Every parent knows that child care is expensive, and getting more so. According to a report from the Economic Policy Institute, annual infant care in 33 states now costs more than a year’s tuition at a public university. For minimum-wage workers nationally, child care costs can easily eat up over half of their paychecks.
The New York Times
June 27, 2016
Boston Magazine
June 24, 2016
The Washington Post also covered EPI’s new inequality study, noting that Jackson Hole, Wyoming, has the biggest gap between the highest- and lowest-income residents.
The Washington Post
June 24, 2016
Teresa Tritch of the New York Times wrote that EPI’s recent study on inequality in the states “shows that rising inequality is entrenched. Recessions in recent decades have temporarily slowed income growth among the top 1 percent, but they have not altered the basic pattern in which the rich have gotten much richer while nearly everyone else has seen income stagnate or decline.”
The New York Times
June 24, 2016
In a column on the progressive agenda, the New York Times reported that EPI has “focused more on what is sometimes called `predistribution,’ wages and the conditions of work. They would reduce the gains at the top — such as by putting some meaningful constraints on executive pay — but also make sure that workers got a greater share of the profits, not only in the form of money, but also time, flexibility and predictable scheduling. If the initial distribution of benefits and money is badly skewed, it will be hard to use tax and transfer policies alone to redistribute it.”
The New York Times
June 17, 2016
Baltimore Sun
June 17, 2016
Marketplace
June 17, 2016
The Boston Globe
June 17, 2016