A family in the United States needs an annual income of at least $421,926 to be in the top 1% of earners, according to Economic Policy Institute data.
Business Insider
April 30, 2019
“If Democrats don’t change their narrative on this, Trump is going to cut them up,” said Jeff Faux, co-founder of the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank supported by organized labor. “They have to start dealing with this and convincing people they are for secure borders.”
LA Times
April 30, 2019
“If you compare child care expenses across the states compared to how much it costs to pay in-state tuition, those numbers are pretty comparable, and sometimes they’re even higher for infant care costs. And so you don’t have the time — you don’t have the years — to be able to make those savings,” said Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute.
Newsy
April 30, 2019
AUSTIN, Texas – Texas teachers earned more than 22 percent less in weekly wages than similar college graduates in 2018, after accounting for education, experience and other factors, according to a new Economic Policy Institute report.
Public News Service
April 30, 2019
For a single person starting out on their own in the San Francisco metro area it takes roughly $69,000 to afford basic expenses, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank. “Once you pay your mortgage and put food on the table and get to and from work you don’t have a whole lot left over to pay your debt,” said Elise Gould, a senior economist at EPI.
Market Watch
April 30, 2019
Dr. Josh Bivens, research director at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, explained in an email to INSIDER that the “short-run macro benefits are neutral to good.”
Business Insider
April 30, 2019
Teachers’ wages — when adjusted for inflation — have declined during the past two decades, while wages have increased for other similarly educated workers, according to an analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data by the Economic Policy Institute. Lawrence Mishel, co-author of the report, says the wage discrepancy may affect teacher recruitment, students and the country overall.
SmartBrief
April 30, 2019
“Folks today in basically any county in America would need at least 13 dollars an hour to achieve a truly secure standard of living,” said Dave Cooper form the liberal leaning Economic Policy Institute.
WTVY
April 30, 2019
This week on Off-Kilter… From time to time, policymakers muse about whether the federal minimum wage should be set by region rather than as a national floor. Now is one of those times, with some in Congress pointing to a regional minimum wage as an alternative to the $15 federal floor called for in the popular Raise the Wage Act. But how would a regional minimum wage play out — particularly for workers? To unpack what’s at stake, Rebecca talks with David Cooper, senior analyst at the Economic Policy Institute and deputy director of the Economic Analysis and Research Network.
Medium
April 30, 2019
We should note that the federal minimum wage is sometimes exceeded by a state or local minimum wage, as 29 states and the District of Columbia have a minimum wage higher than the federal minimum wage. The handy minimum wage tracker maintained by the Economic Policy Institute shows, for instance, that the state minimum wage in New York is $11.10 and the tipped wage is $7.50; in New York City, the minimum wage is $15 and the tipped wage is $10.
The Washington Post
April 26, 2019