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
CCPS is not alone in undervaluing its workforce. According to the Economic Policy Institute, in 1965, CEOs made about 16 times the average worker’s pay. In 2019, they made more than 200 times what the average worker makes. The fact that the very idea of paying workers more to attract enough to fill open positions seemingly never occurred to CCPS management helps explain how this happened.
Chesterfield Observer
October 10, 2019
Wages for college graduates are above 2000 levels, but that wage growth does not make up for years of wage stagnation or the rising cost of college and resulting debt, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
The Durango Herald
October 10, 2019
According to this Economic Policy Institute analysis, the federal minimum wage would be over $20 as of 2019 if it had kept up with inflation and how much workers produce per hour.
Credit Union Times
October 10, 2019
According to this Economic Policy Institute analysis, the federal minimum wage would be over $20 as of 2019 if it had kept up with inflation and how much workers produce per hour.
KGAB
October 10, 2019