Adding to the alarming outcomes from the Department of Education briefing, the Economic Policy Institute published study results in 2018 listing the negative effects of chronic absenteeism on student test scores. The report states that eighth-graders who missed three or more days the month before testing scored 0.3 to 0.6 standard deviations lower on the NAEP math test than students who did not miss any school.
Gallup
June 7, 2019
“[L]ow-wage workers in general, of which high school graduates make up a disproportionate share, have been showing larger wage gains over the last five years thanks to an economy approaching full employment as well as a series of state-level minimum wage increases,” according to a study released Thursday by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a Washington, D.C.-based think tank.
ThinkProgress
June 7, 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.
MPR News
June 7, 2019
Despite these numbers, career prospects for high-school graduates today still aren’t as good as they were for graduates in 2000, according to a study released Thursday by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a liberal think tank based in Washington, D.C.
Market Watch
June 7, 2019
A recent study conducted by the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, found a correlation between declining union membership and income inequality.
Politico
June 7, 2019
Shareholders — everyone from a retail investor with a 401(K) to asset management firms with vast pools of money — need the incentives and power to question exorbitant corporate pay in the companies where they invest money, according to a new paper from the Economic Policy Institute,.
MarketWatch
June 6, 2019
Before NAFTA, we did not have a significant trade deficit with Mexico. In the NAFTA world, we have run a stubborn $100 billion deficit year in, year out. According to the Economic Policy Institute, by 2013 NAFTA had displaced 852,000 U.S. jobs, mostly in the manufacturing sector.
CNBC
June 6, 2019
Income inequality has skyrocketed since the 1970s, with the top 1 percent of families earning 26.3 times more, on average, than the bottom 99 percent of families, according to a 2015 study by the Economic Policy Institute.
Yahoo
June 6, 2019
The Economic Policy Institute estimates that nearly half of American families have nothing saved for retirement. While some families enjoy working and hope to keep their jobs for the rest of their lives, others have nothing saved because they haven’t thought about it or keep putting it off. You want money set aside for your golden years when you no longer want to commit to an 8-to-5 job.
Credit.com
June 6, 2019
But the cost of living involves more than housing. Transportation, groceries, insurance and other factors are part of the equation. The Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank, found South Florida (including Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties) was the 23rd most expensive place to live, well behind Washington, D.C., Boston and Boulder, Colorado.
Miami Herald
June 6, 2019