The long-term trend of wages not keeping up with the prices of essentials hasn’t improved much, as it’s been reported that minimum-wage workers can’t afford a two-bedroom apartment anywhere in the US. (The Economic Policy Institute—7/19/18, 2/5/19—found that if the minimum wage tracked productivity growth since the 1960s, it would now be over $20 an hour.)
Common Dreams
November 20, 2019
The Economic Policy Institute also noted in their 2018 family budget analysis that there is “nowhere in the country” where a minimum-wage worker would earn enough to meet their family’s basic needs.
Capital Gazette
November 20, 2019
It’s no secret that childcare costs are getting out of hand in the United States, with soaring costs fueled largely by a lack of supply. In Washington, D.C., for example, parents are spending an average of $22,631 a year per child according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Distractify
November 20, 2019
According to the Economic Policy Institute, in a report from earlier this year, the median black worker made just 75% of what an equivalent white worker did, and that number is lower than when it was measured in 2000.
Houston Style Magazine
November 19, 2019
The latest Sanders economic justice initiative takes on the corporate pay practices that contribute so much to income inequality. In 1965, the Economic Policy Institute notes, top US CEOs took home 20 times the average worker’s pay in their industry.
The Nation
November 19, 2019
The NLRB reported another 11% drop in the filing of unfair labor practices in 2018. The General Counsel for the Machinists has reportedly commented that we shouldn’t worry, because a lot of this will go away if Trump wins a second term. Personally, I’m not feeling as secure about that as my brother machinist is. Meanwhile, the Economic Policy Institute has suggested that the NLRB and the General Counsel have been following the work order set by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce point by point.
People’s World
November 19, 2019
If you go to a 2011 report from the Economic Policy Institute, they estimated a loss of 682,000 jobs [from NAFTA].
WJAS
November 19, 2019
In Seattle and San Francisco, which have high minimum wages and no subminimum wage, tipped workers receive higher take-home pay than their counterparts in cities like D.C., according to the bipartisan Economic Policy Institute. The institute also reported 20 percent lower poverty rates compared to cities with a separate tipped wage, plus a significant decline in reports of sexual harassment—all without damaging business.
FSR Magazine
November 19, 2019
The U.S. in the midst of a growing teacher shortage, which according to researchers at the Economic Policy Institute is only getting bigger. By some estimates there are as many as 100,000 job vacancies for qualified teachers going unfilled. Today, there are more teachers leaving the profession for reasons other than retirement compared with the 1980s. To some experts, at least part of that retention crisis is caused by teacher dissatisfaction—which is also on the rise. And demoralization could be a serious contributing factor.
EdSurge
November 19, 2019