The Economic Policy Institute has also weighed in, stating earlier this year, “The teacher shortage is real, large and growing
WBCK 95.3
October 7, 2019
“One thing is clear, we are not in a recession right now,” said Heidi Shierholz, a labor market economist with the Economic Policy Institute. Even if monthly gains slowed to 90,000, she noted that would still be enough to continue bringing down the overall unemployment rate.
“The labor market is strong,” Shierholz continued. September marked the 19th consecutive month where unemployment has been at or below 4%. “But the slowdown is disturbing. It is severe in manufacturing and we are generally seeing a slowdown in areas more broadly than manufacturing.”
WJLA
October 7, 2019
According to a recent study by the Economic Policy Institute and UC Berkeley’s Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, child care workers in California are barely making ends meet.
Asian Journal
October 7, 2019
The first will be presented to The Honorable Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Director of Retirement Security, Economic Policy Institute, Lt. Governor of Maryland (1995-2003). As Maryland’s first woman Lt Governor, along with Gov. Parris Glendening, she recruited Dr. Gallo and his colleagues to the State. The Institute has great respect for the Lt. Governor for helping people in need and advancing human health in multiple areas, where she has worked very hard and lent her time. She became one of IHV’s early board chairs, is a current IHV Board member and has been a tremendous force in paving the way for the Institute’s success here in Maryland. The Lt. Governor previously served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the United States, led the fight to make Maryland the first—and only—state to make service a high school graduation requirement, and has served in numerous other public service roles.
Business Wire
October 7, 2019
The Economic Policy Institute, a labor-funded group that is no friend of high levels of executive compensation, took a close look at the effects of the ACA limits on deductibility of insurance company executive comp and found…nothing. It concluded, “There is no evidence that limiting the deductibility of CEO pay for health insurers lowered this pay relative to other industries, after controlling for other determinants of pay.”
Forbes
October 4, 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.
Nation of Change
October 4, 2019
Today, nearly half of all unionized workers in the United States work in the public sector. Through collective bargaining, unionized workers negotiate for better pay and benefits than nonunion workers. The so-called union wage premium—or the boost in pay for unionized workers compared with similar nonunionized counterparts—in states with strong public sector bargaining laws is 10 percent, according to research conducted in 2012 by Richard B. Freeman and Eunice Han.8 And analysis from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) finds that the wage premium for unionized public sector workers is 8 percent, while the overall compensation premium—which includes the value of pay and benefits—is 9 percent.9 Moreover, research shows that while public sector workers earn lower wages than comparable private sector workers, union membership significantly narrows the pay gap.10
Center for American Progress
October 4, 2019
The striking workers, members of Teamsters Local 25 in Boston, began their strike on August 29 after Republic refused to agree to a contract with a livable wage and affordable health care. On average, the striking sanitation workers are paid 40 percent below what it takes to make a living wage in Massachusetts for a family with one adult and one child, according to the Economic Policy Institute’s Family Budget Calculator.
Teamsters
October 4, 2019
Workers in the Boston area began their strike on Aug. 29 after Republic refused to agree to a contract with a livable wage and affordable health care. On average, the striking sanitation workers are paid 40 percent below what it takes to make a living wage in Massachusetts for a family with one adult and one child, according to the Economic Policy Institute’s Family Budget Calculator as reported in the Teamsters 25 news release.
Kent Reporter
October 4, 2019