When claiming there is a teacher shortage, unions often cite a study by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). In the study, EPI researchers Emma Garcia and Elaine Weiss reported that statistics like a shortage of 20,000 schoolteachers in 2012 were far too low to begin with and have gotten much worse.
Garcia and Weiss also found a shortage of qualified teachers. According to their study, one third of teachers nationwide do not have an education background in the main subject they teach. Furthermore, more than 20 percent of teachers have less than five years of teaching experience, and about 9 percent are teaching without the usual state certification.
The Epoch Times
November 13, 2019
Wage theft isn’t one of the crimes most prosecutors and politicians refer to when they talk about getting “tough on crime,” but it represents a massive chunk of all theft committed in the U.S. A 2017 study by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) found that in the ten most populous states, an estimated 2.4 million people lose a combined $8 billion in income every year to theft by their employers. That’s nearly half as much as all other property theft combined last year—$16.4 billion according to the FBI. And again, EPI’s findings are only for ten states. According to the institute, the typical worker victimized by minimum-wage violations is underpaid by $64 per week, totaling $3,300 per year. If its figures are representative of a national phenomenon, then EPI estimates that the yearly total for American wage theft is closer to $15 billion.
GQ
November 13, 2019
Existing analysis of US think tanks suggests that women are underrepresented among senior staff, leadership, and board members. Chantal de Jonge Oudraat and Soraya Kamali-Nafar at Women In International Security examined 22 Washington, DC-based think tanks working on foreign policy and national and international security, and they found that 68 percent of the heads of the think tanks were men, along with 73 percent of the experts and 78 percent of those on governing boards. In 2018, a random sampling of 10 leading US think tanks working on development by Charles Kenny and Tanvi Jaluka suggested that women made up 30 percent of high-paid employees and 10 percent of highest-paid employees, and that higher-paid women earned only 75 percent that of higher-paid men.
| Organization |
Avg. women representation highest compensated employees |
Avg. women’s pay among highest compensated employees |
Avg. men’s pay among highest compensated employees |
Years of data |
| Economic Policy Institute |
0.33 |
162448.09 |
185236.55 |
2010-2016 |
Center for Global Development
November 13, 2019
According to the Economic Policy Institute, CEO compensation is up almost a thousand per cent since 1978, while worker pay has risen only 12 per cent. CEOs today earn more than 200 times what the typical schmo earns – even as recently as 1989, they made only 58 times as much.
Bloomberg
November 13, 2019
In today’s workplace, predictability isn’t a guarantee. Research from the Economic Policy Institute found that around 10% of the U.S. workforce deals with irregular or on-call scheduling, while 7% works split or rotating shifts. No one wins with this lack of stability, which creates challenges for employees and leads to higher turnover rates for their employers.
SupplyChainBrain
November 13, 2019
The Economic Policy Institute finds that the rapid growth in employer-sponsored insurance premiums since 1979 had crowded out almost $390 billion in potential cash-wage increases for American workers by 2016, with employer-based family premiums now comprising over half of most worker’s wages.
Charleston Gazette-Mail
November 13, 2019
Before being elected, Dorsey worked as a senior executive at the Economic Policy Institute, and as a consultant. He said he earned significantly more then, but he did not specify what his salary was.
The Washington Post
November 13, 2019
Parents need real dollars and quality options they can choose from. A 2013 Census Bureau report showed a steep rise in childcare costs for families with a working mother and children younger than 15: from an average of $84 per week in 1985 to $143 in 2011, adjusted for inflation. Parents who wanted nourishing after-school activities for their children paid an average of 7% of their monthly income for it in 2011, which has only gone up. A report this summer from the Economic Policy Institute broke down the cost of childcare by state, with the highest monthly price tag being $2,020 in Washington, D.C.
Medium
November 13, 2019
Although Trump entered office with promises of supporting workers, his administration has instead “sold out the American middle class” in a “bait-and-switch” that has benefited the nation’s wealthiest and left the rest of us behind, said Heidi Shierholz, a senior economist and policy director with the liberal Economic Policy Institute think tank.
Capital and Main
November 13, 2019