Nationally, teachers earned about 11 percent less in salaries and benefits than other college graduates nationwide in 2017, according to researchers at the nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute.
Houston Chronicle
September 17, 2019
Castro pointed out the prominence of wage theft in the United States, citing an Economic Policy Institute study that shows wage theft accounts for the vast majority of property-related crimes.
The Hoya
September 16, 2019
If only the picture were as rosy as painted by the Sept. 2 editorial (“Good times for U.S. workers”). Although wages have indeed gone up, they have not come close to matching wage growth during the last recovery, from 1996-2000, which saw more than 9% growth for white men and women and for black men and women alike, as documented in a recent report from the national Economic Policy Institute. This time around, despite similarly low unemployment rates, wage growth has been 6.6% for white men and lower for the other groups. Significantly, the recent wage growth has shown greater racial disparities; indeed, black men and women with college degrees have, on average, received lower wages.
Providence Journal
September 16, 2019
Per a recent publication by the Economic Policy Institute, “the passage of the National Labor Relations Act in 1935 led to both a massive increase in unionization and a massive decrease in inequality.” That’s income inequality, which has grown since then as union membership has declined.
Telegram
September 16, 2019
But why were free traders not concerned about the 3.4 million U.S. jobs lost between 2001 and 2017, which affected every congressional district in the country, as our trade deficit with China grew, as reported by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) in October 2018? According to the U.S. Trade Representative website USTR.gov, Approximately 96 percent of U.S. merchandise imports are industrial (non-agricultural) goods. The United States currently has a trade-weighted average import tariff rate of 2.0 percent on industrial goods. One-half of all industrial goods entering the United States enter can.
WND
September 16, 2019
The author’s figures for relative wages across states that have “right-to-work” laws and those that don’t are not supported by the Economic Policy Institute, which states that wages, unionized and nonunionized, are 3.1% higher in states that don’t have “right-to-work” legislation.
Burlington County Times
September 16, 2019
The record low unemployment rate for African-Americans is undeniably good news, said Valerie Wilson, director of the program on race, ethnicity and the economy for the Economic Policy Institute. She cautioned that the monthly figures for different racial groups’ unemployment rates could be volatile, although she said the less volatile annual rates have also improved. She attributed the improvement to the prolonged strength of the US labor market. Employers have been adding jobs for 107 straight months and unemployment nationwide is near a 50-year low.
The Philadelphia Tribune
September 16, 2019
“I see this as the general counsel doing real damage to the NLRA’s power and workers’ ability to get relief under the act,” said Celine McNicholas, director of government affairs and labor counsel at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council
September 16, 2019
A July 2018 ruling in New Mexico found that inadequate school funding violates the state’s constitution, including the equal protection and due process rights of disadvantaged students. Policymakers subsequently boosted the state’s public school budget by nearly half a billion dollars, which included increasing pay for school employees by 6%. (This would be a welcome investment in Virginia, where teachers are paid 14% below the national average and suffer a 31% weekly wage penalty compared to other college-educated workers, based on an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute.) New Mexico also dedicated $113 million to school districts and charter schools that serve high shares of students from low-income families and students of color. Like Oregon, the state also made key investments for struggling families, including boosting their EITC by an additional seven percentage points, raising the minimum wage, and fully funding health coverage through Medicaid.
Blue Virginia
September 16, 2019
Similarly, across the country, shortages of credentialed teachers are more acute in high-poverty schools, according to a recent report from the Economic Policy Institute. “The fact that the shortage is distributed so unevenly among students of different socioeconomic backgrounds challenges the U.S. education system’s goal of providing a sound education equitably to all children,” the report concludes.
The Hechinger Report
September 16, 2019