Alexander’s situation is the norm, according to a new report released Tuesday from the Economic Policy Institute and UC Berkeley’s Center for the Study of Child Care Employment. Overall, the report finds California’s early educators are six times as likely as K–12 teachers to live in poverty.
“Parents want to have high quality for their kids but they often can’t afford it,” said Elise Gould, who co-authored the report. “And the other side of that is early educators are expected to underwrite the costs of the broken child care system with their low wages.”
KQED
July 30, 2019
Originally starting at 25 cents, the minimum wage has been raised nine times over the last 81 years, according to the national nonprofit Economic Policy Institute. While inflation, cost of living and other financial burdens have increased since the last increase in 2007, the existing minimum wage has created problems for many low-income Americans, the institute said.
The Journal Record
July 30, 2019
- Increase wages for up to 33 million Americans, according to independent economic analysis from the Economic Policy Institute
Daily Times Chronicle
July 30, 2019
- Increase wages for up to 33 million American workers, according to independent economic analysis from the Economic Policy Institute. Even the CBO’s more cautious estimate of a similar proposal indicated as many as 27 million workers would see a wage increase;
Harlem World Magazine
July 30, 2019
This act, depending on which study (either the Economic Policy Institute or Congressional Budget Office) one wants to subscribe to, would give a pay raise to between 27 and 33million Americans and “lift 1.3 million people out of poverty.”
Blog for Arizona
July 30, 2019
The concept of a $15 minimum wage emerged around 2014 when groups of fast-food workers across the country went on strike to demand better pay, mainly from large, profitable corporations, said David Cooper, a senior economic analyst with the Economic Policy Institute who studies and researches the impact of minimum wage laws.
Chicago Tribune
July 30, 2019
The Economic Policy Institute puts the number of workers who would benefit even higher, at about 33.5 million. The impact would be particularly massive for women and people of color: For example, it would benefit 43 percent of working single mothers. So, in addition to being an economic imperative, this is a civil rights issue and a women’s issue, too.
The Washington Post
July 30, 2019
The pay gap persists regardless of occupation. According to the Economic Policy Institute, women on average earn less in every occupation for which there is sufficient data. In fact, when women take over a field previously dominated by men, the pay drops. Park rangers and camp counselors were once primarily men. But between 1950 and 2000, women came to fill those jobs. Subsequently, median hourly wages fell 57%, according to research by academics with the University of Pennsylvania and New York University.
Courier Journal
July 30, 2019
“If the Vikings had had public relations teams, they would have claimed to be making better use of the resources of the fishing villages they pillaged. Private equity often leaves a similar trail of destruction-looting productive resources rather than salvaging unproductive ones. This bill addresses serious problems with the private equity business model, without getting in the way of firms that actually do produce allocative or operational efficiencies that strengthen the U.S. economy,” said Thea Lee, president of the Economic Policy Institute, in a statement.
Compliance Week
July 30, 2019
The ramifications of the China trade policy Biden backed have been profound and as the Economic Policy Institute has found, not in a good way. Our trade deficit skyrocketed and the U.S. lost 3.2 million jobs between 2001-2013. In fact, according to EPI’s data, some of the congressional districts hit hardest by job losses are heavily rural, such as Minnesota-1 (68% rural), New Hampshire-2 (57% rural), and South Carolina-3 (40% rural). So far, the loss of Chinese export markets for American farm products does not seem to be costing President Trump political support with his base, and if Biden is the Democratic nominee you can imagine the attack ads that Trump will unleash on him over this issue alone.
Daily Yonder
July 30, 2019