That’s in large part because women play an outsized hand in education and health services, filling more than three-quarters of those roles. Elise Gould of the Economic Policy Institute notes that construction and manufacturing companies added 356,000 jobs over the last two years. But education and health added more than 600,000 jobs over that period.
Society for Human Resource Management
January 13, 2020
That’s in large part because women play an outsized hand in education and health services, filling more than three-quarters of those roles. Elise Gould of the Economic Policy Institute notes that construction and manufacturing companies added 356,000 jobs over the last two years. But education and health added more than 600,000 jobs over that period.
“Since 2010, women’s and men’s employment have both increased, with men’s growing faster than women’s initially. In the last couple of years, women’s payroll employment has grown just a bit faster than men’s,” she said in an analysis of the December job data.
CBS News
January 13, 2020
“As would-be workers become scarcer, we would expect employers to have to work harder to attract and retain the workers they want,” wrote Elise Gould Economic Policy Institute in a blog post after the December jobs report release. “Wage growth is the most important indicator to watch in 2020.”
CNN
January 13, 2020
“As would-be workers become scarcer, we would expect employers to have to work harder to attract and retain the workers they want,” says Elise Gould, senior economist with the nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute. “Wage growth is the most important indicator to watch in 2020.”
MoneyWise
January 13, 2020
The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) responded to the November jobs report with a somber reality check for those celebrating the low levels of unemployment.
“Nominal wages rose 3.1% year-over-year in November, which is slower than expected in an economy that has had historically low unemployment,” EPI wrote before continuing. “It is important to remember that periods of stronger wage growth for production/nonsupervisory workers in this recovery tend to be followed by periods of relatively weaker growth. Definitely a promising sign if the stronger trends continue, but the slowdown for all private sector workers is still troubling.”
News One
January 13, 2020
Of course, Donald Trump’s National Labor Relations Board’s top enforcement official, the general counsel, sides with Uber, Postmates, Lyft, and other gig firms and against the workers. Larry Mishel of the Economic Policy Institute spotlighted the GC’s internal memo, which told staffers to consider gig workers as “independent contractors,” in September.
Mishel said the NLRB’s general counsel “either ignores, dismisses, or misstates the realities Uber drivers face, in order to wrongly conclude they are independent contractors.” Misclassifying them “robs Uber drivers and similar workers of the rights afforded to them by the National Labor Relations Act to engage in collective action—like collective bargaining—to improve their working conditions.”
People’s World
January 10, 2020
The Economic Policy Institute study reveals that male teachers earn nearly 25% less than comparable male workers. Female teachers do a little better — they earn about 14% less — but that’s less impressive when you take into account that all female employees earn less than male employees to begin with. The teacher pay penalty is very real. But why?
MultiBriefs: Exclusive
January 10, 2020
According to the Economic Policy Institute, the top 20% of prime-age households by income have 70% of 401k/IRA savings while the bottom 40% of the population hold just 11% of these retirement savings. Only 54% of households aged 32 to 61 have any type of retirement savings, racial disparities are severe: only 41% of Black families and 35% of Hispanic families have any retirement savings.
Forbes
January 10, 2020
And yet the prospects for black women’s health and prosperity remain the worst across the Midwest, the region that was also deemed the worst to live in for all African Americans in a recent report from the Economic Policy Institute. While Pittsburgh ranks among the lowest for black women’s life chances in our rankings, it is not considered a Midwest city. Yet it aligns better socioeconomically with the Midwest than it does with its neighbors to the east in Pennsylvania such as Harrisburg and Philadelphia. As the EPI report, released in October, explains:
We trace the origins of racial inequality in the Midwest to the deep imprint of racial segregation, which concentrated the regions’ African American population in relatively few urban counties—and then erected a forbidding architecture of residential segregation within those urban settings. In turn, the historical arc of economic opportunity saw African Americans flock to new opportunities in the industrializing Midwest in the middle years of the last century, and then be disproportionately hit by the de-industrialization that followed.
CityLab
January 10, 2020
Rounding out the bottom of the pile were mostly Midwestern cities, alongside Pittsburgh, which shares many broad characteristics with the Midwest. An Economic Policy Institute report, cited by City Lab, laid out the overarching causes for the Midwest’s abysmal performance for black women:
We trace the origins of racial inequality in the Midwest to the deep imprint of racial segregation, which concentrated the regions’ African American population in relatively few urban counties—and then erected a forbidding architecture of residential segregation within those urban settings. In turn, the historical arc of economic opportunity saw African Americans flock to new opportunities in the industrializing Midwest in the middle years of the last century, and then be disproportionately hit by the de-industrialization that followed.
Cleveland Scene
January 10, 2020