What the Economic Policy Institute Says About Teacher Pay
The EPI also notes that teachers rank lower on the salary scale than comparable professionals with similar educational backgrounds, earning 21.4% less nationally. Termed the “wage penalty,” this erosion in teacher pay has grown approximately 17 points since 1994 — from 1.8 percent to 21.4%.
GoBanking Rates
September 10, 2019
In Washington, for instance, infant care averages out to about $24,000 per year, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank. The average cost for a year of day care for a 4-year-old is about $19,122. Multiply those figures by the number of kids in the home and you get a pretty good sense of the economic value of stay-at-home parenting.
The Washington Post
September 10, 2019
‘See Jane Win” is a bracing antidote to that dreadful November election night in 2016 when liberal women of the world watched as their champion, so close to shattering the highest glass ceiling, lost to a self-avowed assaulter. As the returns confirmed Hillary Clinton’s loss, I steeled myself with the hope that Arthur Schlesinger’s words would prove prescient: The pendulum swings. And, as author Caitlin Moscatello reveals, it has so proved.
The Washington Post
September 10, 2019
Since so few people are referring to themselves as socialists, it might be instructive to focus on the people who refer to others as socialists. Sometimes people get referred to as “socialist” because they talk about a redistribution of wealth. According to the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute in an article from July 2019 titled “The Income-Productivity Gap,” since 1979 American productivity has increased by almost 70%.
Hometown News
September 6, 2019
The left-leaning Economic Policy Institute reports the wage gap between black and white workers has widened since the year 2000. About half of the weekend campers received funds (largely out of Patricia Cameron’s own pocket) for gear, food and transportation to the state park 50 miles west of Colorado Springs.
CPR News
September 6, 2019
“Corporate boards running America’s largest public firms are giving top executives outsize compensation packages,” said the Economic Policy Institute in an Aug. 14 report. “Average pay of CEOs at the top 350 firms in 2018 was $17.2 million – or $14.0 million using a more conservative measure.” (Stock options make up a big part of CEO pay packages, and the conservative measure values the options when “granted,” versus when cashed in, or “realized.”)
Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council
September 6, 2019
That’s significantly above what the government deems “affordable” childcare. In order to be affordable, it should not exceed 7% of family income, says Zane Makhiber, a data analyst at the Economic Policy Institute. “There is definitely a need for action, and 7% is a good target for policymakers to shoot for.”
CBS Baltimore
September 6, 2019
Guests: Sarah McGregor, Bloomberg News Senior Trade Editor, Joel Payne, Democratic Strategist, and former Director of African-American media outreach for the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, and Pedro Da Costa, director of communications at the Economic Policy Institute.
Bloomberg
September 6, 2019
Economist Robert Scott weighs in on the possibility of a recession. (Also on YouTube)
The Hill
September 6, 2019
The Economic Policy Institute described Scalia as a “deregulatory wrecking ball,” citing reports that the Trump administration was irked at ousted Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta for not reversing Obama-era regulations aggressively enough. The department is now developing rules to lower how much money salaried employees can make before they can be denied overtime pay, and to limit when a business that hires temporary workers or has franchises can be considered a “joint employer” responsible for working conditions.
LaborPress.org
September 6, 2019