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 or $1,150 each month.
Patch
August 2, 2019
Child care isn’t cheap in Texas. According to updated research from the Economic Policy Institute, parents in Texas shell out $9,324 for infant care on average every year or $777 each month.
Patch
August 2, 2019
Paying somebody to look after the kids while you work is more expensive in New York than almost every other state – and much more than tuition costs at a public college, according to research by the Economic Policy Institute.
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August 2, 2019
Child care isn’t cheap in Colorado. According to updated research from the Economic Policy Institute, parents in Colorado shell out $15,325 for infant care on average every year or $1,277 each month.
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August 2, 2019
Child care isn’t cheap in Colorado. According to updated research from the Economic Policy Institute, parents in Colorado shell out $15,325 for infant care on average every year or $1,277 each month.
Patch
August 2, 2019
Child care isn’t cheap in Ohio. According to updated research from the Economic Policy Institute, parents in Ohio shell out $9,697 for infant care on average every year or $808 each month.
Patch
August 2, 2019
Child care isn’t cheap in Maryland, which is one of the most expensive states in the country for those seeking out this service. Maryland ranked 7th out of 50 states for the cost of infant care, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Infant care for one child eats up 17.6 percent of a median family’s income in Maryland, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Patch
August 2, 2019
The unemployment rate among African-Americans in Michigan stood at 6.7% as of March 2019, according to the Economic Policy Institute. That number, while still roughly double the rate among whites in Michigan, was down from 10% at the end of 2016.
The Wall Street Journal
August 2, 2019
Trump’s claims that black joblessness has dropped on his watch obscure a more complicated reality. Yes, the unemployment rate has been falling, as it had been for years during Barack Obama’s presidency. But black unemployment is still double that of white unemployment, and the wage gap between the races is worsening, said Valerie Wilson, director of the program on race, ethnicity, and the economy at the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank. “The most that we could say [about falling black unemployment] is that he hasn’t done anything to reverse that trend—not that he’s been helpful,” Wilson told me.
The Atlantic
August 2, 2019
The impact of this rule has led to concerns by many in the payroll industry that it would encourage “fissuring”, understood as the practice of using temp labor through a staffing company in lieu of W-2 employees overall having a negative effect on the workforce. An article by the Economic Policy Institute details this issue further. That being said, the staffing industry has their own concerns about the proposed definition of Joint Employer Status. It’s conceivable that a staffing company may be held responsible for FLSA violations by their client. Read more here.
ERP Software Blog
August 1, 2019