Lucky for him, Becerra is said to be a friend of ex-Sen. Ken Salazar (D-Colo.), who is running Clinton’s transition effort. He also has backing from D.C.’s progressive wonks, like Economic Policy Institute President Larry Mishel. “I’m a huge fan … But I asked him to be on our board and he refused so I’m mad,” Mishel joked.
Washington Post
October 5, 2016
“It’s really entered the debate in terms of economics,” says Elise Gould, senior economist at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute in Washington. “There’s much more awareness than a decade ago, even though [income inequality] has been growing for three decades.” Additionally, she says, those movements have helped foment political action around what have been traditionally viewed as personal or family matters, like the high cost of childcare and untenable work schedules. “Families with children have been struggling for years,” Ms. Gould says. “It’s not a new problem, but they think ‘Oh, that’s just my problem.’ Public discourse now tells them it’s not just them, this affects millions of people. So that looks different, and it starts to seem ripe for a government solution.”… Gould argues there are still a lot of problems that need solving, and that even in the face of such reforms, many workers are falling behind. “The racial wage gap has honestly gotten worse,” she says. According to EPI’s research, the pay disparity between blacks and whites is the largest since 1979. “The gender gap is improving, but a lot of that is because men’s growth has been low.”
The Christian Science Monitor
October 5, 2016
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