The Abrams campaign pulled this information from the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank that researches economic trends. The EPI’s data says that in Georgia, infant care costs an average of $7,644 a year, 15.6 percent more than the state’s annual average in-state tuition.
The EPI’s estimated infant costs come from Child Care Aware of America’s 2015 “Parents and the High Cost of Child Care” report. The report calculates the averages of two types of infant care, care offered at a facility and care offered at someone’s home.The $7,644 used by the EPI is the more expensive type of infant care, care offered at a facility. According to the report, the average cost of childcare provided in a caregiver’s home in Georgia is $5,980 a year.
Politifact
February 5, 2020
Economic Policy Institute: A July 2019 report from the institute puts the average cost of infant child care in Wisconsin at $12,597 a year. The report states that care for one infant would take up 18.5% of a median family’s income in Wisconsin. Wisconsin is ranked 20th out of 50 states and the District of Columbia for most expensive infant care.
Politifact
February 5, 2020
The paper quoted the Economic Policy Institute statistic that says Massachusetts has the second-highest child care costs in the nation, with a statewide average cost of $17,062 per year for one child.
Cape Cod Times
February 5, 2020
The trade deficit with China has ballooned since then, costing an estimated 3.7 million U.S. jobs between 2001 and 2018, according to a new report by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a Washington-based nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank.
The Epoch Times
February 5, 2020
McClellan cited statistics from the Economic Policy Institute that 17% of domestic workers live in poverty. In Virginia, personal care aides make an average of $21,240 a year, while home health aides earn an average of $23,440 per year, according to the same data.
Daily News-Record
February 5, 2020
— The left-leaning Economic Policy Institute found in a new report that the growing trade deficit with China caused the loss of 3.7 million U.S. jobs between 2001 and 2018, the large majority of which were in the manufacturing sector. The full report is here.
Politico
February 5, 2020
California workers have been especially hard hit by the U.S. trade policy with China, the labor think tank Economic Policy Institute reports.
Cal Matters
February 5, 2020
As the deficit has continued to swell, American workers have suffered, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, D.C., generally considered to be left leaning.
Hellenic Shipping News
February 5, 2020
Arizona lost nearly 66,000 jobs, or 2.2% of the state’s workforce from 2001 to 2018 according to the study by the Economic Policy Institute, a pro-labor research group focused on income inequality and related issues.
AZ Central
February 5, 2020
Generational discrimination has contributed to these numbers, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Only 0.0006 percent of venture capital is granted to firms owned by black women, according to a 2018 study by digitalundivided, even though the number of businesses owned by black women increased by 164 percent between 2007 and 2018, according to an American Express study.
NBC News
February 5, 2020