Black Americans have particularly suffered, thanks to inequities in the criminal justice system, employment, education, and healthcare. While the baby bonds bill is race neutral, it is designed to impact children of color, who disproportionately live in poverty compared to their white counterparts. According to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), in 2016, roughly 31% of black and 27% of Hispanic children lived in poverty. That’s compared to 11% of white children.
Yahoo Finance
August 1, 2019
Racial minorities live in poverty and lack access to social welfare. According to a 2015 report by Cable News Network (CNN), the income gap between various ethnicities had widened further – the wealth possessed by white people was 12 times higher than that of African Americans and nearly 11 times higher than that of Latinos. According to research published by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) on February 13, 2017, more than one in four black households have zero or negative net worth.
China Daily
August 1, 2019
Income inequality is a big factor in educational inequality. According to a report by the Economic Policy Institute, it is “one of today’s most pressing economic issues,” and is at a “worrisome level.” The report adds, however: “Rising inequality might not be such a major concern if our education, economic, and social protection systems acted as compensatory mechanisms, helping individuals, and especially children, rise above their birth circumstances and improve their mobility. But that is hardly the case.
Jewish Standard
August 1, 2019
Buttigieg also endorses raising the federal minimum wage to $15 by 2025. The Economic Policy Institute predicts the proposal will give over 8 million Hispanic workers a raise.
Miami Herald
August 1, 2019
- Increase wages for up to 33 million American workers, including 47.2% of workers in MS-02 according to independent economic analysis from the Economic Policy Institute. Even the CBO’s more cautious estimate of a similar proposal indicated as many as 27 million workers would see a wage increase;
Y’all Politics
August 1, 2019
Increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025 will raise the wages for 22.2% of the U.S. workforce, according to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), the progressive think tank.
MarketWatch
August 1, 2019
s evidence that this would be better for workers, the Economic Policy Institute cites research showing that in the states where tipped workers are paid $2.13 an hour and tips are used to bring that up to the ordinary minimum wage, 18.5 percent of waiters, waitresses, and bartenders live in poverty. That number goes down to 11.1 percent when tipped workers are paid an ordinary minimum wage. (The fact that people making minimum wage are living in poverty at all is a separate conversation.)
Jacobin
August 1, 2019
Currently, over 55% of workers — about 60 million in private, nonunionized jobs — have signed contracts with forced-arbitration provisions, according to a 2017 study by the Economic Policy Institute. It is estimated that by the year 2024, more than four in every five workers will have been forced to sign an arbitration agreement as part of the hiring process. It’s no surprise that corporations are increasingly turning to forced arbitration: Employees are less likely to win in arbitration than in either state or federal court, and even when they do win, they recover only a fraction of the money they would recover in court, according to research cited by the Economic Policy Institute.
Teen Vogue
August 1, 2019
It’s been estimated by the Economic Policy Institute that by 2024, about 80 percent of all American workers will be required to sign one as a condition of employment. Arbitration agreements often eliminate your jury trial rights for all kinds of employment-related claims, including violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Family Medical Leave Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Glassdoor
August 1, 2019