Monthly housing costs for a family of four average $3,121 in San Francisco, Hayward and Oakland — the highest in the country, according to a USA Today analysis in April. The newspaper used data from the Economic Policy Institute and Bureau of Economic Analysis measuring the 25 most expensive places to live in the nation.
Fox News
June 18, 2019
The top 1% of income earners is also often used to categorize the rich. Those people made at least $719,000 in 2017, according to the most recent wage data reported by the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank.
U.S. News
June 18, 2019
High school graduates receiving their diplomas this month have better job prospects than those who graduated in 2007. But they’re still worse off than high school graduates in 2000. That’s according to a new report from the Washington D.C.-based Economic Policy Institute.
KASU
June 18, 2019
“Fifty years of social science research has confirmed, over and over again, that the best predictor of student achievement is not teacher quality or any other school influence, but the social and economic circumstances of the children,” says Richard Rothstein, a research associate with the Economic Policy Institute.
Statesman Journal
June 18, 2019
As Lawrence Mishel, an economist at the liberal-leaning Economic Policy Institute, notes, poverty creates obstacles that would trip up even the most naturally gifted student. He points to the plight of “children who frequently change schools due to poor housing; have little help with homework; have few role models of success; have more exposure to lead and asbestos; have untreated vision, ear, dental, or other health problems; … and live in a chaotic and frequently unsafe environment.”
The Atlantic
June 18, 2019
Okay, so both Warren and Rubio use the same phrase, Economic Patriotism. And for all their stated differences, they agree on a key symptom of the problem, outsourcing, which is deleterious to both employment and national security. The Economic Policy Institute, for instance, has estimated that in the dozen years after the U.S. normalized trade relations with China in 2000, some 3.2 million American jobs went to the People’s Republic.
Bloomberg Tax
June 18, 2019
“The PRO Act is an important effort to bring U.S. labor law into the 21st century — giving working people more power at a time when it is desperately needed,” said Celine McNicholas, the Economic Policy Institute’s (EPI) director of government affairs and labor counsel, in a statement. “Congress should pass the PRO Act immediately and give working people what they need most: fairness and a voice on the job.”
Truthout
June 18, 2019
It’s been 25 years since NAFTA went into force, and working people in the Buckeye State and beyond are still paying the price: 851,700 good-paying jobs were lost, including at least 106,400 here in Ohio, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Cleveland.com
June 18, 2019
Progressives seized upon the “shameful” 3,615-day milestone as all the more reason to push for a federal minimum wage of $15 an hour. According to a report published in February the Economic Policy Institute, raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour would boost the pay of nearly 40 million workers.
Common Dreams
June 18, 2019
A study by the Economic Policy Institute found that raising the federal minimum wage to $12 an hour by 2020 would reduce public assistance spending by $17 billion annually. In Pennsylvania, raising the wage to $12 this year will lead to more than $150 million saved on Medicaid spending in fiscal year 2019-2020.
The Clearfield Progress
June 18, 2019