Nationally, some researchers have argued the teaching shortage is worse than previously understood and disproportionately affects high poverty schools, according to a paper by the Economic Policy Institute from earlier this year.
“Lack of sufficient, qualified teachers and staff instability threaten students’ ability to learn and reduce teachers’ effectiveness, and high teacher turnover consumes economic resources that could be better deployed elsewhere,” wrote Emma Garcia and Elaine Weiss, the paper’s authors. “The teacher shortage makes it more difficult to build a solid reputation for teaching and to professionalize it, which further contributes to perpetuating the shortage.”
The Cap Times
September 6, 2019
According to the Economic Policy Institute, Ohio teachers spend $444 a year from personal funds for school supplies.
Cleveland.com
September 6, 2019
On a national level, Florida sits at the lower end of the child care cost spectrum with infant care costing an average $9,238 a year, or $770 a month, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Meanwhile, parents in Washington DC pay the most, shelling out an average of $24,243 a year, or $2,020 a month.
CNN
September 6, 2019
The report is released annually ahead of Labor Day to highlight the economic realities of working families throughout the state. Data is collected with assistance from the Economic Policy Institute.
Ellwood City Ledger
September 6, 2019
An Economic Policy Institute study shows that the dramatic increase in CEO compensation has a large impact on increasing inequality–worker pay could have doubled without the rise in CEO income
Julia Wolfe joined EPI as a research assistant in 2017. She works with EPI’s economists and researchers to analyze current labor market trends, particularly as they relate to education, inequality, and wage growth.
The Real News Network
September 6, 2019
Economic Policy Institute—Black workers endure persistent racial disparities in employment outcomes:
Black workers are twice as likely to be unemployed as white workers overall (6.4% vs. 3.1%). Even black workers with a college degree are more likely to be unemployed than similarly educated white workers (3.5% vs. 2.2%). When they are employed, black workers with a college or advanced degree are more likely than their white counterparts to be underemployed when it comes to their skill level—almost 40% are in a job that typically does not require a college degree, compared with 31% of white college grads. This relatively high black unemployment and skills-based underemployment suggests that racial discrimination remains a failure of an otherwise tight labor market.racial
Daily Kos
September 6, 2019
Recent analysis by the Economic Policy Institute found that the largest 350 corporations paid their CEOs an average of $14 million a year (before stock options), and such generous pay at the top is also reflected in the next levels. Millions upon millions in executive pay means less profit for shareholders (and influences the salaries demanded by other management talent, like university administrators and nonprofit executives.)
Arkansas Business
September 5, 2019
The standoff is among the latest instances highlighting a system that funnels the wealth created by workers upwards to the elite. The statistics are startling. Incomes of the top 1 percent of U.S. households have grown more than seven times more quickly than those of the bottom 20 percent of households over the past four decades. CEO compensation rose by 940 percent since 1978, the Economic Policy Institute reports. Meanwhile, the typical worker’s wages grew by only 12 percent.
Truthout
September 5, 2019
On Tuesday, the D.C.-based liberal think tanks Economic Policy Institute (EPI) and Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) co-sponsored a daylong “Taxing the (Very) Rich” conference featuring a roster of notable speakers and discussion panelists. Economist, New York Times columnist, and progressive hero Paul Krugman delivered the morning keynote address. “We turned ourselves away from a plutocratic society once (after World War II) and we can do it again,” he assured an early-arriving audience. In the afternoon, Nickel and Dimed author and activist Barbara Ehrenreich opened her talk with the greeting, “Thank you for being class traitors!”
Medium
September 5, 2019