A widely distributed 2019 study by the Economic Policy Institute called the teacher shortage “large and growing,” and analysts point to two key issues: Public schools are hiring fewer teachers and fewer people are pursuing teaching careers, a perfect storm for a public-education epidemic.
Innovateli
October 29, 2019
Economic Policy Institute president Thea Lee and Heritage Foundation research fellow Joel Griffith discussed the economy and its impact on the 2020 elections.
C-SPAN
October 29, 2019
Still this figure is a drop from the proposed changes during the Barack Obama administration. Obama had introduced a threshold of around $47,000 in 2016, rising to around $51,000 in 2019. The logic from the Obama administration was that the overtime threshold had not kept up with inflation. According to the Economic Policy Institute, if the threshold had matched inflation since 1975, it would have been over $50,000 in 2014.
Holland Sentinel
October 29, 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.
MarketWatch
October 29, 2019
A $15 minimum wage by 2024 would directly lift the wages of 28.1 million workers nationally, according to a report this year by the Economic Policy Institute. Another 11.6 million workers would indirectly see a benefit, as employers raise wages of workers making more than $15 in order to attract and retain employees.
Maine Beacon
October 29, 2019
According to data from the Economic Policy Institute, every manufacturing job can spur up to seven additional jobs. It’s among the highest multipliers of any industry, including health care, retail and transportation and warehousing.
WBEZ 91.5 Chicago
October 29, 2019
APHA member Elise Gould, PhD, MPAff, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, noted that after adjusting for inflation and changes in how income is measured, U.S. median household income is still just below 2000 levels. Unemployment may be low, she said, but it is not translating into faster income growth or greater shared prosperity.
The Nation’s Health
October 29, 2019
HARTFORD, CT — It costs a pretty penny for residents to live comfortably in Connecticut , according to the Economic Policy Institute. The organization’s family budget calculator estimates how costly it is to live in each of America’s 3,142 counties and 611 metro areas.
Patch
October 29, 2019
But one of the best perks of living in a city with a relatively smaller population? Affordability. According to the Economic Policy Institute, the cost of living for a two-parent, two-child family in Hanford, California, for instance, would be $6,221 per month, compared with nearly double at $12,370 for the same family in San Francisco.
WalletHub
October 29, 2019
An Economic Policy Institute report by Emma García and Elaine Weiss found that the teacher shortage across the country quadrupled between 2012-2013 and 2017-2018. That report found a shortage of about 110,000 K-12 teachers nationwide in 2017-2018.
Oil City News
October 29, 2019