“Things are improving right now because that’s where we are in the business cycle — and I don’t know how to put it without sounding partisan — but he literally can’t take credit for that,” Heidi Shierholz, senior economist at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, told Morning Shift.
Politico
February 5, 2020
Trump has presided over a solid economy since taking office in 2017 but mischaracterized the state of the economy under President Obama and overstated his accomplishments. In truth, the economy has mounted a steady recovery since the Great Recession of 2007-09, marking the longest expansion in American history.
“You have seen a continuation of the trend,” says Elise Gould, senior economist at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
USA Today
February 5, 2020
The U.S. lost 3.7 million jobs since 2001 due to its trade imbalance with China, with the manufacturing sector suffering the worst job losses, the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, D.C., said in a report last week.
Breitbart
February 5, 2020
The Atlantic
February 5, 2020
Leftists argue that economic inequality comes from a corrupt system. They have increasingly persuaded gullible voters to support socialism by hammering away at high CEO compensation. In a 2019 report[5] entitled “Reining in CEO compensation and curbing the rise of inequality” three economists at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) opine:[6]
“We should end the corruption of a corporate governance system that fails to subject CEO pay to the same labor market pressures everyone else is subject to.”
Townhall Finance
February 5, 2020
Executive pay is up nearly tenfold since 1979 according to the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal research organization, and by one measure, it grew 10 percent in 2018. But it remained lower in 2018 than it was in 2007.
The New York Times
February 5, 2020
But the wage gains made among workers in the bottom 20% of earners over the last two decades were largely due to minimum wage increases enacted at the state level, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank.
“These are policies that were implemented by state legislatures and local governments around the country to help offset the effects of a decline in the real value of the federal minimum wage,” the EPI wrote in a statement issued before the SOTU.
Route Fifty
February 5, 2020
In preparation for President Trump’s State of the Union speech, the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) assembled research from the last year that examines the real state of the union for working people on wages, manufacturing and trade, taxes, labor standards, housing, and immigration.
St. Louis/Southern Illinois Labor Tribune
February 5, 2020
In a notice sent out last week by the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank closely aligned with the AFL-CIO labor federation and the Democratic Party, Heidi Shierholz, the director of policy at the EPI Policy Center, said that the decline in union membership was “bad news for the middle class of the United States” (emphasis added). Ms. Shierholz said more than she intended.
World Socialist Website
February 5, 2020
Schools face budgets stricter than even the leanest startups. Nearly all teachers have to spend some their own money on classroom supplies. According to research from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), teachers in high-poverty districts spend about $523 per year in unreimbursed expenses, while teachers in low-poverty areas spend $434.
Business.com
February 5, 2020