In Pennsylvania, early childhood education teachers who have bachelor’s degrees earn 22% less than K-8 teachers, according to the report, which was produced by left-leaning think tank the Economic Policy Institute and University of California Berkeley’s Center for the Study of Child Care Employment.
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
January 21, 2020
Parents in the U.S. pay a staggering amount for care for their young children—and here, as in so many other areas, the support they get from their government falls short of what peer nations provide. A new report from the Economic Policy Institute shows just how big the problem is, and what it’s costing the economy.
Daily Kos
January 21, 2020
Josh Bivens at Economic Policy Institute writes—Yes, David Brooks, there really is a class war:
New York Times columnist David Brooks, in an article sub-titled “No, Virginia, there is no class war,” recently trotted out an old argument about why wage growth has been so sluggish for so many U.S. workers for so long: they’re just not very good workers. Specifically, he argues that “wages are still mostly determined by skills and productivity.” Ergo, if there is growing inequality in wages, it must be driven by inequality in workers’ own productivity.
Daily Kos
January 21, 2020
Public
January 21, 2020
“As unions have declined, its been an important contributor to the rise of inequality and wage stagnation to those but the highest paid workers,” said Heidi Shierholz, the policy director of the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute and former chief economist at the Labor Department during the Obama administration.
Market Insider
January 21, 2020
To illustrate the dollars-and-cents reality of the issue, the letter points out that the annual mean wage for a graduate teaching assistant in the New York City metropolitan area is $38,370 – well below what the Economic Policy Institute considers an adequate standard of living for the region ($51,323).
Cape May County Herald
January 21, 2020
Robert Scott with the Economic Policy Institute says he believes the effects won’t bring the economic boost that many are hoping for.
“The Chinese have left themselves some loopholes,” he said. “They said their purchases will depend on market conditions, that’s a big gray area.”
Gray DC
January 21, 2020
I didn’t need my little survey to know that, however. I can look at the data produced by the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington-based think tank that produced an excellent research-based piece entitled The State of American Retirement Savings—How the Shift to 401(k)s Has Increased Gaps in Retirement Preparedness Based on Income, Race, Ethnicity, Education and Marital Status. In other words, we don’t simply have a retirement crisis, but we have a retirement inequality crisis.
Human Resource Executive
January 21, 2020
That’s compared to 13.8% nationally, according a report the Economic Policy Institute published in April.
NOLA.com
January 21, 2020
Back in December of 2012, the then vice president of the union-funded Economic Policy Institute, Ross Eisenbrey was very critical of Michigan’s Right to Work law. Mr. Eisenbrey wrote the following:
Right–to-work-for-less laws are about nothing more than weakening unions, lowering wages, and freeing corporate America to turn back the clock on employee rights and regulation of labor standards
WBCK 95.3
January 21, 2020