Because of racial residential segregation, low-income African Americans are much less likely to be afforded the opportunity to attend socioeconomically integrated schools—where low-income students perform as much as two grade levels higher than low-income students in high-poverty schools. According to a 2017 analysis by Emma García of the Economic Policy Institute, less than one in five poor black children had access to a predominantly middle-class school, compared to almost half of poor white children.
The American Prospect
July 2, 2019
The Economic Policy Institute think tank reports that teachers make 19% less than people with similar educations. When benefits are included, the figure is 11%. The authors of the study, EPI Distinguished Fellow Lawrence Mishel and UC Berkeley Economist and EPI Research Associate Sylvia Allegretto, looked at the potential crisis of the pay gap as its effects the ability to build a solid teacher workforce. They were quoted as saying, “Deteriorating teacher pay is not just a fairness issue. Eliminating the teacher pay penalty is crucial to building the teacher workforce we need. In order to recruit and retain talented teachers, school districts need to address the inadequacy of teacher pay.”
24/7 Wall St.
July 2, 2019
The Economic Policy Institute, in its research, found that as many as 1 in 10 African-American students has an incarcerated parent. One in four has a parent who is or has been incarcerated. The discriminatory incarceration of African American parents is an important cause of their children’s lowered performance.
The Philly Tribune
July 2, 2019
Robert Scott, the director of trade and manufacturing policy research at the progressive Economic Policy Institute, has even been cited by Trump while making the case that imbalanced trade with China has hurt the workforce in the US.
“Currency manipulation acts like an artificial subsidy to the host country’s exports and as a tax on all US exports.”
Robert Scott, Economic Policy Institute
Al Jazeera
July 2, 2019
“We have an issue with wage inequality, income inequality and wealth inequality where most of the growth is going to the top,” said Valerie Wilson, director of the Economic Policy Institute’s program on race, ethnicity and the economy. “Those people are less likely to be women, and much less likely to be women of color.”
“There is still room for employment-population ratios to grow: These are largely untapped segments of the labor force,” said Ms. Wilson at the Economic Policy Institute. “Since there are more black and brown people in the population, in the labor force, it’s reasonable to think that these are the groups in which you’ll see the growth.”
The New York Times
July 2, 2019
According to a study by the Economic Policy Institute, most Uber drivers earn less than $10 an hour after their driving costs are subtracted. Ejaz Butt, an Uber driver who was one of the workers behind the move to unionize, said the drivers wants to receive a guaranteed minimum wage of $15 per hour, as well as sick days, vacation days and breaks. He also said drivers are often in the car for several hours without breaks to eat and use the restroom.
Benefits Canada
July 1, 2019
Oxfam estimates that raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour would result in pay increases for nearly half a million Mississippi workers, 396,000 of which Oxfam estimates will still earn under $15-an-hour in 2024 if the wage is not increased. The Oxfam report used data supplied from the Economic Policy Institute, a D.C.-based think-tank with labor union backing, and its Minimum Wage Simulation Model based on data from the Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and Congressional Budget Office.
SunHerald
July 1, 2019
Think of our new visualization as a spiraling timeline. We gathered CEO-to-worker compensation ratios from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a non-profit think tank focused on promoting the needs of low- and medium-income workers for public policy decisions. The EPI analyzed compensation figures for CEOs at 350 of the largest US companies based on sales from 1965 to 2017. They take into account the ratio as two numbers: as stock options realized (the dark red) and as options granted (the light pink).
Ladders
July 1, 2019
Research has shown that workers’ concerns aren’t unfounded: According to the Washington, D.C.-based think tank Economic Policy Institute, Uber drivers effectively make less than $10 an hour on average once commissions, vehicle expenses, and self-employment taxes are factored in—well below the average minimum wage in most large cities.
Pacific Standard
July 1, 2019
The chief executives of America’s top 350 companies earned 312 times more than their workers on average last year, according to the Economic Policy Institute as reported by the Guardian. The top 50 university administrators had yearly salaries ranging from $1 million to $4.9 million at private institutions and from $641,817 to $4.3 million at public institutions, while the top salaries for full professors at private and public universities ranged from $175,000 to $259,000 (20 institutions as reported by Inside Higher Education) (Chronicle of Higher Education).
Ashland Tidings
July 1, 2019