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The Economic Policy Institute study reveals that male teachers earn nearly 25% less than comparable male workers. Female teachers do a little better — they earn about 14% less — but that’s less impressive when you take into account that all female employees earn less than male employees to begin with. The teacher pay penalty is very real. But why?
MultiBriefs: Exclusive January 10, 2020 -
According to the Economic Policy Institute, the top 20% of prime-age households by income have 70% of 401k/IRA savings while the bottom 40% of the population hold just 11% of these retirement savings. Only 54% of households aged 32 to 61 have any type of retirement savings, racial disparities are severe: only 41% of Black families and 35% of Hispanic families have any retirement savings.
Forbes January 10, 2020 -
And yet the prospects for black women’s health and prosperity remain the worst across the Midwest, the region that was also deemed the worst to live in for all African Americans in a recent report from the Economic Policy Institute. While Pittsburgh ranks among the lowest for black women’s life chances in our rankings, it is not considered a Midwest city. Yet it aligns better socioeconomically with the Midwest than it does with its neighbors to the east in Pennsylvania such as Harrisburg and Philadelphia. As the EPI report, released in October, explains:
We trace the origins of racial inequality in the Midwest to the deep imprint of racial segregation, which concentrated the regions’ African American population in relatively few urban counties—and then erected a forbidding architecture of residential segregation within those urban settings. In turn, the historical arc of economic opportunity saw African Americans flock to new opportunities in the industrializing Midwest in the middle years of the last century, and then be disproportionately hit by the de-industrialization that followed.
CityLab January 10, 2020 -
Rounding out the bottom of the pile were mostly Midwestern cities, alongside Pittsburgh, which shares many broad characteristics with the Midwest. An Economic Policy Institute report, cited by City Lab, laid out the overarching causes for the Midwest’s abysmal performance for black women:
We trace the origins of racial inequality in the Midwest to the deep imprint of racial segregation, which concentrated the regions’ African American population in relatively few urban counties—and then erected a forbidding architecture of residential segregation within those urban settings. In turn, the historical arc of economic opportunity saw African Americans flock to new opportunities in the industrializing Midwest in the middle years of the last century, and then be disproportionately hit by the de-industrialization that followed.
Cleveland Scene January 10, 2020 -
Mandatory arbitration clauses have become pervasive and though arbitration, as a process, is derided for its opaqueness and lack of transparency, the use of mandatory arbitration continues to proliferate. According to the Economic Policy Institute’s study, “The Growing Use of Mandatory Arbitration,” approximately 60 million U.S. employees are subject to mandatory arbitration provisions and more than half, 53.9%, of nonunion employers have mandatory arbitration procedures.
Law.com January 10, 2020 -
Research from both the Economic Policy Institute and the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) shows that employers pay H-2B less than Americans when performing the same jobs. This leads to depressed wages for U.S. workers competing for these same jobs in the same geographic area. Many of those shut out of jobs or experiencing wage depression are less educated, less skilled Americans who are already marginalized. The availability of H-2B workers ensures that it remains difficult for these Americans to find work at sufficient wages; rising wages are the key to returning more Americans to the labor force.
Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) January 10, 2020 -
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January 10, 2020 -
According to the Economic Policy Institute, between 2010 and 2018, low-wage workers in states with higher minimum wages saw their pay increase almost twice as fast on average as those in states that use the federal minimum. (The difference was even greater for women.)
The Washington Post January 10, 2020 -
The minimum wage has gone up in 22 states, and according to the Economic Policy Institute, 7 million low-wage employees affected by the increases will earn an extra $8.2 billion over the course of this year as a result of the changes.
The New York Times January 10, 2020