous tax credit, such because the youngster and dependent care credit score. Be positive to substantiate in case you are eligible.
The Entrepreneur Fund
February 3, 2020
Turning to the American labor force, bilateral trade with China has been a negative factor. The U.S. economy has shed 3.7 million manufacturing jobs since 2001, when China entered the World Trade Organization, according to Robert Scott, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.
MultiBriefs: Exclusive
February 3, 2020
As CEO pay has grown, so has income inequality — in 2019, it reached a 50-year high. “[E]xcessive CEO pay matters for inequality, not only because it means a large amount of money is going to a very small group of individuals, but also because it affects pay structures throughout the corporation and the economy as a whole,” stated the authors of an Economic Policy Institute (EPI) report. “If a CEO is earning $20 million, then it is likely many other high-level executives are also being paid in the millions.”
Forbes
February 3, 2020
The Economic Policy Institute reiterated what we’ve been hearing for years: that the income from economic growth has gone to the top 1%, while the rank-and-file shares have declined. Thirty years ago “CEOs of large public companies made salaries 45 times as large as the pay median workers in their industries. By 2018, they made 278 times as much. (It is) unlikely this was driven entirely by CEOs’ own productivity.”
The Garden Island
February 3, 2020
Shanele Thompson………Director of Human Resource with the Economic Policy Institute
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WHUR 96.3
February 3, 2020
Doctors’ total compensation rose 16.1 percent between 2013-2017, according to the latest research from the Urban Institute and SullivanCotter, a workforce data company. By comparison, the average worker’s wages rose 5.2 percent over the same period, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Houston Chronicle
February 3, 2020
TRANSITIONS — Eve Tahmincioglu is now communications director at the Economic Policy Institute. She previously was executive editor and digital director for Directors & Boards, Private Company Director and Family Business, and is an NBC alum. … Brennan Murray is now a public policy senior associate at VIPKid. He previously was a senior associate at McLarty Associates China.
Politico
February 3, 2020
“The changes embodied in the USMCA still constitute Band-Aids on a fundamentally flawed agreement and process,” said Thea Lee of the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). “The USMCA will in no way offset or reverse the massive devastation caused by the original NAFTA agreement.”
The McDonough County Voice
January 24, 2020
In a paper analyzing the BLS numbers, Heidi Shierholz, senior economist for the Washington-based Economic Policy Institute, a labor think tank, suggested that “the erosion of union coverage is not because workers don’t want unions anymore – survey data show a higher share of nonunion workers today say they would vote for a union than was the case 40 years ago,” she wrote.
The Kansas City Star
January 24, 2020
According to an analysis conducted by the Economic Policy Institute, teachers are paid almost 20 percent less than other similar professions. In Alabama, the wage gap is closer to 30 percent. And while teachers do typically have better benefit packages, those benefits still do not make up for the pay gap.
Alabama Political Reporter
January 24, 2020