If employers keep a worker’s hours under 35 per week, federal law does not require them to offer health insurance, and employers have increasingly used part-time positions to lower payroll costs over the past several decades, according to a 2016 study from the Economic Policy Institute.
Sentinel Source
December 4, 2019
The proportion of teachers who are not fully certified is another indicator that researchers have used to argue that a national shortage is large and growing. According to the Economic Policy Institute, 1 in 10 teachers in high-poverty schools are not fully certified.
AJC
December 4, 2019
Compared to other adults who completed college, teachers’ total compensation is 13 percent lower in 2018, according to the Economic Policy Institute, which may help explain some of the shortages many districts report. A Brookings Institution analysis shows that the wage penalty is even more extreme for science and math teachers.
The 74
December 4, 2019
In many ways, the phrase “good economy” is misleading. One report from the Economic Policy Institute estimated that 85% percent of income gains between 2009 and 2013 went to the top 1% of earners, which means that economic growth, no matter how prolonged, doesn’t always lift everyone equally. While solving this problem isn’t quite as straightforward as opening a mutual fund, it’s one reason to consider supporting a fair economy, not just a good one.
Policygenius
December 4, 2019
The child care system isn’t just holding back women. The Economic Policy Institute reports fixing the system would add more than $1 billion of new economic activity to Alabama.
WZDX
December 4, 2019
“Brazil has been stepping in and taking advantage of the decline of imports from other countries,” said Robert Scott, senior economist and director of trade and manufacturing policy research at the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank.
The Epoch Times
December 4, 2019
Economist Heidi Schierholz of the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute says those benefits were tempered because most of the tax savings “went to the very wealthy,” who tend to save their income gains.
USA Today
December 4, 2019
She is Senior Fellow, Economic Policy Institute and joined Charles to discuss black and brown unemployment rates.
WURD Radio
December 4, 2019
The findings are a new extrapolation from a nationwide survey released in 2018 by the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning economic think tank. The survey demonstrated that the use of “forced arbitration” is becoming an increasingly common hiring practice, denying workers the right to trial by judge and jury. EPI projects that Maine may be ahead of the national trend, with 53.9 percent of businesses in the U.S. estimated to have forced their employees to sign arbitration agreements, compared to 56 percent in Maine.
Beacon
December 4, 2019