According to the Economic Policy Institute from Bureau of Labor Statistics and Bureau of Economic Analysis, each $1 million spent on construction creates 5 ½ direct jobs and 10.9 indirect jobs. The $26.3 million in Wilson historic rehabilitation projects supports 431 jobs, which is roughly equivalent to a local manufacturing plant’s workforce. Albanese said the hotel is expected to employ 33 people once open, but the construction will support hundreds more jobs.
Johnstonian News
October 3, 2019
Spend any time among the strikers right now and a picture emerges that should challenge one of the most broken assumptions about working-class life. Its icon is a middle-aged white man with rough hands and a long list of “what might have been”s. This image holds to this day despite being nonsense. By 2032, the Economic Policy Institute projects, a majority of the working class will be people of color. And nearly half of working-class adults are women. Right now the country’s most high-profile contract negotiations are underway in an iconically working-class profession. Those negotiations are being jammed up over the status of the most vulnerable, disposable class of workers—workers who tend to be Black and Brown. The GM picket line offers a glimpse of the new working-class arrangement, and it calls to mind a different sort of struggle, against a different set of “tiers.” Today’s fight for workplace equality doesn’t look all that different from yesterday’s fight for social equality.
Mother Jones
October 3, 2019
The bitter irony is that this bill will likely not help Indian or Chinese applicants all that much. The backlog is so great that all this will do is lower their wait-times by a few years — while dramatically increasing everyone else’s. According to Daniel Costa, director of Immigration Law and Policy Research at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., the wait times for everyone will even out to be seven or eight years.
San Francisco Chronicle
October 3, 2019
Regarding the teacher “pay gap,” Biggs and Richwine take issue with The Economic Policy Institute, an NEA supported group, which claims that teachers’ salaries are 21 percent lower than similar college educated private-sector workers in the U.S. But as Biggs and Richwine explain, the report assumes that “in comparing teachers’ salaries and private-sector pay, educational attainment is a skewed variable because it assumes that quantity of education equals quality of education.”
California Policy Center
October 3, 2019
Marketplace
October 3, 2019
The Economic Policy Institute has found that universities increasingly depend on graduate assistants and non-tenure track faculty, as the growth of those positions outpaces the growth of tenured and tenure-track positions, which have significantly higher pay and offer much more stability. Not only does that leave graduate students with more work while they’re in schools, but it also means their future job prospects are diminished after graduation as well.
Inequality.org
October 2, 2019
According to the Economic Policy Institute, workers age 35 and under are the main reason for the surge in union membership over the past two years. Nationwide in 2017, nearly 860,000 workers under age 35 got hired and nearly a quarter of those were union jobs. Let’s not forget young workers were instrumental in the Fight for $15, #MeToo and living wage to just name a few.
QNS
October 2, 2019
Though he called Tuesday’s ISM report “bad news for the economy,” Robert Scott, director of trade and manufacturing policy research at the Economic Policy Institute, also said it has little to do specifically with trade tensions between the U.S. and China that have dragged on for over a year.
“It has everything to do with the slowdown in the domestic and global economies,” Scott said in an email Tuesday. “Trade wars restrict imports and exports, so both can slow. But it’s the trade balance that matters for GDP, so those factors have little impact on the rate of growth of domestic GDP.”
Courthouse News Service
October 2, 2019
In July, more than 30 groups, including the Economic Policy Institute and US PIRG, also asked Congress and regulators to impose a moratorium on Libra until “profound questions” are answered.
CNET
October 2, 2019
However, civilian jobs for veterans aren’t always paired with generous wages. According to a study by the Economic Policy Institute, one in five veterans gets paid less than $15 an hour. So, although veterans are obtaining jobs, they aren’t necessarily high-wage jobs that can comfortably sustain a citizen throughout his or her life.
Chamber Business News
October 2, 2019