Other experts also support this theory. A study by the progressive Economic Policy Institute’s Valerie Wilson found that the African-American unemployment rate is more responsive to improvements in the overall job market than the white unemployment rate.
The Huffington Post
October 30, 2015
As the progressive Economic Policy Institute’s Elise Gould noted, the prime-age employment-to-population ratio — a measure that includes people who have stopped looking for work and filters out elderly retirees — was still lower in August than during the low points of the last two business cycles…
The Huffington Post
October 29, 2015
Let’s start by stipulating that the gender-based wage gap in America is a real thing. The Economic Policy Institute reported in April that “at every decile, men out-earn women,” and “at the median, women’s hourly wages are only 83 percent of men’s hourly wages.” The disparity is apparently greatest at the top brackets. Even the highest-earning actress in the world, Jennifer Lawrence, piped up about the gap between her and her male co-stars in “American Hustle” on Lena Dunham’s Lenny Letter site.
San Francisco Chronicle
October 29, 2015
Four well-qualified candidates are running for those two seats. The best are a pair of Democrats: Katie Cristol, an impressively smart and committed education policy expert, and Christian Dorsey, a think-tank executive who is broadly knowledgeable about housing and community development.
Mr. Dorsey, director of external and government affairs at the Economic Policy Institute, has run a similarly constructive campaign, offering proposals to encourage home energy efficiency and to revitalize the county’s ample stock of aging retail businesses. His career path has included stints promoting literacy for indigent children, and he has extensive volunteer experience in the county. He’d make a fine board member.
The Washington Post
October 28, 2015
In 2011 a last-second aversion and resulting panic caused the country’s credit rating to be downgraded for the first time. “It’s really a silly and precarious situation to be in. I don’t think its end of the world scary but it is a real problem,” explained Josh Bivens of the Economic Policy Institute. Bivens further explained an actual default would affect everything from social security and Medicare payments to possible panic for stock & bond holders and even higher interest rates for home buyers. “It’ll look so bad the political optics for breaching the debt ceiling for sitting members of congress will be pretty disastrous and then if we did actually get past that date, I say the president should absolutely say congress: you’ve given me 2 contradictory imperatives– spend this money, don’t spend this money because of the debt ceiling. I’m just going to keep spending the money.”
ABC Seven News
October 27, 2015
The Washington-based Economic Policy Institute estimates the Chinese government doled out at least $33 billion in subsidies to its paper industry from 2002 to 2009 – the period that coincides with its stunning growth. That’s more than $4 billion a year, a number that is growing. The entire annual payroll for all of Wisconsin’s mills – including those making paper towels, tissue and cardboard – is $2.4 billion.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
October 27, 2015
Today, tipping is entrenched. According to the Economic Policy Institute, 4.3m Americans rely on the generosity of tippers to scrape a living. The idea seems like a good one. If the customer knows best, then who better to monitor and reward the performance of the servers? Without a tip on offer, waiters might be reluctant to fetch endless glasses of tap water with a smile.
The Economist
October 27, 2015
The letter expresses concern that the practice might be in violation of a state regulation that employees who report for work must be paid for at least four hours (or the number of hours in a regular shift) of work. It cites the financial and personal strains for workers without predictable schedules—from being unable to work another job or attend school, to the strains of finding childcare last minute. Further, a report by the Economic Policy Institute found that the lowest income workers face the most irregular work schedules.
The Atlantic
October 26, 2015
As a numbers guy, he knows all the statistics. Even as the nation’s productivity has improved 22 percent since 2000, median wages have risen only 1.8 percent, adjusted for inflation. Wages have actually fallen by 3 percent since the recession. Meanwhile, productivity gains are going to CEOs who earn, on average, about 300 times more than typical workers, compared with 71.2 times in 1990, according to the Economic Policy Institute. (Price’s $1.1 million salary was about 23 times the $48,000 average at Gravity.) Such trends have driven the push for a $15 minimum wage in some cities, including Seattle.
Slate
October 26, 2015
Some 4.3 million Americans classify as tipped employees, of which about 60 percent are either waiters, waitresses, or bartenders, according to David Cooper, a senior economic analyst at the Washington-based Economic Policy Institute who co-authored a 2014 report on tipped workers.
Bloomberg
October 26, 2015