At those levels, CEOs last year were paid 303 times what workers in their industries earned, compared with a ratio of 59 times in 1989, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington-based nonprofit.
Reuters
December 11, 2015
Another report published this week by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute says the freelance economy is far smaller — and that it actually shrank over the last year, from 19.6 million independent contractors to 18.1 million.
The Huffington Post
December 11, 2015
The first is student loan debt, which continues to be a massive burden to recent college graduates. The second is wage stagnation. In analysis by the Economic Policy Institute, for example, wages for young college graduates have been dropping since the year 2000. The trend is more widespread and older than that, but this number certainly might make a new graduate pessimistic.
The Washington Post
December 11, 2015
The Economic Policy Institute in Washington said in a December report that the decline of American manufacturing over the past 15 years was due to currency manipulation and unfair trade, including China’s “huge investments in ‘leading and pillar’ industries”.
Reuters
December 11, 2015
Imports from China by Walmart have eliminated or displaced more than 400,000 jobs, according to a estimate from the Economic Policy Institute.
CBS News
December 10, 2015
The Economic Policy Institute recently published a study estimating how many jobs Walmart has effectively eliminated or displaced as a result of its contribution to the U.S. trade deficit with China. The study states that between 2001 and 2013, the inflated deficit eliminated or displaced 3.2 million U.S. jobs. As the world’s largest retailer, it seems to follow that U.S.-based Walmart would be a key contributor to the climbing deficit and subsequent job losses. The EPI estimates that the retailer’s Chinese imports account for 15.3% of trade deficit growth in that time period.
Fortune
December 10, 2015
The flood of Chinese imports purchased by Walmart shoppers has cost the U.S. economy about 400,000 jobs since 2001, according to a liberal think tank. The Economic Policy Institute, which has long been a critic of U.S. trade policies with China, saysWalmart (WMT) has been a major factor in the growing trade gap with China. It estimates that Walmart sold at least $49 billion worth of Chinese-made goods between 2001 and 2013, and said that its estimate of 400,000 jobs lost is conservative.
CNN Money
December 10, 2015
Incomes for teachers vary sharply depending on where they work, and Pew’s data suggest that the profession still has more members of the upper and middle tier than the employed population as a whole. Still, belt-tightening among many in the US has left a shortage of 375,000 public school teachers, according to estimates by The Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think-tank.
Financial Times
December 10, 2015
One of the economic themes of the last few decades has been the hollowing out of the American manufacturing sector. But how has that happened, and how is the world’s largest retailer playing a part? A new study from the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute takes a look at what it calls “the Walmart effect,” by which it means the giant retailer’s growing trade deficit with China. With Walmart importing more cheap goods from China than it exports to that country, the retailer’s actions may be implicated in an estimated loss of at least 400,000 U.S. jobs from 2001 to 2013, the study finds.
CBS Moneywatch
December 10, 2015