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 26, 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 26, 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.
April 26, 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 26, 2019
According to the Economic Policy Institute, from 1978 to 2013, CEO compensation, inflation adjusted, increased 937%. That’s more than double stock market growth and much more than the 10% growth in a typical worker’s compensation over the same period. In 2013, average CEO pay was $24.8 million, and the CEO-to-worker compensation ratio was 510.7-to-1.
Forbes
April 24, 2019
If you don’t have any retirement savings, don’t panic. You have plenty of company; more than half of American families have no retirement savings, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
The Motley Fool
April 24, 2019
Monique Morrissey, 52, a retirement economist at The Economic Policy Institute, had a string of low-paying jobs at non-profits when she started out in the working world, but she was never much of an obsessive saver. She lived off her student stipend and borrowed money from her brother to make rent every month during grad school.
Money
April 24, 2019
That’s according to an analysis by Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank supported partially by teachers’ unions. The teacher weekly wage penalty reached a record 21.4 percent in 2018.
Education Week
April 24, 2019
The Economic Policy Institute issued an analysis today that found teachers were paid 21.4% less in 2018 in weekly wages than similar college graduates after accounting for education, experience, and other factors.
The Atlanta Journal Constitution
April 24, 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.
MarketWatch
April 24, 2019