The Iowa Policy Project, Policy Matters Ohio, COWS, and the Economic Analysis and Research Network supported the project, which the Economic Policy Institute published this past week as Race in the Heartland: Equity, Opportunity, and Public Policy in the Midwest. Gordon analyzed a range of factors in twelve states (North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, Michigan, Missouri, Kansas, Ohio, and Indiana). I recommend reading and downloading his whole report.
Bleeding Heartland
October 15, 2019
He too spoke to the issue of income inequality being an unmistakable accelerant to ongoing divides in the United States which he cited as being as high since 1928, one year before the Great Depression. (A 2018 study from the Economic Policy Institute, which leans left, found that “the top 1% of Americans made 26.3 times as much income as the bottom 99 percent.”)
Globe Gazette
October 15, 2019
The projection? According to the Economic Policy Institute’s Nominal Wage Tracker, the “growth target for nominal wages” is 3.5% to 4%, but the “actual year-over-year growth for private employees” is 3.2%, so we’re lagging behind, and workers are hardly noticing the increase considering recent year-over-year inflation is 2%. As for Q4 2019, no change is expected. As for 2020, there is little to no change expected across hierarchies, from hourly employees to management.
Adecco
October 11, 2019
The projection? According to the Economic Policy Institute’s Nominal Wage Tracker, the “growth target for nominal wages” is 3.5% to 4%, but the “actual year-over-year growth for private employees” is 3.2%, so we’re lagging behind, and workers are hardly noticing the increase considering recent year-over-year inflation is 2%. As for Q4 2019, no change is expected. As for 2020, there is little to no change expected across hierarchies, from hourly employees to management.
Adecco
October 11, 2019
The medical industry makes up 20 percent of the regional economic base in terms of employment, Norr said. In addition, she cited a January 2019 Economic Policy Institute finding that showed how health care has an employment multiplier of 2.0, meaning that for every job in health care, another full-time equivalent job is created outside of health care because of business and household spending.
Business North
October 11, 2019
In Ohio, black residents, who make up 12.3 percent of the state’s population, the difference between the black and white unemployment rate is fifth largest in the nation and the gap between what Ohio employers pay white and black workers is larger than in all but 41 states, according to a new report, Race in the Heartland, jointly released by Policy Matters Ohio, the Economic Policy Institute, the Iowa Policy Project and the Wisconsin-based COWS.
Rewind Columbus
October 11, 2019
“On a national level across all races, the top 1% captured 85% of post-recession income growth from 2009 to 2013,” according to an Economic Policy Institute study on income inequality, reports Yahoo Finance, Aug. 30. The study found while some states recovered 100% of those gains, but when race was taken into account, blacks and Hispanics haven’t fared nearly as well as their counterparts.
Los Angeles Wave Newspapers
October 11, 2019
In a report released on Thursday by the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal, Washington-based think tank, University of Iowa historian Colin Gordon found that a number of factors — historical, economic, demographic and political — shaped patterns of racial disparity and race relations in the Midwest.
St. Louis Post Dispatch
October 11, 2019
As of April 2018, just over half of nonunion private-sector employers were subject to mandatory arbitration provisions, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a non-partisan think tank focused on low- and middle-income workers.
Bloomberg
October 11, 2019