Richard Rothstein research associate, Economic Policy Institute; senior fellow, Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund; author “The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America,” to be published in 2017
Diane Rehm Show
December 8, 2016
Comparing such compensation with how much lower-level employees earn is likely to show a very wide gulf. A 2014 study by Alyssa Davis and Lawrence Mishel at the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal-leaning advocacy group in Washington, found that chief executive pay compared with the earnings of average workers had surged from a multiple of 20 in 1965 to almost 300 in 2013.
The New York Times
December 8, 2016
The recovery from the Great Recession has been long, slow and steady. But it has also contributed unexpectedly to an increase in involuntary part-time work, which needs new regulation to protect workers from abuse, according to a new study released this week by the Economic Policy Institute. Author Lonnie Golden finds that voluntary part-time work has remained more or less stable since 2007, around the start of the recession. But involuntary part-time work has increased by about 18 times the rate of growth of all work, and five times faster than part-time work. Currently, some 6.4 million Americans who want full-time jobs are stuck working part-time hours, according to Golden.
In These Times
December 8, 2016
As a new report from the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal think tank, highlights, too many part-time workers who want full-time jobs aren’t able to find such work. “Over six years into an economic recovery, the share of people working part time because they can only get part-time hours remains at recessionary levels,” writes the EPI’s Lonnie Golden. “The number working part time involuntarily remains 44.6 percent higher than it was in 2007.”
Pacific Standard
December 8, 2016
According to a report from the Economic Policy Institute, 6.4 million workers nationwide wanted full-time hours last year, but were involuntarily stuck working part-time. That’s up 44.6 percent since 2007 and most of those workers are minorities.
San Jose Mercury News
December 8, 2016
The current unemployment rate of 4.7 percent is touted as evidence of Obama’s successful economic policies, but progressive economist Robert Reich’s Economic Policy Institute places real unemployment at 6.5 percent when missing workers from the labor force are accounted for. Underemployment, where workers depend on unsteady work from gig operators like Uber, further deflates unemployment rates, and leaves out the ongoing struggles of the working and middle class.
New York Observer
December 8, 2016
A 2015 study from the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute found that wages in right-to-work states are 3.1 percent, or $1,558 lower, than they are in non-right-to-work states. Non-unionized workers are often affected by union pay, because non-unionized workforces are pressured to raise wages or lose workers to union shops, studies show.
The Atlantic
December 8, 2016
Still, other economists have pointed to wages as contributing to widening income inequality, with the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute arguing that wage growth is key for evening out income disparities. While the federal minimum wage remains mired at $7.25 an hour, labor activists are successfully championing ballot measures and legislation at the state and municipal levels to boost the baseline wages locally.
CBS Moneywatch
December 8, 2016
A study published this year by Carnoy and Richard Rothstein, a researcher at the Economic Policy Institute, found that much of the difference between U.S. scores and those of high-ranking nations is because the United States has a higher proportion of disadvantaged students. But the researchers found that the scores of the most disadvantaged U.S. students have been improving markedly over the years, while scores for their counterparts in many top-ranked nations have fallen precipitously.
Los Angeles Times
December 8, 2016
It’s a familiar story across America: Since the recession, people are working again, but their jobs just aren’t good enough. Often, it’s because they’re forced to work part-time, and their employer won’t give them enough hours to make ends meet. “What we hear in the field a lot is that people are hired with the assumption, if not promise, that they’ll get full-time hours. And most weeks they don’t,” said Lonnie Golden, an economics professor at Pennsylvania State University and the author of new research into part-time work published Monday by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
The Washington Post
December 7, 2016