In other words, inequality has local officials coming and going. The ranks of the homeless are growing because almost all the gains from America’s growing economy, as the Economic Policy Institute’s Elise Gould testified to Congress this past March, are “going to households at the top.”
Counter Punch
June 17, 2019
According to the Economic Policy Institute, a family in the United States with an annual income of more than $420,000 qualifies as being in the top one percent. Over a working lifetime, assuming 40 working years, this would equate to $16,800,000.
FanSided
June 17, 2019
That’s $4,277 a month, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Costs in this calculation include housing, food, transportation, healthcare, other necessities, and taxes, not including savings or discretionary spending.
Business Insider
June 17, 2019
While that number isn’t far off from what the average American earns, a study conducted by the Economic Policy Institute showed that teachers earn 17 percent less than college-educated professionals with similar degrees.
NTD
June 17, 2019
According to an Economic Policy Institute report last year, Vermont ranks 16 in most expensive child care, with an average annual cost of just more than $11,000. New Hampshire comes in at 12, with just under $12,000. For most families, like the Nolan’s, that’s a significant expense.
WCAX 3
June 17, 2019
President Trump is threatening new tariffs on Chinese goods if Chinese President Xi Jinping does not meet with him at the upcoming G20 Summit. Robert Scott, senior economist and director of trade and manufacturing policy research at The Economic Policy Institute, discusses the state of U.S. trade tensions.
Cheddar
June 12, 2019
On the same panel, Thea Lee, president of the Economic Policy Institute, strongly condemned Trump’s use of tariffs in negotiating a trade deal.
CNBC
June 12, 2019
“China appears to believe that it has an inalienable right to control its own domestic economy, and its international economic environment… irrespective of any commitments it has made under the WTO or other international agreements,” said Robert E. Scott, senior economist and director of trade and manufacturing policy research at the Economic Policy Institute.
ThinkProgress
June 12, 2019
The Economic Policy Institute reports that 41% of baby boomers aged 55 to 64 have no retirement savings at all. If you’re part of that statistic, then you need to step up your retirement contributions now.
HoweStreet.com
June 12, 2019
According to the Economic Policy Institute, a preliminary calculation suggests that well over half of the workers who would have gotten new or strengthened overtime protections under the 2016 rule would be left behind by this proposed Trump administration rule. This means the administration’s rule would leave out millions of workers.
Education
June 12, 2019