- Five-year and 10-year average labor force participation rate, sourced from the Economic Policy Institute
The Colorado Springs Business Journal
July 5, 2019
Sadly, the labor and racial inequities persist today. As recently as 2018, the Economic Policy Institute reported that black unemployment was at least twice as high as white unemployment at the national level. The same report found that in 14 states and in the District of Columbia, African American unemployment rates exceeded white unemployment rates by a ratio of 2-to-1 or higher.
Afro
July 5, 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.
Reading Eagle
July 5, 2019
The Economic Policy Institute created a Family Budget Calculator that measures the income a family requires to attain an adequate standard of living. In Boston, for example, the income required for two adults and two children is $111,724. This is not an anecdotal padded estimate. The costs of an adequate standard of living are rising to ridiculous levels.
MR Online
July 5, 2019
However, tactics to push serial arbitration, as well as public scrutiny sparked by the #MeToo movement opposing arbitration, have led employers to question whether to reflexively push for such agreements. This is despite U.S. Supreme Court rulings in recent years that bolstered the Federal Arbitration Act, the law that governs the agreements. More than half of nonunion private-sector employers have mandatory arbitration procedures, according to a 2018 report from the Economic Policy Institute.
Bloomberg Law
July 5, 2019
According to the Economic Policy Institute, if expenses for childcare were capped at 10 percent of a family’s annual income, families around the state would save more than $5,000 per year.
The Bedford Citizen
July 5, 2019
Among the 33 groups that signed the letter are Public Citizen, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the Economic Policy Institute and the Center for Digital Democracy.
The Hill
July 3, 2019
According to the Washington, D.C.-based think tank Economic Policy Institute, Uber drivers earn less than $10 an hour once commissions, vehicle expenses, and self-employment taxes are factored in. Low pay continues to be a driving factor for drivers to organize. Uber and Lyft drivers in the USA have requested union membership and collective bargaining to address low wages. Efforts to organize have been stymied in the United States by the National Labor Relations Board and in Canada by a regulatory board.
LaborPress.org
July 3, 2019
Rob Scott, director of trade and manufacturing policy research at Washington-based think tank The Economic Policy Institute, said that American manufacturing is still an important part of the American economy and one that food and beverage companies are particularly well-positioned to harness.
“In food processing, weight and distance matters,” Scott said. “We produce most of what we consume here.”
Forbes
July 3, 2019
Federal debt is growing exponentially. Do we borrow even more? Tax the rich? Based on 2017 data, it takes at least $718,766 in gross earnings for a couple or individual to be in the often maligned “top 1 percent.” Entry to the top 10 percent of earners takes $118,400. (Economic Policy Institute.) There are not enough “rich” to carry the financial burden. The middle class needs help, declare politicians, yet it’s the middle class that ultimately pays the bills.
Dunwoody Crier
July 3, 2019