It’s unclear whether $28 shows an increase over whatever bonuses workers might have gotten without the tax cuts. The left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, which recently analyzed federal pay data, found that the average 2018 bonus was just 1 cent higher than the average bonus in 2017. “This is not what the tax cutters promised, or bragged about soon after the tax bill passed,” EPI Senior Fellow Lawrence Mishel wrote.
CBS News
May 30, 2019
According to a 2019 report published by the Economic Policy Institute, the teacher shortage is real, large and growing. It cites critical indicators, including state-by-state vacancies, testimonials and data from state and school district officials, and declining enrollment in teacher preparation programs.
Clarksville Leaf-Chronicle
May 30, 2019
That bit of a rant leads me to the Economic Policy Institute’s new report on how teachers view their work environment.
Atlanta Journal Constitution
May 30, 2019
What the Economic Policy Institute Says About Teacher Pay
The EPI also notes that teachers rank lower on the salary scale than comparable professionals with similar educational backgrounds, earning 18.7 percent less nationally. Termed the “wage penalty,” this erosion in teacher pay has grown approximately 17 points since 1994 — from 1.8 percent to 18.7 percent.
GoBanking Rates
May 30, 2019
The Economic Policy Institute’s (EPI) recent paper on teacher shortages states that the crisis is growing worse than ever in America.
MultiBriefs: Exclusive
May 30, 2019
The study was conducted for the Economic Policy Institute, a non-partisan think tank.
WWJ News Radio
May 29, 2019
For a ballpark estimate of the jobs impact from lowering the U.S. trade deficit through a reciprocal tariff policy, the Economic Policy Institute provides this yardstick: For every $1 billion deficit reduction, U.S. employment increases by approximately 6,000. This suggests a USRTA jobs boost ranging between 350,000 and 380,000.
The Wall Street Journal
May 29, 2019
Meanwhile the pay of average Americans workers has barely budged during that time: Middle-wage workers’ hourly wage is up by 6 percent since 1979 while low-wage workers’ wages are actually down by 5 percent, as data from the Economic Policy Institute shows.
Urban Milwaukee
May 29, 2019
At a conference on “the future of work,” the two topics that now dominate discussion—robots and the gig economy—deserve workshops but not plenaries. The main plenary session should focus on the decades-long crisis of suppressed wages and deteriorating job quality created by policy changes on behalf of the rich and powerful to weaken labor standards, have excessive unemployment, expand corporate-driven globalization, spread fissured outsourcing/subcontracting, and dismantle collective-bargaining systems.
The American Prospect
May 29, 2019
Elise Gould, a senior economist with the Washington D.C.-based Economic Policy Institute told DailyMail.com that part of the issue could be that inflation and the cost of living in America has outstripped wage growth.
‘We’ve see very slow growth in wages,’ she said. ‘That’s one of the reasons we’ve seen an increase in household work hours in recent years … Families are feeling stretched thin in being able to afford just their basic needs. Even living pay check to pay check, a lot of them are falling behind.’
Daily Mail
May 29, 2019