Analysis by the Economic Policy Institute of wages for men without a bachelor’s degree shows they earned no more in 2018 than they did in 1989. Compared with 1979, they actually earn less. And low wages cannot help but undermine work incentives.
National Review
July 31, 2019
With too-little policy support, it should come as unsurprising that the number of families classified as working poor has grown dramatically, with one-third of Americans earning less than $12 an hour, according to a 2016 report by Oxfam America and the Economic Policy Institute.
The Times-News
July 31, 2019
More and more cities and states across the country have raised their minimum wage to $15. Many Democrats, however, say that is not enough and are pushing a bill in Congress that would raise the federal minimum wage. Some Republicans argue this would be bad for the economy. Heidi Shierholz, Senior Economist and Director of Policy at Economic Policy Institute, and Chris Kennedy, a small business owner and economist, weigh in on the ongoing debate.
Fox News
July 31, 2019
A 2017 report by the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute found that raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2024 would directly affect nearly 1.1 million workers in North Carolina, with an additional 605,000 being indirectly affected. That accounts for about 39 percent of the state’s workforce.
CBS-17 Durham
July 31, 2019
The Economic Policy Institute estimates that Massachusetts’ uninsured rate could jump as much as 273 percent if the ACA were repealed. The state would also lose billions of dollars of federal funding associated with the ACA, putting a strain on the state budget and its ability to fill the coverage gap.
Boston Globe
July 31, 2019
The pay ratio is calculated by dividing CEO compensation by average worker compensation. The graph below uses data from the Economic Policy Institute to track the pay ratio for the top 350 firms between 1965 and 2017. In 1965 the average CEO made about 20 times the pay of the average worker. Over the next 17 years the ratio rose gradually (surpassing 30 in 1978).
Urban Milwaukee
July 31, 2019
According to a study by the Economic Policy Institute cited in Nessel’s announcement of the pending charges, “unscrupulous businesses stole an estimated $429 million in wages and overtime pay from Michigan workers between 2013 and 2015, impacting more than 2.8 million workers.” David Cooper, a senior economic analyst with the EPI, told Daily Kos in a recent interview, “We have estimated that wage theft, in its totality, costs workers something on the order of $50 billion a year” on a nationwide scale.
Daily Kos
July 31, 2019
The CAP plan also bears a strong general resemblance to “Health Care for America,” a plan that Jacob Hacker, a Yale University political scientist, developed with the Economic Policy Institute back in 2007. That’s another way of saying that the idea has been kicking around for quite a while, although it’s now become more mainstream than it was a decade ago.
Huffington Post
July 31, 2019
(Along these lines, Jhacova Williams, an economist at the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute, earlier this year presented a paper at an American Economic Association conference that finds black people have lower voter registration rates today in places with high numbers of lynchings from 1882 to 1930.)
Journalist Resource
July 31, 2019
In 1994, public school teachers earned about 1.8% less per week than workers in other professions that required a college degree. Today, the pay gap between teachers and comparable professions has widened to 18.7%. What’s worse, teachers earn less on average in inflation-adjusted dollars than they did in 1990, according to the Department of Education.
Business Insider
July 31, 2019