Spending their own money on school supplies is for teachers as integral a back-to-school ritual as classroom seating arrangements, new lesson plans, meeting parents, etc. At a time when they are standing up for more education funding and a fair salary, public school educators continue to dip into their own pockets – to the tune of at least $459 every year, according to a new analysis by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI).
NEA Today
August 27, 2019
“Executive pay in the nonprofit world has escalated quite a bit, and is happening at the same time, or kind of following, what’s happened with CEOs and top private-sector executives,” said Larry Mishel, a fellow and former president of the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank.
Detroit Free Press
August 26, 2019
A minimum wage hike could raise pay for some 116,000 workers in New Hampshire, according to the Economic Policy Institute. New Hampshire has the lowest minimum wage in New England, and is the only state in the region that has not raised the minimum wage above the federal rate of $7.25 per hour. Gov. Chris Sununu vetoed a bill that would have raised the minimum wage, saying he thought the higher wages would prompt employers to cut jobs.
New Hampshire Union Leader
August 26, 2019
Heidi Shierholz of the Economic Policy Institute served as chief economist at the Labor Department from 2014 to 2017. She said one source of error in BLS’s job-number estimates comes from the way BLS statisticians estimate the number of businesses that are created and how many close.
Marketplace
August 26, 2019
Washington Republicans didn’t just block Obama initiatives like the American Jobs Act and infrastructure investment that could have boosted employment when the unemployment rate was mired at 9%. They didn’t just strangle job creation and consumer confidence with their debt-ceiling hostage-taking. The destructive austerity policies of state and local governments created an “anti-stimulus,” with layoffs of public sector workers and cuts to spending that only served to undermine the gains from ARRA (see the second chart above). By May 2013, the Hamilton Project estimated those austerity policies cost 2.2 American million jobs and resulted in the slowest recovery since World War II. In April 2012, the Economic Policy Institute explained:
The current recovery is the only one that has seen public-sector losses over its first 31 months…If public-sector employment had grown since June 2009 by the average amount it grew in the three previous recoveries (2.8 percent) instead of shrinking by 2.5 percent, there would be 1.2 million more public-sector jobs in the U.S. economy today. In addition, these extra public-sector jobs would have helped preserve about 500,000 private-sector jobs.
Daily Kos
August 26, 2019
According to a recent study published by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, it costs more for Virginia families to take care of an infant than to pay for one year of in-state tuition to an in-state four-year college.
The Hayride
August 26, 2019
Teachers in Rhode Island are digging into their own pockets to buy school supplies, spending an average of $538 over the school year to subsidize local budgets, according to new inflation-adjusted data from the Economic Policy Institute.
Patch
August 26, 2019
Teachers in Massachusetts are digging into their own pockets to buy school supplies, spending an average of $451 over the school year to subsidize local budgets, according to new inflation-adjusted data from the Economic Policy Institute.
Patch
August 26, 2019
Teachers in New Hampshire are digging into their own pockets to buy school supplies, spending an average of $423 over the school year to subsidize local budgets, according to new inflation-adjusted data from the Economic Policy Institute.
Patch
August 26, 2019