That’s terrible. The vice president of the Economic Policy Institute said, “The United States is the only advanced economy in the world that does not guarantee its workers paid vacation days and paid holidays.” We are working ourselves into stress-filled lives filled with sickness and fraying emotions. Most people could use a day off — a “mental health day” as it were.
Daily Herald
June 17, 2019
Wal-Mart alone cost U.S. workers more than 400,000 jobs between 2001 and 2013, according to the Economic Policy Institute. That is a sizable fraction of the 3.2 million jobs that were lost in the U.S. due to trade relations with China.
Counter Punch
June 17, 2019
But how do we maximize those job-generating benefits? Tougher Buy America (not to be confused with Buy American) provisions in infrastructure spending legislation, which likely voters from both parties strongly support, are one way. A more permanent, systemic solution—coupled with Buy America provisions—is slashing the manufacturing trade deficit by two-thirds, according to a new report by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI).
Alliance for American Manufacturing
June 17, 2019
Income inequality is higher in states that voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 when measured by the average income of the top one percent against the average income of the bottom 99 percent, according to data from a new report by the Economic Policy Institute. For Clinton states, the top incomes were on average 23.6 times the average income for the other 99 percent.
Breitbart
June 17, 2019
In other words, inequality has local officials coming and going. The ranks of the homeless are growing because almost all the gains from America’s growing economy, as the Economic Policy Institute’s Elise Gould testified to Congress this past March, are “going to households at the top.”
Counter Punch
June 17, 2019
According to the Economic Policy Institute, a family in the United States with an annual income of more than $420,000 qualifies as being in the top one percent. Over a working lifetime, assuming 40 working years, this would equate to $16,800,000.
FanSided
June 17, 2019
That’s $4,277 a month, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Costs in this calculation include housing, food, transportation, healthcare, other necessities, and taxes, not including savings or discretionary spending.
Business Insider
June 17, 2019
While that number isn’t far off from what the average American earns, a study conducted by the Economic Policy Institute showed that teachers earn 17 percent less than college-educated professionals with similar degrees.
NTD
June 17, 2019
According to an Economic Policy Institute report last year, Vermont ranks 16 in most expensive child care, with an average annual cost of just more than $11,000. New Hampshire comes in at 12, with just under $12,000. For most families, like the Nolan’s, that’s a significant expense.
WCAX 3
June 17, 2019
President Trump is threatening new tariffs on Chinese goods if Chinese President Xi Jinping does not meet with him at the upcoming G20 Summit. Robert Scott, senior economist and director of trade and manufacturing policy research at The Economic Policy Institute, discusses the state of U.S. trade tensions.
Cheddar
June 12, 2019