Teachers, based on education and experience, are some of the lowest-paid professionals. In 2017, female teachers received 15.1 percent less in pay than other comparable female professionals; male teachers were paid 26.8 percent less than their male peers in the same year, according to a study by the nonprofit, nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute. When will the bleeding stop? It needs to stop now. As Dunsmore’s suggested cuts would leave positions open when people retire or resign, the number of students will not decrease. Their required education and school services will have to be met by fewer people forced to do more. Thus, students are negatively affected, along with the overworked teachers and school staffs.
News-Argus
September 6, 2019
WHAT DOES THE job market in the U.S. look like for recent college graduates with four-year degrees? A May report from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a think tank based in Washington, D.C., tracks the economic prospects of these individuals as they start their careers. It was authored by senior economist Elise Gould and research assistants Zane Mokhiber and Julia Wolfe.
BizEd
September 6, 2019
So not much has changed over the ensuing 98 years. Just four months ago, the National Education Association, citing a new paper by the Economic Policy Institute, warned us that the “Teacher Shortage is ‘Real and Growing, and Worse Than We Thought.’” (The EPI is financially supported by the NEA, and its president is AFL-CIO boss Richard Trumka. Additionally, its board includes a bevy of union heavyweights like national teacher union leaders Randi Weingarten and Lily Eskelsen García. Hence, please keep several grains of salt at the ready if you delve into this “report.”)
Heartland
September 6, 2019
It’s the beginning of the school year and teachers are once again opening up their wallets to buy school supplies is from the Economic Policy Institute. Their article is particularly interesting because they show the average amount spent in each state.
Edublogs
September 6, 2019
ILLINOIS — Teachers in Illinois are digging into their own pockets to buy school supplies, spending an average of $439 over the school year to subsidize local budgets, according to new inflation-adjusted data from the Economic Policy Institute.
Patch
September 6, 2019
The Hamilton study says employers have inherent advantages over workers in terms of information and power in the labor market, findings corroborated by a long history of research at the Economic Policy Institute, where I work.
Forbes
September 6, 2019
What is clear, though, is that whites went to the suburbs because they could. Richard Rothstein, distinguished fellow of the Economic Policy Institute and author of a book about the federal government’s role in residential segregation titled “The Color of Law,” spoke last year at a forum in Newark about the how Federal Housing Administration policy kept blacks out of the suburbs.
NJTV News
September 6, 2019
For many people, just getting back to where they started is a tough challenge. Median wage growth averaged just 0.3 percent a year between 2007 and 2018, according to the Economic Policy Institute. And yet other essential costs have skyrocketed. Average family healthcare premiums, for example, have climbed 55 percent since 2008, rising twice as fast as workers’ wages.
Consumer Reports
September 6, 2019
Meanwhile, the federal minimum wage has been stagnant at $7.25 since 2009. Additionally, minimum wage increases occurring between 1968 and 2009 have been too small to offset inflation, explains David Cooper, deputy director of EARN and senior economic analyst at the Economic Policy Institute. Today, $7.25 is worth 14.8 percent less than in 2009 after adjusting for inflation, Cooper notes.
Union Track
September 6, 2019
The Jackson Hole valley is home to the most unequal metropolitan area in the United States. As measured by the Economic Policy Institute in 2015, the top 1% of residents earned an average of $16.2 million, more than 132 times the average income of the bottom 99% of families.
Yahoo Finance
September 6, 2019