Federal spending on immigration enforcement is 11 times greater than spending to enforce labor policies, reported the Economic Policy Institute(EPI), a progressive think tank. EPI cited its analysis of 2018 federal budget data.
HR Dive
June 26, 2019
Emma Garcia, who worked on the Economic Policy Institute report, said what is particularly troubling is the growing number of teachers without full certification, not pursuing a traditional route into teaching, who are considered inexperienced or novice teachers and who have no education background in their subject matter. (Emma quoted throughout)
NBC News
June 26, 2019
Lawrence Mishel is a distinguished fellow at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. He crunched data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Employer Costs for Employee Compensation.
“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,” according to Mishel.
MultiBriefs
June 26, 2019
The Economic Policy Institute recently looked at the numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, crunched the numbers and found out that worker bonuses in the United States ever since the passage of the Republican tax cut in the a at the end of 2017, those bonuses to workers have actually fallen 22% since corporations started pocketing more money.
Ring of Fire
June 26, 2019
And today, at an all-day conference the Economic Policy Institute is staging called “Taxing the (Very) Rich,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) will announce a new plan to impose a 10 percent surtax on income above $2 million. He intends to pair it with a provision to end the “stepped-up basis” treatment of inherited assets, which helps shield the ultrawealthy from income taxes. Van Hollen will propose dedicating the resulting revenue to “fully fund the federal commitment to K-12 education,” spokeswoman Bridgett Frey says in an email.
The Washington Post
June 26, 2019
Elise Gould, a senior researcher at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, said that the most recent government shutdown—during which many government workers faced personal financial crises—illuminated that even people with stable, middle-class incomes are living paycheck to paycheck. In her view, it’s not that people don’t want to reduce expenses, it’s that many literally can’t. “In a world where lots of people can’t find $400 for some unexpected expense, like fixing their car, I think a lot fewer people are spending money on lattes to begin with,” she said. “It’s like, who are we even talking to?”
VICE
June 26, 2019
In a couple of days I’m going to be participating in an Economic Policy Institute conference on “excessive wealth disorder” — the problems and dangers created by extreme concentration of income and wealth at the top. I’ve been asked to give a short talk at the beginning of the conference, focusing on the political and policy distortions high inequality creates, and I’ve been trying to put my thoughts in order. So I thought I might as well write up those thoughts for broader dissemination.
The New York Times
June 24, 2019
A 2018 study by the Economic Policy Institute found that Uber drivers took home the equivalent of $9.21 in hourly wages, after accounting for vehicle cost, health insurance, and any other benefits that would be earned by traditional employees. Lyft says its national hourly average for drivers is north of $30 per hour while en route to a fare or while carrying passengers.
Business Insider
June 24, 2019
A study by the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit Washington think tank, found that the average CEO of the top 350 U.S. companies in 2017 received compensation of $18.9 million based on stock options realized, salary and other payouts.
Newsday
June 24, 2019
“We don’t have an illegal immigration crisis at the border, we have a refugee crisis,” Scott said. “We have been backing oligarchs and military governments in this country for decades, and that has contributed to the crisis in these countries.”
Daily Caller
June 24, 2019