The NEA also pointed to a recent Economic Policy Institute report that concludes teachers are paid more than 21 percent less than other professionals with similar education and experience.
The Center Square
October 30, 2019
The NEA also pointed to a recent Economic Policy Institute report that concludes teachers are paid more than 21 percent less than other professionals with similar education and experience.
The Center Square
October 30, 2019
Massachusetts is the second most expensive state for child care in the United States, with families paying nearly $21,000 annually for just one infant in a day-care center, according to a 2019 report from the Economic Policy Institute.
Boston Globe
October 30, 2019
President Donald Trump’s National Labor Relations Board has catered to the requests of a prominent business lobbying group and “systematically” eroded workers’ rights, according to a report from the Economic Policy Institute released Wednesday.
Newsweek
October 30, 2019
The current strike wave is certainly not limited to teachers. About two dozen sanitation workers for Republic Services in Marshfield, Massachusetts, have been on strike since August 29. They’re demanding affordable health care and a living wage. Teamsters 25, the union that represents the employees, cites Economic Policy Institute data which shows that the workers with one child are making 40% less than the state’s living wage. Republic Services’ biggest single shareholder is billionaire Bill Gates, who makes $100 million annually off dividends from his shares. Last month, two dozen of the striking workers protested outside of a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gala in New York City, holding signs that read, “Bill Gates treats kids like trash.” Striking employee Bernard Egan-Mulligan told New York Daily News, “We’re here because Bill Gates is a 32% stockholder in our company. We figure our shareholders would like to know what’s going on.”
In These Times
October 30, 2019
According to a study conducted by the Economic Policy Institute, the average Uber driver makes $9.21 per hour after expenses. For most jobs in Los Angeles, the workers make a minimum wage of $14.25 per hour.
Daily Bruin
October 30, 2019
In fact, some people — including those from the Economic Policy Institute — have posited that a minimum wage increase will actually lead to an increase in employment because of the effects of giving low-wage workers a raise. Other advantages to restaurants may include lower turnover rates and better job performance.
UPI
October 30, 2019
The Economic Policy Institute, Hallet notes, argues that the wage increase will actually create more employment. According to the NELP, restaurant sales increased an average of 6.6 percent every year from 2014 to 2018. The next front in this conversation, Hallet notes, is the tip credit, through which restaurants can only pay their staff $10 if they make $5 or more an hour in tips. Officials are currently considering whether to abolish the credit, and there are all kinds of problems with tipping including that it allows for racism, sexism, and classism to factor into compensation of workers.
New York Magazine
October 30, 2019
Of course, we have long associated teaching with low salaries, which itself says a lot about what we think of teachers, the majority of whom are women. The average gap in compensation between public-school teachers and workers with similar levels of education and experience is at a new high—11.1 percent, according to the Economic Policy Institute. In real-dollar terms, teacher pay has eroded significantly over recent decades, but especially in Republican-led states, where years of tax cuts for high-income individuals and corporations have starved funding for public education. The red-state teacher strikes of 2018 helped draw attention to long-standing disparities and basic unfairness, but across the country the combination of persistently low pay and long hours continues to make teaching ever less appealing as a career.
Commonweal Magazine
October 30, 2019
“The ‘Fight for $15’ movement totally reset people’s expectations for what the minimum wage should be,” said David Cooper, a senior analyst for the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank that advocates for higher wages.
Ed Week
October 30, 2019