The Economic Policy Institute looked at state and national income averages and places Texas 11 on the list, considerably behind the big top 3 – New York, Connecticut and Florida. “In the state of Texas you need an annual income of just over $440,000 a year, and relative to the nation that’s about $20,000 more than the national average,” says Mark Price, one of the authors of their study The New Gilded Age: Income Inequality in the U.S. by State, Metropolitan Area, and County.
740 KTRH
July 12, 2019
The Economic Policy Institute’s 2019 Family Budget Calculator looks into that and more.
For one person and no children, it is estimating it’s about $3,000 and $36,000 to make ends meet.
FOX 26 News
July 12, 2019
The resulting collapse of the nation’s health insurance markets would also drag Virginia’s economy down. Analysts at the Economic Policy Institute estimate that 10,000 Virginians would lose their jobs in the first two years after the court’s decision, and the state would lose more than $1.6 billion in federal health care dollars. If you think rural hospitals are struggling today, just wait until scores of their patients are suddenly unemployed and uninsured, and federal funding evaporates.
Virginia Mercury
July 12, 2019
However, consumer advocates say the outcomes of arbitration are even grimmer. Just 9% of people who bring such claims walk away with relief, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
CNBC
July 12, 2019
Companies like arbitration because it can be faster and cheaper than going through a long, drawn out court proceedings. That can benefit consumers as well. Typically, consumers wait 150 days for a decision in an arbitration case, as opposed to waiting an average of 215 days for a class action lawsuit to wrap up, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
CNBC
July 12, 2019
The Washington, DC metro area is one of the most expensive for child care in the country, costing upward of $23,000 a year for a single child, according to nonprofit Child Care Aware of America. In fact, according to the Economic Policy Institute, the District is ranked first, ahead of all 50 states, for the most expensive infant care in the nation, exceeding the annual cost of tuition to a four-year public university.
Northern Virginia Mag
July 12, 2019
Harris’s answer to tackling modern-day segregation is a $315 billion proposal that would elevate teacher pay. According to the Economic Policy Institute, teachers made 11.1 percent less than comparably educated workers in other professions in 2017.
The Atlantic
July 12, 2019
Guest: Richard Rothstein, Distinguished Fellow at the Economic Policy Institute, Author of “The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America”
A school desegregation policy that’s been over for decades is suddenly showing up in the national media because of this moment at the Democratic presidential debate two weeks ago. Courts stopped requiring districts bus black students into segregated white schools almost 20 years go. But the debate over school “busing” is more relevant today than you might expect.
Top of Mind
July 12, 2019
As Chair of the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittee, DeLauro held one of her first subcommittee hearings on wage theft—bringing in experts to discuss the issue. The House-passed Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations bill increased funding the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division WHD by $69 million, which will help add 500 new inspectors for a total of approximately 1,300. WHD’s mission is to look out for working people and make sure they are receiving their wages, yet it has been shortchanged over the last few decades. As a result, the number of cases investigated by WHD decreased by 63% between 1980 and 2015. The Economic Policy Institute estimates up to $50 billion as the total cost of wage theft each year; WHD was only able to recover $308 million in 2018.
U.S. Representative Rosa DeLauro
July 12, 2019
Wage theft affects millions of people, particularly women, people of color, and immigrants. Low-wage workers are acutely vulnerable to wage theft, and when wages are low to begin with, any amount the employer withholds can have dire consequences for the worker. The average low-wage worker loses $3,300 a year to wage theft, according to a survey by the Economic Policy Institute.
Teen Vogue
July 12, 2019