Rochester’s paper is largely a response to a study from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) arguing that “Minnesota’s economy has performed better for working families than Wisconsin’s” since 2010 based on eleven metrics—jobs, unemployment, labor force participation, wages, wage trends by gender, household and family income, poverty, health insurance, GDP (gross domestic product), and population.
Urban Milwaukee
September 13, 2019
Child care stipends: My wife and I are incredibly lucky. Our infant is in a Spanish-immersion day care, five minutes from my school, where he is held, talked to, and sung to by loving adults. It’s a wonderful facility, but we dig deep into our savings to pay for it. We are not alone. According to a recent report by the Economic Policy Institute, here in Minnesota, the average cost of child care exceeds $16,000 annually. For a single infant, that amounts to over one-fifth of a median family’s income. For some, this means a choice between paying for child care or quitting a job. Others do not even have a choice; simple math makes the choice for them. Those who choose to enroll their children in day care often cut back on necessities like groceries, utilities, diapers, clothing, and home repairs. Providing relief in the form of stipends or tax credits would allow parents who choose to work to continue doing so while ensuring that their children are in a learning-rich environment.
Minnesota Post
September 13, 2019
According to the nonpartisan Learning Policy Institute, for example, in the 2017-18 school year there was a shortage of 110,000 qualified teachers. The slightly left-of-center Economic Policy Institute confirms the shortage and expresses alarm that “The teacher shortage is real, large and growing, and worse than we thought,” and that it “threatens students’ ability to learn and reduce(s) teachers’ effectiveness.”
Patrick Gleeson
September 13, 2019
Bennet’s plan says his administration would work to increase teacher pay, with the goal being pay for educators “at least the equivalent amount they could earn in the private sector with a comparable level of education.” That gets at a key disparity in teacher pay: The gap between teacher pay and the pay of other college-educated professionals has grown substantially over the last 25 years, even accounting for benefits, according to a 2018 report by the Economic Policy Institute.
Chalkbeat
September 13, 2019
Para muchos maestros, y tal y como revelaban hace unos meses dos economistas de Economic Policy Institute (EPI), encontrar otra ocupación con la que compaginar la enseñanza es vital. Emma García y Elaine Weiss explicaban, el 59% de los maestros tuvieron que añadir otras actividades a su jornada laboral para tener mayores ingresos.
La Raza
September 13, 2019
In fact, it takes an average of $459 a year, according to the Economic Policy Institute, which took the National Center for Educational Statistics’ 2011-2012 Schools and Staffing Survey and adjusted for inflation to 2018 dollars.
Chicago Tribune
September 13, 2019
In 1994, public school teachers earned about 1.8% less per week than workers in other professions that required a college degree.
Source: TIME, The Economic Policy Institute
Business Insider
September 13, 2019
“We have an issue with wage inequality, income inequality and wealth inequality where most of the growth is going to the top,” Valerie Wilson, director of the Economic Policy Institute’s program on race, ethnicity and the economy, said in an interview with the Times. “Those people are less likely to be women, and much less likely to be women of color.”
Hip Latina
September 12, 2019
C-SPAN
September 12, 2019
And as profits go, so goes the payoff for the C-suite and shareholders. The CEO-to-worker pay ratio ballooned to 281 in 2017 from 195 in 2009, according to the Economic Policy Institute, and it projects a comparable ratio for 2018. Shareholders have been richly rewarded, too, as the US stock market has more than quadrupled in value since early 2009.
The National
September 11, 2019