ACROSS ILLINOIS — Child care isn’t cheap in Illinois. According to updated research from the Economic Policy Institute, parents in Illinois shell out $13,802 for infant care on average every year — that’s $1,150 each month.
Infant care for one child eats up 18.2 percent of a median family’s income in Virginia, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Child care for an infant and a 4-year-old takes up 32.2 percent of a family’s income, costing $24,929, the institute reports.
Patch
August 5, 2019
CHARLOTTE, NC — Child care isn’t cheap in North Carolina. According to updated research from the Economic Policy Institute, parents in North Carolina shell out $9,480 for infant care on average every year or $790 each month.
Patch
August 5, 2019
CHARLOTTE, NC — Child care isn’t cheap in North Carolina. According to updated research from the Economic Policy Institute, parents in North Carolina shell out $9,480 for infant care on average every year or $790 each month.
Patch
August 5, 2019
AUSTIN – A new Economic Policy Institute report shows how hard it is for Texas families to pay for early child care and education for one child – let alone two.
Zane Mokhiber, data analyst with the Economic Policy Institute, said most people don’t think of infant care as a particular cost burden when compared with expenses including education and housing, but it’s actually one of the bigger costs facing families. A typical Texas family with two children has to spend more than 27% of its income for child care.
“So the annual cost of infant care in Texas is around $9,300 and the cost of in-state tuition at a four year public college $8,645. So it’s around $700 more than in-state tuition,” Mokhiber said.
El Paso Herald-Post
August 5, 2019
Everyone who works deserves a fair wage for all their hours on the job. But about 217,000 times each year, an employer pays an Ohio worker less than the minimum wage. These violations alone cost Ohio workers an estimated $600 million — about $2,800 for each of these Ohio workers on average, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Cleveland.com
August 2, 2019
According to the Economic Policy Institute, a non-profit think tank, the top 1 percent of wealthiest residents in New Hampshire captured 6 percent of income growth from 1945-73.
New Hampshire Union Leader
August 2, 2019
Economic factors included the median home value, the monthly cost of living for two people with no children, and the state-local tax burden as a share of state income. Tax burden data came from the Tax Foundation and are for 2012, the most recent year available. Median home value came from the 2017 ACS 5-Year estimates, and the monthly cost of living came from the Economic Policy Institute for 2017. All factors were given equal weight.
USA Today
August 2, 2019
Black Americans have particularly suffered, thanks to inequities in the criminal justice system, employment, education, and healthcare. While the baby bonds bill is race neutral, it is designed to impact children of color, who disproportionately live in poverty compared to their white counterparts. According to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), in 2016, roughly 31% of black and 27% of Hispanic children lived in poverty. That’s compared to 11% of white children.
Yahoo Finance
August 2, 2019
Critics of the UW researchers have seized on Seattle’s uniqueness to discount the UW findings. Ben Zipperer of the liberal Economic Policy Institute wrote that the UW research is based on a “flawed comparison” between Seattle and the rest of the state. He argued that the decline in low wage jobs was due to a hot economy boosting low-wage jobs into high-wage jobs, not the new minimum wage. The data did show, Zipperer argued, that all of the workers they studied were “better off after the minimum wage increase” — higher-hour workers earned more with a higher wage while the low-hour workers got the same pay for less work.
VOX
August 2, 2019
Research shows about 684,000 South Carolina workers — or a third of the state’s workforce — would see their wages increase if a $15 federal minimum wage were adopted by 2025, according to David Cooper, a senior economic analyst at the Washington-based Economic Policy Institute.
The Post and Courier
August 2, 2019