Let’s take them in turn. On Anderson Cooper’s CNN show recently, Sanders pointed out that Biden had been on the wrong side of almost every major policy question for the last 30 years. He supported free trade agreements with Canada, Mexico, and China that devastated the American industrial base. (A study from the Economic Policy Institute found that the trade deficit with China alone killed 2.7 million American jobs just between 2001 and 2011.) Biden repeatedly pushed for cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and veterans benefits. He voted for the Iraq War — indeed, he voted against attempted amendments that would have added conditions making it harder to invade.
The Week
January 8, 2020
According to research by the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute, among households headed by adults ages 50 to 55, the median retirement savings is only $8,000, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Magnify Money
January 8, 2020
Older workers and those over 50 are more likely to work as independent contractors, separate research from the progressive Economic Policy Institute, a labor policy think tank, concluded. The share of people working as independent contractors, freelancers and other categories of on-call workers who were ages 55 to 64 increased to 22.9% in 2017 from 18.8% in 2005. For people aged 65 and older, the figure rose to 14.1% from 8.5%.
MarketWatch
January 8, 2020
According to the Economic Policy Institute, teachers spend on average $459, annually, on school supplies.
Enid News & Eagle
January 8, 2020
That local schools are involved in Eight Cousins annual giving tree project is not surprising. Most teachers go out of their way to provide students with materials and supplies that might help them learn. It’s also well-publicized that many teachers spend their own money to supplement the supplies for their classrooms. According to the Economic Policy Institute, kindergarten through 12-grade public school teachers spend an average of $459 a year of their own money to purchase school supplies. (The range goes from North Dakota teachers averaging $327 to California averaging $664 out of pocket.)
Tribune Content Agency
January 8, 2020
For a full summary of Trump anti-worker NLRB actions, check out this report from the Economic Policy Institute.
The American Prospect
January 8, 2020
Thanks to the nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute, we also know that as many as 52,000 Wyoming women would see a raise — and most of them would be lifted out of poverty — if the federal minimum wage were to rise to $15 an hour.
Jackson Hole News & Guide
January 8, 2020
The 2020 new year marks an historic landmark for dramatically improving many people’s living standards by increasing the minimum hourly wage. According to David Cooper of the Economic Policy Institute, nearly 7 million workers will start the new year with higher wages. This is not due to Trump’s tax cut which reduced the corporate income tax rate from 35 percent to as low as 20 percent. That change resulted in doubling the number of companies paying zero in taxes, according to research from the Center for Public Integrity.
Daily Kos
January 8, 2020
On New Year’s Day, 6.8 million hourly workers in 22 states received pay increases of up to $1,700 a year as a result of higher minimum wages kicking in, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank. Here in Illinois, the minimum wage rose to $9.25 an hour, on its way to $15 an hour in 2025.
Chicago Sun Times
January 8, 2020
A report recently released from the Economic Roundtable, a nonprofit research center based in Los Angeles, concluded that the wages Amazon pays its highly skilled workers versus warehouse workers perpetuates economic disparities that benefit those at the top but not necessarily those who do the heavy lifting. While Amazon’s starting salary of $15 an hour for manufacturing employees sits above Utah’s minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, full-time employees would still only make about $31,000 annually. That kind of salary is doable for a single person living in Salt Lake City, according to the Economic Policy Institute’s family budget calculator, but it falls far short of covering needs for a single parent with child or a family with one income.
The Salt Lake Tribune
January 8, 2020