The top 1% of income earners is also often used to categorize the rich. Those people made at least $719,000 in 2017, according to the most recent wage data reported by the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank.
U.S. News
June 11, 2019
High school graduates receiving their diplomas this month have better job prospects than those who graduated in 2007. But they’re still worse off than high school graduates in 2000. That’s according to a new report from the Washington D.C.-based Economic Policy Institute.
KASU
June 11, 2019
“Fifty years of social science research has confirmed, over and over again, that the best predictor of student achievement is not teacher quality or any other school influence, but the social and economic circumstances of the children,” says Richard Rothstein, a research associate with the Economic Policy Institute.
Statesman Journal
June 11, 2019
As Lawrence Mishel, an economist at the liberal-leaning Economic Policy Institute, notes, poverty creates obstacles that would trip up even the most naturally gifted student. He points to the plight of “children who frequently change schools due to poor housing; have little help with homework; have few role models of success; have more exposure to lead and asbestos; have untreated vision, ear, dental, or other health problems; … and live in a chaotic and frequently unsafe environment.”
The Atlantic
June 11, 2019
Okay, so both Warren and Rubio use the same phrase, Economic Patriotism. And for all their stated differences, they agree on a key symptom of the problem, outsourcing, which is deleterious to both employment and national security. The Economic Policy Institute, for instance, has estimated that in the dozen years after the U.S. normalized trade relations with China in 2000, some 3.2 million American jobs went to the People’s Republic.
Breitbart
June 11, 2019
According to the Economic Policy Institute, in 1965 bosses of the largest companies in the U.S. earned around 20 times more than their average employee. By 1989 the number had more than trebled to 58 times. Today it’s over 300 times and rising. And some CEOs are making astronomically more than their workers.
Forbes
June 11, 2019
Policies should be passed that give shareholders greater control over “excessive CEO pay,” according to a new paper from the Economic Policy Institute.
Pensions & Investments
June 11, 2019
Average wages for high school graduates in the U.S. are finally higher than they were in the middle of the financial crash — but they remain lower than they were in 2000, according to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute, Erica writes.
- The average pay for white high school graduates increased about 1% from 2000 to 2019, but fell 2.7% for black graduates.
Axios
June 11, 2019
Class of 2000 rules. Class of 2019 drools. “Compared with those who graduated [high school] into the strong 2000 labor market, the Class of 2019 still faces real economic challenges, as demonstrated by elevated levels of underemployment as well as low wages and worsened wage gaps for black workers,” Elise Gould, Julia Wolfe and Zane Mokhiber write at the Economic Policy Institute.
The Wall Street Journal
June 11, 2019
La tendencia al decrecimiento puede también reflejar más que una simple inclinación al minimalismo, sino también el desgaste de un sistema en que el crecimiento no ha generado grandes beneficios para muchas personas. Aparte del acceso a bienes más abundantes y baratos, la gente entiende que los beneficios del crecimiento no están distribuidos de forma equitativa. En 1965, los directivos de empresas ganaban 20 veces más que la clase obrera; a partir de 2013, en cambio, ganaban 296 veces esa cantidad. Entre 1973 y 2013, la remuneración horaria aumentó solo un 9 por ciento, mientras que la productividad lo hizo un 74 por ciento. “Esto significa que los trabajadores han estado produciendo mucho más de lo que reciben de sus empleadores”, señalaba en un informe el Economic Policy Institute, un laboratorio de ideas especializado en economía.
VICE
June 11, 2019