New research confirms what many of us already knew: rich men are way overconfident in their own knowledge and ability, even in subjects on which they have little expertise.
MarketWatch
May 2, 2019
The analysis is contained in a paper issued this month by Sylvia Allegretto, co-chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at UC Berkeley, and Lawrence Mishel, a distinguished fellow at the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive Washington D.C.-based think tank.
EdSource
May 2, 2019
AFT cited an Economic Policy Institute report that was released two days before her speech.
The 74
May 2, 2019
Luckily for us, there are smart researchers out there who have figured out how to accurately compare teacher salaries with salaries of other industries. Researchers from the Economic Policy Institute have been measuring the teacher wage gap for more than 15 years. Unlike Johnson, the EPI researchers’ comparison of teachers to non-teachers ensures an apples-to-apples comparison by only including working age, full-time workers with comparable educational attainment. According to their more accurate measures, pay for North Carolina teachers trails other professionals by 26.5 percent.
NC Policy Watch
May 2, 2019
According to the Economic Policy Institute study, Arizona teachers earn 32.6% less than comparable college graduates.
12 News
May 2, 2019
Axios reproduced the teacher pay penalty chart.
Axios
May 2, 2019
Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s plan for college aid and debt forgiveness recognizes just how broken our system of financing higher education has become.
USA Today
May 2, 2019
“The CEO compensation at the largest firms has grown by several orders of magnitude more quickly than those of regular workers, whose wages have remained relatively stagnant,” says Lawrence Mishel, distinguished fellow at the Economic Policy Institute. “These executives push for exorbitant pay because it’s a measure to them of their value and standing, but I have a hard time believing they are three hundred times more valuable than a typical employee who is good at their job.”
Variety
May 1, 2019
I was also shocked at the frequency with which wage theft happens. Reputable studies from several years ago estimate that two-thirds of all low-wage workers in the country have experienced at least one form of wage theft. The amount of wages stolen each year in Minnesota may be in the hundreds of millions of dollars: nationally, the Economic Policy Institute has estimated that $50 billion a year is stolen in wage theft. That’s more than three times the value of all the goods stolen through robbery, burglary, larceny and auto theft combined.
Workday Minnesota
May 1, 2019
The numbers clearly back this up. A 2017 report by the Economic Policy Institute, Diversity in the New York City Union and Nonunion Construction Sectors, showed that more than half of unionized construction workers are people of color. Black workers in particular have a 5% higher share of employment than in the nonunion sector.
Crain’s New York Business
May 1, 2019