In fact, the Washington-based Economic Policy Institute says there is a teacher shortage nationwide.
“Lack of sufficient, qualified teachers and staff instability threaten students’ ability to learn and reduce teachers’ effectiveness, and high teacher turnover consumes economic resources that could be better deployed elsewhere,” it says on its website.
Conway Daily Sun
July 31, 2019
One of the many benefits of my job is that it affords me the opportunity to meet with thousands of educators every year. Two concerns that I hear at nearly every campus across the country are teacher shortages and teacher retention, and the folks at the Economic Policy Institute echo these concerns. According to their recent report, our nation’s teacher shortage is “real, large and growing, and worse than we thought.”
EdSurge
July 31, 2019
Heidi Shierholz, senior economist and director of policy at the Economic Policy Institute said Scalia “has spent his career fighting for the interests of financial firms, corporate executives, and shareholders rather than the interests of working people.”
The Chief
July 31, 2019
Scalia “has spent his career fighting for the interests of financial firms, corporate executives, and shareholders rather than the interests of working people,” says Heidi Shierholz of the Economic Policy Institute.
Jacobin
July 31, 2019
According to the Economic Policy Institute, wage growth at the 10th (bottom) percentile was 50% faster in states that raised the minimum wage between 2013 and 2018 than in those that did not – and the gains were even stronger among female workers.
Project Syndicate
July 31, 2019
While the economy has been performing well, as Kudlow asserted, wage growth has remained relatively low. According to a report from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) updated in June, nominal wage growth in the private sector has remained at just 3.1 percent, despite historically low unemployment and significant tax cuts to corporations and businesses under the Trump administration. The EPI report says that workers will need to see average year-over-year wage growth of 3.5 to 4 percent before they actually start feeling the benefits of the economic recovery.
Newsweek
July 31, 2019
The average cost of infant care in Minnesota is more than $16,000 per year, according to the Economic Policy Institute, which is over $1,300 a month. The average cost of infant care in Iowa is around $10,000 a year.
KIMT
July 31, 2019
Financial Exchange Radio Show
Financial Exchange Radio Show
July 31, 2019
A study from the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit research group, found that Minnesota is the fourth most expensive state when it comes to infant care.
They found it costs families an average of $1,341 a month per child for infant care which is 30 percent more than the average rent in the state.
FOX-9 Minneapolis
July 31, 2019
Minnesota is one of the most expensive states in the U.S. to pay for childcare, with the average annual cost of infant care standing at $16,087.
That’s according to research by the Economic Policy Institute, which says the average weekly cost of infant childcare in the state is $1,341.
Bring Me The News
July 31, 2019