Meanwhile, groups like Economic Roundtable and the Economic Policy Institute have issued reports claiming that the jobs that Amazon brings when it builds a warehouse do not, on balance, benefit the community.
Fox Business
December 2, 2019
Housing is a possible avenue to solution, and affordable housing is a leading community issue which has gained momentum, yet that movement does not address the chronically homeless. Instead, they focus on housing for lower- and middle-class families unable to find homes in Jackson due to the income disparity in the area, which the Economic Policy Institute said is the worst in the country.
Buckrail
December 2, 2019
Cronkite News
December 2, 2019
According to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) — a liberal think tank affiliated with teachers’ unions — public-school teachers earn, on average, 21.4 percent less than private-sector workers in other fields who have similar educational and demographic characteristics. According to EPI, by offering higher pay, public schools could attract and retain better teachers, leading to better test scores, higher graduation rates, and better jobs for the future. It’s a compelling argument, at least to the news media, who echo it in their coverage.
National Review
December 2, 2019
Bivens is the director of research at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) and said it’s hard to argue that the economy is quite strong, but noted one thing that would make it stronger would be more spending from the top down.
WJLA
December 2, 2019
In today’s workplace, predictability isn’t a guarantee. Research from the Economic Policy Institute found that around 10 percent of the U.S. workforce deals with irregular or on-call scheduling, while seven percent work split or rotating shifts. No one wins with this lack of stability — it creates challenges for employees and leads to higher turnover rates for their employers.
IEN
December 2, 2019
“I definitely think millennials have a bunch to be uniquely annoyed about,” said Josh Bivens, research director at the Economic Policy Institute. “Lots of them graduated into a horrible labor market, and they’ve probably been very stunted in their ability to get on the treadmill of earning enough to actually save anything.”
VICE
December 2, 2019
When Trump signed the executive order, Stephen Yale-Loehr, an immigration law professor at Cornell University, thought the administration would implement its proposed changes through the usual rulemaking process. “I guess I was naive, because instead of doing that, they simply reinterpreted the existing regulations more narrowly,” he says. “Normally I’d ask for more scrutiny of H-1B visas,” says Daniel Costa, director of immigration law and policy at the Economic Policy Institute, a pro-labor think tank. “But this administration, with its anti-immigration bent of mind, is probably not the best one to do it.”
Reveal
December 2, 2019
There is research to support Townsend’s claim. Right-to-work states, which are almost all outside the pro-union Northeast and West Coast, have wages that are, on average, 3.1% lower than pro-union states, according to a 2015 study by the liberal Economic Policy Institute.
Huffington Post
November 27, 2019