And Hunter Blair, a budget analyst at the Economic Policy Institute, noted that “households also face state income taxes, sales taxes, excise taxes, and property taxes. And ITEP has shown that state and local tax systems are regressive.”
Newsweek
October 15, 2019
“For the first time we see really robust agendas in labor and employment policy that are about unions and also about really high labor standards,” said Lawrence Mishel, the former president of the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal think tank. “Politicians have been willing to say some of this stuff, but they haven’t been public about it.”
The New York Times
October 15, 2019
It costs a pretty penny for residents to live comfortably in Morris County, 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 15, 2019
Thirty years ago, requiring an employee to settle disputes in arbitration was incredibly rare, with less than 2% of the private-sector workforce under the agreements in 1992. But more than half of nonunion, private-sector workers have to sign the agreements now in order to get or keep a job, according to Heidi Shierholz, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute.
“It is very common in low-wage workplaces, and it is also more common in industries that are disproportionately composed of women and African American workers,” Shierholz said.
Marketplace
October 15, 2019
The study uses data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics analyzed by the liberal think-tank Economic Policy Institute. Educator jobs include mostly K-12 public school teachers, but also administrators, guidance counselors, and paraeducator.
Business Insider
October 15, 2019
State and local government austerity since the recession has contributed to a significant shortfall in education employment. There are still 60,000 fewer public education jobs than there were before the recession began in 2007. If we include the number of jobs that should have been created just to keep up with growing student enrollment, we are currently experiencing a 307,000 job shortfall in public education. […]
Daily Kos
October 15, 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.
KPVI
October 15, 2019
The Economic Policy Institute argues that a more stable and financially sustainable childcare workforce would pave the way for an expansion of subsidized care for hundreds of thousands of children statewide. The work of teaching young children, performed primarily by African American and Hispanic women, needs to be recognized as an invaluable occupation, and early care and education should no longer be financed through low teacher pay.
The Progressive
October 15, 2019
Wisconsin ranks among the worst states in the nation for racial inequality in a new report by EPI’s Economic Analysis and Research Network (EARN) state partners that highlights the racial disparities within a dozen Midwestern states.
Madison 365
October 15, 2019