This country has a long history of neighborhood segregation, which led to widespread economic and housing discrimination. Inequality in environment, health, and education came with it. More integration in neighborhoods doesn’t mean an end to discrimination, though. Richard Rothstein of the Economic Policy Institute adds a major caveat to this data: “In 1940, the average black lived in a neighborhood that was 40 percent white. In 1950, it fell to 35 percent—where it remains today. This average, of course, aggregates data from many neighborhoods where blacks have virtually no exposure to whites, and others where integration is advanced. Nonetheless, by this measure there has been no progress in reducing segregation for the last 60 years.”
National Journal
June 15, 2015
In a New York Times Op-Ed article, Lawrence Mishel, the president of the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, called the decline of union bargaining power in the United States “the single largest factor suppressing wage growth for middle-wage workers over the last few decades.”
The New York Times Magazine
June 12, 2015
Ali Velshi discusses the skilled worker visa program with Ron Hira of the Economic Policy Institute.
Al Jazeera America
June 12, 2015
The U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement, in force since 2012, has already cost the U.S. economy 75,000 jobs, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
The Hill
June 12, 2015
The service-sector jobs that replaced those lost manufacturing jobs have been low-paying and are not family-sustaining. The 2.7 million workers displaced by our trade deficit with China lost $13,505 per worker in wages in 2011 alone, according to Washington’s Economic Policy Institute.
Newark Star Ledger
June 12, 2015
Similarly, an April 2015 joint statement from the National Employment Law Project and the Economic Policy Institute praised Fight for $15 before calling for a $12-an-hour minimum wage.
VOX
June 12, 2015
These practices tallied up to nearly $1 billion in 2012, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. The Walmart lawsuit is unusual because it frames generally well-compensated employees as victims of the trend. It also sheds light on the labor practices of the trucking industry.
International Business Times
June 12, 2015
Researchers at private consulting firm Industrial Economics and the University of Maryland, for instance, recently predicted that the plan would add more than a quarter of a million jobs to the U.S. economy by 2040. This week, the non-partisan Economic Policy Institute said the Clean Power Plan would create nearly 100,000 more jobs than are lost.
Think Progress
June 12, 2015
The paper, written by Leila Morsy and Richard Rothstein of the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, focuses on five factors that new research suggests hinder the achievement of poor children: parenting practices in low-income households, single parenthood, irregular work schedules of parents in low-wage jobs, poor access to health care and exposure to lead.
The Washington Post
June 11, 2015
Ross Eisenbrey, the vice president of the Economic Policy Institute, says when the rule was adjusted in 1975 more than 60% of salaried employees were eligible for overtime. According to his most recent calculation, he says, less than 10% of workers are currently eligible. The institute previously found only about 11% of workers were eligible in 2013. “Today, about 50% of children are raised in a family where both parents are working,” Eisenbrey says. “Having them work overtime is a particular strain on children and families with children. We need this rule more than ever.”
Time Magazine
June 11, 2015