A Department of Education survey released last year found that teachers in the U.S. spend, on average, $479 on classroom supplies each year. A National Center for Education Statistics 2011–2012 Schools and Staffing Survey, which was analyzed by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), lists the total as $459 a year.
Either way, the numbers vary greatly by state.
California public school teachers spent the most at $664, on average, while teachers in North Dakota spent the least, with $327 on average. But as the Economic Policy Institute points out: “This variation should not be interpreted as a variation in teachers’ altruism. State-by-state spending differences are likely due to a combination of factors, including students’ needs, how schools are funded in the state, the cost of living in the state, and other factors.”
Yahoo
September 27, 2019
Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington is one of the metro areas that ranks poorly for childcare affordability. The Economic Policy Institute’s Family Budget Calculator estimates that the annual cost of childcare for a single child in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington is $12,996, the seventh-highest amount of any metro area in our study.
Smart Asset
September 27, 2019
In late 2016, a federal judge blocked a new overtime rule which would have set a new salary threshold of $47,476, boosting pay more substantially, according to a report by the Economic Policy Institute. The Obama-era rule would have directly benefited about 4.2 million workers.
Marketplace
September 27, 2019
“It’s a loss for those workers and for the economy as a whole,” added Shierholz, who worked at Labor Department from 2014 to 2017 and is currently a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute.
ABC News
September 27, 2019
AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Elissa McBride this week sat down for a conversation with the president of the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), Thea Lee, to discuss ways to make the nation’s economy work for all of us, and specifically the role unions play in unrigging an unfair economic system.
AFSCME Now
September 27, 2019
And union wages — which meet or exceed government-mandated prevailing wages — are significantly higher than pay for non-union workers. Union construction workers earned, on average, $7 an hour, or 40 percent more, than their non-union counterparts, with union wages of $23.95 an hour versus $16.84 an hour for non-union workers, according to a 2017 report from the Economic Policy Institute. (EPI was using labor data from 2015, and average wages for both union and non-union workers have risen since then.) The pay gaps were even larger for black and Latino workers on construction sites. EPI found that black union workers earned 36 percent more than their non-union colleagues, and Latino union workers received 53 percent higher hourly wages than non-union Latino workers.
Commercial Observer
September 25, 2019
Similarly a study done by the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank that conducts research and analysis on the economic status of working Americans, examined drivers true earned wages have found that the company takes a third. The EPI study also found that after deducting Uber’s fees and drivers’ expenses, a driver averages $11.77 an hour, which is lower than the minimum wage for California.
Oakland North
September 25, 2019
Unfortunately, most Americans aren’t coming close to these numbers. A 2016 report by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) found that Americans in their early to mid-30s have only $31,644 saved up on average. People nearing retirement in their late 50s and early 60s typically have only $163,577. So if you’re meeting the milestones set by Fidelity, that’s a good sign that you’re financially literate.
Money Crashers
September 25, 2019
Though household net worth increased, and the economy has continued to grow over the past decade, it’s clear that not all Americans are equally making those gains. According to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), wage growth hasn’t bounced back to pre-recession levels, and remains fairly flat. In August, wages grew by 3.2% over the year — below targets of 3.5%-4%. And most of the gains made in the last decade of economic recovery went to the wealthy.
On a national level, the top 1% captured 85% of post-recession income growth from 2009 to 2013, according to an Economic Policy Institute study on income inequality. In some states, they recovered 100% of those gains.
Yahoo Finance
September 25, 2019
Throughout the country, medium-skilled workers have been experiencing stagnation of real wages for a generation while low-skilled workers experienced actual declines. Massachusetts and its politicians pride themselves on their progressivism. Yet, data from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a left-of-center think tank, show that in the last 10 years, Massachusetts has had the largest increase in the number of illegal aliens – and not coincidentally the sharpest decline in wages for unskilled workers – in the nation.
The Somerville Times
September 25, 2019