It is true that trade with Mexico has cost some Americans jobs. Carrier is moving 1,400 jobs to Mexico from Indiana. Robert Scott, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute estimates that America lost about 800,000 jobs to Mexico between 1997 and 2013. However, the growing trade ties between the two countries have created more jobs than they’ve killed, other experts argue.
CNNMoney
October 5, 2016
The EEOC move comes on the heels of a troubling Economic Policy Institute (EPI)report published in late September. The study analyzes wage data from 1979 through 2015 and splinters the narratives of African American economic progress often offered by the left and the right. EPI researchers found that rhapsodic accounts of black advancement can be misleading: The report documented that wage inequality is more acute today than it was more than 35 years ago. Set alongside other observations about race, class, gender, and work, these findings are even more striking.
The American Prospect
October 5, 2016
In 2015, according to a new study by the Economic Policy Institute, the gap in hourly wage pay between white and black workers widened to nearly 27 percent, the widest racial pay gap in 40 years. Further, the racial wealth gap is the highest it’s been in 30 years. Meanwhile, the richest Americans’ wealth has grown by an average of 736 percent. That’s 10 times the rate of wealth growth for the Latinos, and nearly 30 times the rate of growth for the black population, says a report by the Institute for Policy Studies.
US News and World Report
October 4, 2016
We’ve known for a while that black Americans aren’t making economic progress. A recent report from the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, shows that the black-white wage gap is now the widest it has been since 1979. What’s more interesting, though, is how inequality has been increasing, and for whom. It used to be that low-skilled black workers suffered the greatest disadvantage relative to their white counterparts. But there has been a strange reversal in the past 40 years. EPI finds that the black-white wage gap has become wider — and is widening faster — among those with more education
The Washington Post
October 3, 2016
And according to an Economic Policy Institute study released earlier this month, the overall wage gap between white and black workers is now the worst its been in 40 years ― 26.7 percent.
The Huffington Post
September 30, 2016
Among workaday families, retirement piggy banks tend to be quite small. Half of all families in the United States have less than $5,000 in retirement accounts, according to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank focused on the needs of low- and middle-income workers. Only about one in five families can boast $100,000 or more — still not much to last through decades of retirement.
The Boston Globe
September 30, 2016
Daniel Costa, an immigration expert at the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank that studies issues involving low- and middle-income workers, argues that it makes no sense to fill a permanent labor shortage with temporary personnel. Unless they have equal standing to their American counterparts, immigrants will continue to be subject to exploitation. “They should have the option to stay if they want,” he says.
Quartz
September 29, 2016
In case there is any doubt, arbitration is a less favorable venue for parties pushed into arbitration agreements than the ordinary court system. An Economic Policy Institute study, for example, compared arbitration in employment cases to similar court cases. It found that employees were significantly less likely to prevail in arbitration, and that they received significantly less money when they did prevail:
Think Progress
September 29, 2016
Private pension funds with expertise in infrastructure have a role to play in such schemes. Rich-country central banks, notably the Federal Reserve, can afford to be more relaxed about the threat of inflation. An economy at full pelt begins to draw people into the workforce who were thought to have opted out for good. “Ex-felons were doing pretty well in 2000,” notes Larry Mishel, of the Economic Policy Institute, a think-tank in Washington, DC. The risks of slamming the brakes on too quickly outweigh those of excessive policy stimulus.
The Economist
September 29, 2016
Economists warned during a panel discussion Tuesday that black workers are being paid less than their white colleagues at an increasing rate. Research has shown there has been a wage gap between white and black workers for decades. New data shows that the wage difference has been getting increasingly worse. The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) hosted a panel of experts to discuss the trend. “The black-white wage gap is larger now than it was in 1979,” EPI Economist Valerie Wilson said. “It’s also important to understand the context of this expansion and to understand that this expansion has not occurred in a vacuum. There has been growing economic inequality, and near stagnation of hourly wage growth for the vast majority of American workers.”
Inside Sources
September 28, 2016