“The policies of segregation that were followed by the federal government were so powerful that they determine the racial landscape of today,” says Richard Rothstein, a distinguished fellow at the Economic Policy Institute and the author of The Color Of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America. “African Americans are restricted to neighborhoods because the other neighborhoods are now unaffordable to them, restricted to neighborhoods where there are fewer trees, where there is more heat.”
NPR
January 15, 2020
As recently as seven years ago, schools and colleges of education were graduating too many for too few jobs. Now, jobs are available, with outcries about existing or impending teacher shortages at the local and national levels. A report this year by the Economic Policy Institute finds that the teacher shortage is large and growing, and worse than anticipated. This report explains that when teacher certification and training are considered, the shortage is much worse than estimated, with low-income schools experiencing an acute shortage of credentialed teachers.
Lohud
January 15, 2020
In the ’70s or ’80s, your labor and overall productivity were more or less in lock step. And we still pretend that if someone wakes up in the morning and says, “Hey, I need to put food on the table,” he can go out to his main street, he can sell his time for money at some hourly rate, and then he’ll be able to make a good enough living so he can feed his family, raise kids and the rest of it. That has become progressively less true over the last 40 years, unfortunately, where wages have stagnated while productivity has gone up and up,
Starting in 1979, productivity and pay sharply diverged — productivity rose nearly 70 percent, while typical hourly pay essentially stagnated, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
and that’s going to accelerate because of the convergence of capital and technology now, in unprecedented ways.
The New York Times
January 15, 2020
According to the Economic Policy Institute, men make up 77% of employment in construction and manufacturing sectors, while women make up 77% of employment in education and healthcare sectors. When looking at the growth rate of these industries, construction and manufacturing added 356,000 jobs to the economy between 2018 and 2019. Meanwhile, education and healthcare added 603,000 jobs to the economy during the same time period.
CNBC
January 15, 2020
Adjusted for inflation, Biden’s $42,500 salary as a senator in 1972 would be almost $260,000 in today’s dollars. Meanwhile, the average cost of child care in Delaware currently ranges from nearly $9,000 to $11,000 per year, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
The Washington Post
January 15, 2020
La nueva regulación, que entra en vigor el 16 de marzo es vista con muchas reticencias por expertos progresistas. Desde la EPI, Economic Policy Institute, se ve como un incentivo para que las corporaciones subcontraten tareas y empleo de tal manera que escapen las regulaciones de la Ley de Estándares Justos de Trabajo. Esta organización calcula que este cambio pueda costar a los trabajadores más de $1,000 millones anuales no solo por los efectos de la subcontratación sino también por los robos de salarios.
El Diaro
January 15, 2020
However, groups like the Economic Policy Institute, a pro-labor think tank, have argued since the potential rule change was announced last April that it will make it “nearly impossible” for workers to ensure their employers uphold the Fair Labor Standards Act and “will completely take away the ability of workers to recover unpaid wages from firms who use undercapitalized contractors in their work,” the group said in an open letter sent to the DOL in June.
Entrepreneur
January 15, 2020
In Illinois, the average teacher spends $439, according to an Economic Policy Institute study.
Jacksonville Journal-Courier
January 14, 2020
Esta situación coincide con las graduales subidas de salarios mínimos en estados y ciudades. De acuerdo con el Economic Policy Institute (EPI), un centro de estudios de posición progresista que tiene una base de datos sobre ello, el salario mínimo se ha aumentado por encima del federal (que es de $7.25 la hora) en 29 estados y 44 localidades desde 2014.
La Opinion
January 14, 2020
On top of gyms turning into zoos, New Year’s Day marked higher minimum wages in 22 states.
- That means a raise for 6.8 million people across the U.S, according to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI).
Morning Brew
January 14, 2020