- Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio said the bottom 60 percent of workers “haven’t seen a raise since 1980.” But Census data analyzed separately by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service and the Economic Policy Institute show there has been a rise in inflation-adjusted wages over that time period.
FactCheck.org
July 2, 2019
“Anyone who’s earning 15% or 20% more than minimum wage might see an increase themselves,” said David Cooper, a senior economic analyst at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank. Unlike those paid at the minimum, these workers won’t see an immediate boost, Cooper added: “These are impacts that are likely to occur over the course of the next year.”
CBS News
July 2, 2019
Neither Methodist, nonprofit Baptist Memorial Healthcare nor Regional One, the public hospital, pay all their employees at least $15 an hour. Even that figure would make it impossible to make ends meet for an employee trying alone to support a household with dependents, according to MIT’s Living Wage Calculator and another created by the Economic Policy Institute, both of which take into account local living expenses.
NPR
July 2, 2019
Growing employer opposition to organized labor was reflected in summary evidence of the “standard practice for workers to be subjected to threats, interrogation, harassment, surveillance and retaliation for union activity” gathered by Kate Brofenbrenner. director of labor education research at Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations and published May 20, 2009, by the non-partisan Economic Policy Institute.
Sun Journal
July 2, 2019
“The more people are struggling to make ends meet themselves, the more they may notice inequality,” said Elise Gould, an economist at the liberal Economic Policy Institute.
WRAL.com
July 2, 2019
Economic inequality cannot be cured by education because, as we discussed earlier, blacks are paid less at every educational level. In fact, the Economic Policy Institute says that wealth and pay disparity increases as education increases. The notion that black people don’t study hard enough, pay attention in school or value learning is a fallacy perpetuated by white supremacy to salve the pain that they created the wealth disparity and perpetuate it intentionally.
The Root
July 2, 2019
According to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute of employment statistics and population data, the unemployment rate for white workers in South Carolina during the first quarter of this year was less than the statewide average, about 2.4 percent. The jobless rate for black residents was about double that at 5 percent.
That’s reflective of figures seen across the country, said Valerie Wilson, the director of the Economic Policy Institute’s Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy. Black workers had unemployment rates at least twice that of white workers in 16 states and the District of Columbia during the first quarter of 2019.
The Post and Courier
July 2, 2019
On What’d You Miss This Week, Facebook’s Head of Calibra David Marcus joined to discuss why the social media company is launching the cryptocurrency Libra and the subsequent regulatory pushback. Republican Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana, who sits on the Banking Committee, came on to talk about why he is skeptical of Libra and President Trump’s renewed attacks on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Skanda Amarnath, Director of Research & Analysis at Employ America, joined to explain why he thinks the Federal Reserve can learn a lot from Canada. Then Josh Bivens, Director of Research & Policy at the Economic Policy Institute, came on to talk about Sen. Bernie Sanders’ plan to wipe out $1.6 trillion of student debt.
Bloomberg
July 2, 2019
New research from the Economic Policy Institute offers solid evidence on high school grads’ experience over the past 20 years. Using the Current Population Survey, EPI studied the experience of recent high school grads, aged 18 to 21. The good news is that your job prospects are better now than they were for grads during the Great Recession of 2007-9. But not as good as they were for those who graduated in 2000. A troubling development is the rise of underemployment: Not being able to find full-time work. And black workers face a widening gap with others.
Herald Review
July 2, 2019
The Economic Policy Institute points to reasons that hotels are clustered away from residential areas, and finds a “strong possibility that (Airbnb) units are indeed imposing large costs on neighbors.” According to the Williams College Department of Economics, there are “mechanisms that may cause property values to decrease” and “might make living near concentrations of Airbnb units unpleasant.” Realtors are debating whether proximity to commercialized homes should be added to disclosure forms.
Cape Cod Times
July 2, 2019