The Economic Policy Institute just released a report showing that 59% of teachers nationwide—a mostly female-dominated profession— turn to moonlighting or side jobs to supplement their income. Often, the side gigs are not just to supplement their income, but to actually allow them to pay the bills, because they are not making enough at their jobs.
Forbes
May 30, 2019
- La deuda nacional universitaria es de $1.3 billones, y la matrícula universitaria ha aumentado un 1,140 por ciento desde fines de los años setenta. [Fuente: Economic Policy Institute (EPI) Wage Stagnation in Nine Charts]
World Socialist Web Site
May 30, 2019
Recent college graduates face a changing labor market. As the power of unions has diminished and the growth of the so-called gig economy has led to more on-demand work without benefits, the share of graduates working part-time, but who want full-time jobs has increased. The share of underemployed recent graduates is about 10 percent in 2019, about a percentage point higher than the prerecession rate, according to a recent study by the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington think tank.
Houston Chronicle
May 30, 2019
Economic Policy Institute published a study called High Quality Child Care Is Out of Reach for Working Families and found childcare costs can add up to more than a fifth of the median household income. Also, even moms who have a partner at home end up dealing with the child-care duties and the household chores.
Bravo TV
May 30, 2019
And a pull toward degrowth may reflect more than just an urge for minimalism, but also fatigue in a system where growth hasn’t produced big wins for many people. Outside of access to more plentiful, cheaper goods, people intrinsically understand that the benefits of growth are not evenly distributed. In 1965 CEOs made 20 times what typical workers made, but as of 2013, they made 296 times that amount. From 1973 to 2013, hourly wages rose only 9 percent, but productivity increased 74 percent. “This means that workers have been producing far more than they receive in their paychecks and benefit packages from their employers,” wrote the Economic Policy Institute, an economics think tank.
VICE
May 30, 2019
Meanwhile the pay of average Americans workers has barely budged during that time: Middle-wage workers’ hourly wage is up by 6 percent since 1979 while low-wage workers’ wages are actually down by 5 percent, as data from the Economic Policy Institute shows.
Urban Milwaukee
May 30, 2019
“Minimum wage increases have been too infrequent to keep up with inflation,” according to the Economic Policy Institute, which calls the $7.25 minimum a “poverty wage,” increasing rather than relieving poverty.
Newsreview.com
May 30, 2019
It’s unclear whether $28 shows an increase over whatever bonuses workers might have gotten without the tax cuts. The left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, which recently analyzed federal pay data, found that the average 2018 bonus was just 1 cent higher than the average bonus in 2017. “This is not what the tax cutters promised, or bragged about soon after the tax bill passed,” EPI Senior Fellow Lawrence Mishel wrote.
CBS News
May 30, 2019
According to a 2019 report published by the Economic Policy Institute, the teacher shortage is real, large and growing. It cites critical indicators, including state-by-state vacancies, testimonials and data from state and school district officials, and declining enrollment in teacher preparation programs.
Clarksville Leaf-Chronicle
May 30, 2019
That bit of a rant leads me to the Economic Policy Institute’s new report on how teachers view their work environment.
Atlanta Journal Constitution
May 30, 2019