According to a report from the Economic Policy Institute, the average CEO pay is 271 times the nearly $58,000 average pay of the typical American worker.
The Norman Transcript
August 6, 2019
Wage gains have been strongest in the past year for workers earning $12 to $14 an hour and those at the top end of the pay scale who make more than $60 an hour, according to a new analysis from the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
The Washington Post
August 6, 2019
“I do not think it is a legitimate argument to try to gain support from black voters based on the economic argument. There is little we can point to from the current administration as a reason for where African Americans are economically,” said Wilson, the director of the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute’s Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy.
She said the African American unemployment rate started to decrease under Obama as the economy recovered from the Great Recession.
Politico
August 6, 2019
For example, the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) recently released a budget that purports to pay for Medicare-for-all. Despite the fact that EPI’s $17 trillion estimate for the cost of Medicare-for-all comes laughably short of consensus estimates of the program’s cost, the weight placed on taxpayers would be substantial.
EPI proposes to pay for Medicare-for-all largely by eliminating every tax credit and deduction aside from the Earned-Income Tax Credit (EITC). That means that every deduction, preferential rate, refundable credit, and deferral in the income tax code would be eliminated. Democrats decrying the impact of capping the State and Local Tax (SALT) on the “middle-class” are suspiciously supportive of the kind of policy that involves $15 trillion in higher tax bills.
Daily Caller
August 6, 2019
That’s in step with a national trend. According to Kentucky Teacher, a 2019 report by the Economic Policy Institute said that a surplus of teachers in 2011-12 has been swallowed up by growing demand, and the gap is expected to continue growing.
Bowling Green Daily News
August 6, 2019
The first is the more direct one: Researchers at groups like the Urban Institute, the Century Foundation, and the Economic Policy Institute, to name just a few in the recent past, have drawn links between racially segregated neighborhood and racially segregated schools. Discrimination against black families seeking home loans, something that began nearly 100 years ago, for example, and the former practice of “redlining” districts for federal housing assistance due to their racial and ethnic characteristics have impacts that still hurt people of color and segregate neighborhoods today, according to some. Not surprisingly, they’ve been linked in the minds of powerful leaders for decades.
Education Week
August 6, 2019
And although teachers in some states have ample cause to be unhappy about their paychecks, teachers are not — by and large — underpaid. Democratic presidential candidates such as Kamala Harris have touted a report from the Economic Policy Institute claiming that teachers are “underpaid” by 21%. But Andrew Biggs and Jason Richwine (of the American Enterprise Institute and Heritage Foundation, respectively) have noted that by the same methodology, which considers educational attainment but ignores supply and demand, aerospace engineers are “overpaid” by 38% and telemarketers are “underpaid” by 25%.
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
August 6, 2019
Massachusetts is one of the highest-paying states for teachers, with an average salary of $78,708, according to 2016-2017 data from the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. But according to 2018 data from the Economic Policy Institute, teachers earned 19% less than similarly skilled and educated professionals nationally.
The Milford Daily News
August 6, 2019
Hafford is far from alone. For many families in the Upper Valley, affording child care is a burden. According to research from the Economic Policy Institute, the average child care costs for a child under 2 is more than $11,200 in Vermont and New Hampshire. A typical family in these states with an infant and a 4-year-old can expect to spend more than 26% of their annual income on child care.
Valley News
August 6, 2019
Hafford is far from alone. For many families in the Upper Valley, affording child care is a burden. According to research from the Economic Policy Institute, the average child care costs for a child under 2 is more than $11,200 in Vermont and New Hampshire. A typical family in these states with an infant and a 4-year-old can expect to spend more than 26% of their annual income on child care.
Valley News
August 6, 2019