The Economic Policy Institute found in 2018, teachers across the country earned 13-percent less than private-sector workers with similar levels of education.
ABC 7 News
June 24, 2019
The Republican tax cuts for the rich came with promises of big bonuses for workers. This was the cover that corporations provided the GOP for the program, and it was as genuine as any other Donald Trump promise. Most of the bonuses were a long time coming and had already been negotiated long before the Republican tax cuts came into being. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its latest Employer Costs for Employee Compensation Listing, which the Economic Policy Institute analyzed. Guess what? That’s right:
An examination of overall wage and compensation growth does not provide much in the way of bragging rights for tax cutters, especially given the expectation of rising wages and compensation amidst low unemployment. Private sector compensation and W-2 wages both fell by 0.9 percent over the last year (March 2019 versus March 2018) and were lower in March 2019 than the average for 2017, the year before the tax bill passed. W-2 wages in March 2019, $27.44, were lower than in December 2017, $27.79, a drop of $0.35 or 1.2 percent.
Daily Kos
June 24, 2019
According to the Economic Policy Institute, fifty years after the Kerner Commission, Black workers still make only 82.5 cents on every dollar earned by white workers, and African Americans are 2.5 times as likely to be in poverty as whites. A recent study found that the median White family now has 41 times more wealth than the median Black family and 22 times more wealth than the median Latinx family. Incarceration of African Americans tripled after 1980 and is currently more than six times the white incarceration rate.
Countercurrents.org
June 24, 2019
The unemployment rate for blacks was twice as high as whites: 6.5 percent to 3.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2018, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a research group focusing on on low- and middle-income workers.
NJ.com
June 24, 2019
Of course, the companies and finance firms carving our economy into monopolies make rich payouts to plenty of executives other than CEOs. By 2015, the average income of the top 1% of US earners was $1,300,000 while the average income of the other 99% was $50,000. Average earners in the top slice were taking home 26 times the average of everyone else, according to the Economic Policy Institute’s New Gilded Age report.
Daily Kos
June 24, 2019
Nevada’s wage floor has not changed since 2010 when it was set at $8.25 for workers not offered health benefits and $7.25 otherwise. Nearly 300,000 Nevadans will see higher pay under the new minimum wage law, according to a study conducted by the Washington, D.C.-based think tank Economic Policy Institute.
Pahrump Valley Times
June 24, 2019
Scott and his team also helped win over individual members with district-by-district data that showed the number of people who would get a raise, offering a counterpoint to the objections from some local businesses.
Politico
June 24, 2019
But it hasn’t. As a result, the “real value” of the minimum wage has fallen by 17% over the last decade, a study from the Economic Policy Institute found. That adds up over time: Thanks to the stagnant minimum wage, the lowest-paying workers in America now earn $3,000 less every year in “real” dollars than they would have in 2009.
Bustle
June 24, 2019
The current $7.25 minimum hourly rate was set in 2009, right in the middle of the Great Recession. Since then, America’s lowest-paid workers have lost about $3,000 a year when you consider the rising cost of living, according to calculations from the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
VOX
June 24, 2019
A report of the Economic Policy Institute said the hourly wage gap between black young college graduates and their white counterparts is growing in the U.S.
International Business Times
June 24, 2019