At the Economic Policy Institute, Hunter Blair writes—Bipartisan Senate budget bill could damage the economy during recessions:
Last week, the Senate Budget Committee passed a bipartisan set of budget reforms out of committee. While they include some important steps forward, such as effectively eliminating the archaic debt limit, their centerpiece is a deeply damaging provision that, if passed into law, would make recessions far more damaging by forcing Congress to consider steep cuts just when the economy would be most hurt by them.
Daily Kos
November 22, 2019
On average, private child care in Louisiana costs $149 a week, according to the Economic Policy Institute. In New Orleans, prices can go to nearly $260 a week.
NOLA.com
November 22, 2019
Here’s a stark number to consider: Nearly two-thirds of America’s workforce — 65.1 percent — do not have a college degree. That’s roughly 100 million Americans, and most of them are currently working in lower-paying service industry jobs.
Morning Consult
November 22, 2019
Un reporte del Instituto de Políticas Económicas (Economic Policy Institute) revelado un día antes de la celebración del Día de Pago Equitativo para las Latinas, encontró que una latina tendrían que trabajar por 57 años para ganar lo que un hombre blanco no hispano ganaría en 30 años.
Elise Gould del Economic Policy Institute dice que desafortunadamente, las mujeres hispanas son objeto de una doble brecha salarial, una desigualdad étnica y de género en su sueldo que se ha crecido.
La Opinion
November 22, 2019
Ramirez emphasizes the event, which will host over 100 individuals this year, will address the need for greater pay transparency at companies, the need for universal paid parental leave and the positive impact unions have on closing the pay gap. According to a 2017 report from the Economic Policy Institute, unionized working women, on average, are paid 94 cents to every dollar earned by unionized working men. Additionally, according to EPI, unionized working women are more likely to have access to paid leave, paid sick days and vacation time.
CNBC
November 22, 2019
La brecha se reduce ligeramente cuando se segmentan los salarios por educación, experiencia y localización pero como señala el Economic Policy Institute, las latinas sufren una doble brecha salaria por su etnia y por ser mujeres. Las cifras que maneja la EPI apuntan a que la mayor formación de las mujeres no solo no ayuda a cerrar esta brecha sino que normalmente la amplía. Las mujeres con estudios superiores ganan menos que los hombres blancos con menos formación.
La Opinion
November 22, 2019
But the truth is, race and gender have always worked in collusion to keep women of color out of higher-earning jobs and outside of opportunities for advancement. In fact, even within the highest-paid occupations for Latinas, the wage gap persists. The median pay for Latina chief executives is $71,361 per year, compared to median pay of $108,953 for white, non-Latinx men. Latina computer scientists are typically paid $61,781 per year, compared to $86,134 for white, non-Latinx men. Even when we control for things like education, years of experience, location, and more—the gap doesn’t change that dramatically. According to the Economic Policy Institute, Latina workers are still paid only 66 cents on the dollar relative to white men when such factors are taken into account.
Well and Good
November 22, 2019
That calculation was reported on Tuesday by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). According to EPI senior economist Elise Gould, Hispanic women “are subject to a double pay gap–an ethnic pay gap and a gender pay gap.”
24/7 Wall St.
November 22, 2019
The economic observation that seems to obviously confirm this conclusion is the longtime and growing gap between worker productivity and worker pay. Perhaps the most frequently cited version of this supposed economic reality comes from the left-wing Economic Policy Institute, which calculates a 70 percent rise in worker productivity since 1979 versus a mere 12 percent rise in pay, all adjusted for inflation. As EPI explains the big disparity, “This means that although Americans are working more productively than ever, the fruits of their labors have primarily accrued to those at the top and to corporate profits, especially in recent years.”
The Week
November 20, 2019
When corporations dictate the rules, one can generally bet that executives will receive large bonuses, investors will receive dividends, and workers will receive nothing. According to the Economic Policy Institute, the payout ratio between executives and workers has skyrocketed from 20 to 1 in 1965 to 278 to 1 in 2018.
La Opinion
November 20, 2019