Next City
December 21, 2016
MarketWatch
December 20, 2016
Fortune
December 20, 2016
Mass incarceration is taking a huge toll on black students in this country. A new report by the Economic Policy Institution (EPI) found that the “discriminatory incarceration” of black parents can lead to lowered performance in their children’s education and detrimental effects on their physical and mental health. One in four black students have a parent who has been to or is currently in prison. One in ten black students have a parent who is currently in prison, according to the report. EPI’s report shows to educators that without criminal justice reform, the racial achievement gap will persist.
The Huffington Post
December 20, 2016
The federal government doesn’t have figures on NAFTA’s effect on jobs. But the Economic Policy Institute think tank estimated that as of 2010, the trade imbalance with Mexico had cost the U.S. about 683,000 net jobs — about 60% of those in manufacturing.
Los Angeles Times
December 20, 2016
“I think the first year will be a true measure of who he is as a policy person,” said Lawrence Mishel, president of the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank. “We don’t really know how it’s going to play out. I’m sure all the CEOs and people he’s got in his administration are going to be anti-regulatory,” he predicted… The Economic Policy Institute calculated that the typical CEO made 276 times more than a worker at the median last year, although it did find that this is actually an improvement: It’s down from 302 the year before.
NBC News
December 20, 2016
Around 17 percent of U.S. workers have erratic schedules, according to an Economic Policy Institute report, and they’re employed disproportionately in low-wage fields like retail. A number of cities have moved to force businesses to offer workers more stable schedules.
The Huffington Post
December 20, 2016
Part-time employees — whose ranks have grown in recent years — put in about half as many hours each week as full-time workers, according to a report by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. They’re also more than twice as likely to have work hours that vary from week to week.
CBS Moneywatch
December 20, 2016
The liberal Economic Policy Institute has a data set that does make that differentiation, and the numbers EPI director of research Josh Bivens came up with are sobering indeed. Between November 2007 and November 2016, Bivens found, non-Hispanic white employment shrank by a mind-boggling 4.4 million, while Hispanic employment increased by 4.8 million, Asian by 2.1 million, and black by 1.8 million.
The American Prospect
December 20, 2016