Lawrence Mishel, a distinguished fellow at the Economic Policy Institute, agreed. He told Popular Science he thinks the calendar would cheat workers out of some vacation days.
“This would never pass a popular vote,” he told Popular Science in 2017. “Nor should it.”
CNN
March 4, 2020
MEL Magazine
March 4, 2020
Yet, the evidence suggests otherwise. Nearly half of U.S. families have no retirement savings, according to research from the Economic Policy Institute.4 What’s behind the disconnect between the fear of outliving assets and the apparent lack of action needed to address this concern? As financial advisors, we know the most common reasons:…
Advisor Magazine
March 4, 2020
Nearly half of families in America don’t have any retirement savings at all, according to a study from the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
Markets Insider
March 4, 2020
In order to rank these cities, MagnifyMoney analyzed data from the Joint Center of Housing Studies for median rent and the Economic Policy Institute. To find the estimated take-home pay after payroll tax, MagnifyMoney assumed 16% withholding in Social Security, Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA), Medicare and federal income tax.
CNBC
March 4, 2020
“There’s a lot of turnover in a low wage labor market,” Heidi Shierholz, senior economist and director of policy at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute (EPI), told Yahoo Finance. “So if we have an employment decline in a labor market like that, it doesn’t necessarily mean people are getting pink slips. You have people going in and out of jobs, so there are fewer jobs. It just means that people spend a little more time looking for jobs than they otherwise would have. But then when they do get the jobs, they make a lot more money.”
Yahoo News
March 4, 2020
New analysis of the latest census data by Capital & Main (a nonprofit news organization where I serve as publisher) and the Economic Policy Institute has found that growth in median household income, adjusted for inflation, fell in 48 of the 50 states during Trump’s first two years in office compared with the last two years of Barack Obama’s presidency. Nationally, median household income grew at a rate of just 2.7% in Trump’s first two years, compared with a 5.8% growth rate in Obama’s last two years.
The Spokesmam-Review
March 4, 2020
That means earning $44,714 in Dutchess, $45,039 Orange, $59,611 in Putnam, $58,305 in Rockland, $38,958 in Sullivan, $41,580 in Ulster and $48,036 in Westchester counties, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit research group. The EPI considers everything from health care to transportation costs.
Times Herald-Record
March 4, 2020
In a study released last month, the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) found that American families spend approximately $42 billion annually on child care for their children. That figure does not include the $34 billion spent by federal and state governments on child care support systems, services, and subsidies. According to EPI, parents of young children forgo $30 to 35 billion each year in income due to the high cost of early childhood care and education, a figure that translates into an estimated $4.2 billion in lost federal tax revenue.
“Despite what we heard at the State of the Union, the truth is that this economy is not performing well for most Americans,” said EPI President Thea Lee. “At this point in the business cycle, wage and income growth for working households should be accelerating, not slowing.”
Salon
March 4, 2020