The Hill
February 12, 2019
The Economic Policy Institute describes the difference between a teacher’s salary and a professional with similar education and experience as a pay penalty. Entry-level teachers often make 20 percent less than other entry level college graduates and by mid-career than extends to 30 percent.
Courthouse News Service
February 12, 2019
Today, 18 states still use the tipped minimum wage of $2.13 per hour even though some states have set higher minimum wages, according to the Economic Policy Institute, which frequently advocates minimum wage increases. In Nebraska, for example, the minimum wage is $9 while tipped workers still only make $2.13 an hour—meaning around $7 per hour is accounted for with tips. (EPI has a map that tracks the differences in each state.)
Forbes
February 12, 2019
The Economic Policy Institute describes the difference between a teacher’s salary and a professional with similar education and experience as a pay penalty. Entry-level teachers often make 20 percent less than other entry level college graduates and by mid-career than extends to 30 percent.
VOX
February 12, 2019
The Hill
February 12, 2019
The decline in teacher pay has been a significant public policy issue highlighted in these waves of strikes and protests. A report published by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) in September 2018 found teacher pay has eroded since the mid-1990’s, with teacher pay penalties – the percentage by which public school teachers are paid less than comparable workers – growing to 18.7% in 2017.
The Guardian
February 12, 2019
How hard? As any parent can tell you, child care is one of the biggest costs a family faces. According to the Economic Policy Institute’s state-by-state tables, in Alabama it’s $5,637 a year for an infant and an only slightly less daunting $4,871 for a 4-year-old. That’s 69 percent of the average rent and 33.7 percent less than the cost of in-state tuition at a four-year college. At the other end of the alphabet, West Virginia parents are worse off: For them, infant care, at $7,926, is 32 percent more than the cost of college. Pick a state at random and the results are no better. New York: $14,144, or double the cost of a year of college. Illinois: $12,964. California: $11,817. No wonder child care is affordable for only a small minority of families, meaning they pay 10 percent or less of their income for it: 17.8 percent of families in Minnesota, 18.7 percent in Massachusetts, 37.7 percent in Georgia. And that’s for just one child. Most families have more.
The New York Times
February 12, 2019
In order to determine what it costs to retire in every state, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed annual expenses at the state level as determined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ 2017 Consumer Expenditure Survey. We then reviewed data from the Economic Policy Institute’s Family Budget Calculator for a couple 65 or older with no dependents, which measures the income a family needs in order to attain a modest yet adequate standard of living at the metropolitan level. Using the Consumer Expenditure Survey’s differences in budgetary needs between the average American and residents 65 and over, 24/7 Wall St. calculated the average annual retirement costs by state.
24/7 Wall St.
February 12, 2019
Last year D.C. made the news when the Economic Policy Institute released a report that stated that unemployment for African Americans in the District was the highest in the nation. Finding gainful employment, let alone a career, in the District can be hard. And returning citizens from the prison system face greater risk of unemployment and recidivism.
Afro
February 12, 2019
Some might argue that those rates are disparate because whites represent nearly 61 percent of the U.S. population, compared with Latinos’ 18 percent. But they’d be hard pressed to explain away the fact that the wage gaps between these two groups are so pronounced. And these gaps are due to discrimination, not educational attainment level or relevant work experience, according to an Economic Policy Institute paper from July 2018.
“Attaining a college education has not closed the average Hispanic-white wage gap,” the paper concluded. “In 2016, Hispanic women with … a bachelor’s degree or more education … made 36.4 percent less than white men with a college education, which is a just slightly narrower pay gap than in 1980 (37.7 percent) and is essentially the same as the pay gap between Hispanic women and white men with less than a high school education (those who have not obtained a high school diploma or equivalent) in 2016 (36.3 percent).”
The Register-Mail
February 12, 2019