Bloomberg
November 12, 2019
The Economic Policy Institute estimates that about two-thirds of California employers require their employees to arbitrate employment-related disputes, giving up the right to submit those claims to a judge or jury.
The San Diego Union-Tribune
November 12, 2019
The Illinois State Board of Education recently reported that there were more than 1,400 unfilled teaching positions in 2018, and projected that at least 20,000 more educators will be needed by 2020. Nationally it’s no better, with the Economic Policy Institute forecasting a national teacher shortage of at least 200,000 by 2025. The crisis is real, and growing.
Forbes
November 12, 2019
Across the country, low-income schools experience pronounced salary disadvantages as they fight for teachers, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
The Southern Illinoisan
November 12, 2019
Experts from the Economic Policy Institute and Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy say that it is much too early to put cost estimates on the Green New Deal. One said the Green New Deal is a set of ambitions, not policies. How much things cost will depend on what the policies are.
Rocky Mount Telegram
November 12, 2019
The United States is still in the midst of one of its longest economic expansions in the country’s history — a decade as of June — but investors still cannot seem to shake the fear that the cycle is getting long in the tooth. Registered investment advisers reported in a recent sentiment survey that the No. 1 concern among their clients was a recession (33 percent), replacing volatility as the top spot (up 7 percent from the previous quarter), and their worries are well-founded. In August, the bond yield curve inverted, meaning the interest rates on short-term bonds were higher than interest rates paid by long-term bonds. It is a sign the market believes short-term investing is riskier than long-term, a pattern that has occurred before every U.S. recession since 1955. While no one knows for certain when the next recession will hit, it is likely we could see it within the next 18 months, according to an Economic Policy Institute report.
Real Assets Adviser
November 12, 2019
Using data from the Economic Policy Institute we mapped out how much an average family in each county in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia spends annually on childcare for one child.
WUSA 9
November 12, 2019
That’s debatable. A 2019 review of studies on the impact of Airbnb by the liberal Economic Policy Institute concluded that those rentals in New York City “may have raised average rents by nearly $400 annually.”
Ann Arbor Observer
November 12, 2019
Yellen, a President Barack Obama appointee in 2014 to the Fed, appeared on a panel titled “Women in Economics: The Washington Edition.” The discussion, held at the Economic Policy Institute think tank, focused on female economists and the challenges they face in the real world of a white-male dominated profession.
Inside Sources
November 12, 2019