Today, the pay gap between teachers and comparable professions has widened to 18.7%. What’s worse, teachers earn less on average in inflation-adjusted dollars than they did in 1990, according to the Department of Education.
Business Insider
August 7, 2019
The disciplining of Black and Brown children by high-stakes standardized testing also manifests in very concrete and material ways. A 2013 study by the Economic Policy Institute found that in one state having a high-stakes graduation exit exam correlated with a 12.5 percent increase in the rate of incarceration. Again, given that these tests fail kids of color disproportionately, this study suggests that high-stakes standardized tests are a conduit for the school-to-prison pipeline.
Rethinking Schools
August 7, 2019
The Economic Policy Institute estimates the average cost of caring for an infant in the Cowboy State is $887 per month, $10,647 annually. That’s more than double the average in-state tuition at the University of Wyoming ($4,443 per year). Wyoming was one of the 33 states in the study where the costs of infant care exceed college tuition.
KGAB AM 650
August 7, 2019
Wage theft has serious financial consequences for workers and businesses, according to a release from Peters. The Economic Policy Institute estimates that American workers are shorted as much as $15 billion each year due to minimum wage law violations.
Michigan has the fifth highest total of unpaid earnings in the country due to minimum wage violations.
According to EPI, from 2013 to 2015, roughly $430 million in wages were improperly withheld from Michigan workers.
The Oakland Press
August 6, 2019
According to a report from the Economic Policy Institute, the average CEO pay is 271 times the nearly $58,000 average pay of the typical American worker.
The Norman Transcript
August 6, 2019
Wage gains have been strongest in the past year for workers earning $12 to $14 an hour and those at the top end of the pay scale who make more than $60 an hour, according to a new analysis from the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
The Washington Post
August 6, 2019
“I do not think it is a legitimate argument to try to gain support from black voters based on the economic argument. There is little we can point to from the current administration as a reason for where African Americans are economically,” said Wilson, the director of the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute’s Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy.
She said the African American unemployment rate started to decrease under Obama as the economy recovered from the Great Recession.
Politico
August 6, 2019
For example, the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) recently released a budget that purports to pay for Medicare-for-all. Despite the fact that EPI’s $17 trillion estimate for the cost of Medicare-for-all comes laughably short of consensus estimates of the program’s cost, the weight placed on taxpayers would be substantial.
EPI proposes to pay for Medicare-for-all largely by eliminating every tax credit and deduction aside from the Earned-Income Tax Credit (EITC). That means that every deduction, preferential rate, refundable credit, and deferral in the income tax code would be eliminated. Democrats decrying the impact of capping the State and Local Tax (SALT) on the “middle-class” are suspiciously supportive of the kind of policy that involves $15 trillion in higher tax bills.
Daily Caller
August 6, 2019
That’s in step with a national trend. According to Kentucky Teacher, a 2019 report by the Economic Policy Institute said that a surplus of teachers in 2011-12 has been swallowed up by growing demand, and the gap is expected to continue growing.
Bowling Green Daily News
August 6, 2019
The first is the more direct one: Researchers at groups like the Urban Institute, the Century Foundation, and the Economic Policy Institute, to name just a few in the recent past, have drawn links between racially segregated neighborhood and racially segregated schools. Discrimination against black families seeking home loans, something that began nearly 100 years ago, for example, and the former practice of “redlining” districts for federal housing assistance due to their racial and ethnic characteristics have impacts that still hurt people of color and segregate neighborhoods today, according to some. Not surprisingly, they’ve been linked in the minds of powerful leaders for decades.
Education Week
August 6, 2019