A second letter to the Department of Justice opposing the merger on a legal and economic basis was made public on Monday. It was drafted by the Open Markets Institute and signed by U.S. PIRG, the Economic Policy Institute and several other consumer advocacy groups, as well as a handful of professors.
Lindsay McKenzie
August 5, 2019
“We’re just kind of taking away the pain of some people, spreading it around to more,” said Daniel Costa, director of immigration law and policy research at Economic Policy Institute, a think tank that focuses on improving incomes for low-wage workers. According to him, a seven-year to eight-year wait for all nationals after the current backlog being cleared is likely under the Lee and Lofgren bills.
The Motley Fool
August 5, 2019
“We’re just kind of taking away the pain of some people, spreading it around to more,” said Daniel Costa, director of immigration law and policy research at Economic Policy Institute, a think tank that focuses on improving incomes for low-wage workers. According to him, a seven-year to eight-year wait for all nationals after the current backlog being cleared is likely under the Lee and Lofgren bills.
Sojourners
August 5, 2019
“The way the system is set up is pretty crazy,” said Daniel Costa, director of immigration law and policy research at the Economic Policy Institute. “There’s a huge conflict of interest” because the State Department essentially leaves program oversight and worker protections to the private sponsors who bring the workers to the U.S., he said.
The agency “told us for years that they were really looking into the program” and making improvements, “but we never saw anything concrete come out,” Costa said.
Bloomberg Law
August 5, 2019
The public relations machine supporting the poorly named FAIR Act is now in full gear. Terri Gerstein of Harvard University and Heidi Shierholz of the Economic Policy Institute attacked NDP’s study, but missed their target. Their main beef was that the study looked at arbitrations regardless of whether the agreement to arbitrate came before or after the issue arose and did not look at class actions. When the arbitration agreement occurred has nothing to do with the whether the result was fair. Their other concerns are similarly off-point.
Washington Examiner
August 5, 2019
And although teachers in some states have ample cause to be unhappy about their paychecks, teachers are not – by and large – underpaid. Democratic presidential candidates such as Kamala Harris have touted a report from the Economic Policy Institute claiming that teachers are “underpaid” by 21 percent. But Andrew Biggs and Jason Richwine have noted that by the same methodology, which considers educational attainment but ignores supply and demand, aerospace engineers are “overpaid” by 38 percent and telemarketers are “underpaid” by 25 percent.
National Review Institute
August 5, 2019
“I don’t see a huge bubble on the other side of household debt that is going to savage people’s assets,” said Josh Bivens, director of research at the liberal Economic Policy Institute.
Money and Markets
August 5, 2019
WASHINGTON, DC — D.C. is the most expensive place in the country for those seeking child care, according to new research from the Economic Policy Institute. Those who have two kids requiring child care will spend more than half their household income on it in the District.
Infant care is 321 percent more expensive than in-state tuition at a four-year public college in D.C., which is $5,756, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank that analyzes workers and economic policies.
Patch
August 5, 2019
VIRGINIA — Child care isn’t cheap in Virginia, which is one of the most expensive states in the country for those seeking out this service. Virginia ranked 10th out of 50 states for the cost of infant care, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Patch
August 5, 2019
ACROSS ILLINOIS — Child care isn’t cheap in Illinois. According to updated research from the Economic Policy Institute, parents in Illinois shell out $13,802 for infant care on average every year — that’s $1,150 each month.
Infant care for one child eats up 18.2 percent of a median family’s income in Virginia, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Child care for an infant and a 4-year-old takes up 32.2 percent of a family’s income, costing $24,929, the institute reports.
Patch
August 5, 2019