Seattle’s neighborhoods and suburbs have long been segregated by race. That was no accident – it was carefully engineered by the government, says Richard Rothstein, a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute, and the author of a new book, “The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America.”
KUOQ
January 13, 2017
The workplace gender gap is real: In a report published last fall, the Economic Policy Institute found that after controlling for education and occupation, women are paid less than men, even among recent college graduates. In another study, researchers gave science faculty identical resumes of a candidate applying for a lab manager position, but with different names. Male and female faculty were equally likely to rate “John” higher and offer “Jennifer” a lower starting salary.
The Atlantic
January 12, 2017
But the clerical workers have also been in the midst of their own contract negotiations since April, and they accuse the UC of delaying the process. Teamsters Local 2010, their union, says that their wages have gone down by about 25% over the past two decades when you adjust for cost of living. And they point to a study by the Economic Policy Institute that found over 80% of UC union employees can’t afford an “adequate but modest standard of living.”
KALW
January 12, 2017
The border adjustment tax can’t be applied to specific companies either. “It is not company-specific in any way, it would be imposed across the board,” says Robert Scott, a trade expert at the Economic Policy Institute. In theory, here’s how a border adjustment tax works: It gives tax breaks to U.S. businesses that ship goods to other countries, and it takes away tax breaks from companies that bring in products from abroad.
CNN Money
January 12, 2017
While the new CAP report spelled out what would happen if all DACA recipients were pushed out of the workforce, Daniel Costa, the director for Immigration Law and Policy Research for the Economic Policy Institute, pointed out that this would only happen if Trump enforced his early campaign promise to deport all 11 million undocumented immigrants. More recently, Trump has backtracked and stated that he will instead focus deportations on individuals with criminal records. “If people are able to get DACA, they have to have relatively clean criminal records and have lived in the country for years, so they’re the lowest priorities for deportation even under a Trump administration,” Costa told me. “This means they’ll probably stay around for a while and will have to work, so they’ll have to go to the black market to find work that doesn’t require documentation. A lot have gotten college degrees, and they’ll be underutilized in labor markets and more susceptible to exploitation.”
Vice News
January 11, 2017
“The FSLA is the most basic wage and hourly law ever passed,” Economic Policy Institute vice president Ross Eisenbrey told The Record of the nearly 80-year-old enactment. “The idea behind it was to spread work so people wouldn’t have to work such long hours. Back then, the typical work week was about 60 hours. The law doesn’t prohibit more than a 40-hour work week, but it requires that the worker be compensated at a rate of time one-half their regular wage.”… “Almost every hourly worker is covered by the law and in some cases so are salary workers,” Eisenbrey added. “Many tweaks have been made to it since its original enactment, most of them aimed at expanding its jurisdiction to include even more workers like those in the public sector.”
Florida Record
January 11, 2017
The unemployment rate among African-Americans is double that of whites, and more than a third of black adults with jobs work for poverty level wages, according to the liberal-leaning Economic Policy Institute. (The infographic, at right — produced by EPI — illustrates some of the March’s “unfinished business”).
KQED
January 11, 2017
“It’s a pretty iconic American industry,” said Josh Bivens, the research and policy director at the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington think tank. When Trump mentions the country’s gradual loss of car-making jobs, “he is harking back to the past, when the auto industry played a larger role in building the country.”
The Washington Post
January 10, 2017
“We’re moving in the right direction,” said Elise Gould, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal think tank that says there are more than 2 million such “missing workers.” “We’ve made huge amounts of progress. We’re just not there yet.”
The Huffington Post
January 10, 2017
And according to the Economic Policy Institute, there is an “easy-to-understand root of rising income inequality, slow living-standards growth, and a host of other key economic challenges: the near stagnation of hourly wage growth for the vast majority of American workers over the past generation.”
Bloomberg
January 10, 2017