The nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute released a study in 2012 to this point, which found that in 2009 the U.S. had the highest child poverty rate among what the institute considered comparable countries — mostly in Europe, along with Japan, Canada, and Australia.
Arizona Republic
November 25, 2015
About 8.7 million jobs disappeared during the last recession. American men have encountered less trouble getting back to work, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Between February 2010 and June 2014, they gained 5.5 million jobs, while women gained 3.6 million.
The Washington Post
November 23, 2015
The result is continued concern that management compensation is not adequately aligned with ownership interests and that executives are extracting excessive compensation with the tacit support of captive boards of directors. These concerns are magnified by the extraordinary rise in executive compensation in the U.S. since the 1980s. In one study by the Economic Policy Institute, CEO compensation rose 937% between 1978 and 2013, compared to an average worker’s gain of 10% or the S&P500 index which rose roughly by half, or 422%. Clearly, bankruptcy pre-filing disclosure is inadequate.
Wall Street Journal
November 23, 2015
Labaton’s group is advocating for a national policy solution to the problem. And it’s a doozy of a problem. It’s more expensive to pay for a year of day care for an infant than to pay for a year of tuition at public colleges in most U.S. states, according to an analysis of child care costs by the progressive Economic Policy Institute, Daniel Marans wrote about earlier this year.
The Huffington Post
November 23, 2015
The bottom-up lift has been a long time coming. You don’t have to be Karl Marx to get worked up over the wage chasm. According to the Economic Policy Institute, worker pay increased 10 percent in the past 35 years – while the average CEO pocketed 937 percent more. Minimum-wage workers have less buying power today than 45 years ago. The rich got richer, while the middle class paddled in place and the bottom of the pool deepened.
Buffalo News
November 23, 2015
Left-leaning economists, however, dismissed the American Action Forum report, saying it was based on poor methodology and using preliminary data that could be revised significantly in the coming months. “Everything that they’re documenting could be statistical noise,” said David Cooper, an analyst at the liberal Economic Policy Institute.
The Atlantic
November 20, 2015
How might the gap be closed sooner than 2133? The Economic Policy Institute recently released a “Women’s Economic Agenda,” which includes 12 recommendations that would help align men’s and women’s pay. The agenda is mindful of the fact that low-wage jobs are held disproportionately by women, and so prescribes many of the things that are often proposed to support lower-paid workers in general: raising the minimum wage, strengthening unions, and instating family- and sick-leave policies. Hopefully, some of these policies will work and women won’t have to wait more than 100 years until equal pay becomes a reality.
The Atlantic
November 20, 2015
This week the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) reported that the gender pay gap is still going strong. In the U.S., women are taking home only 82.9 cents for every dollar earned by men, and the discrepancy is worse for minorities and for those at the high end of the pay scale.
Forbes
November 20, 2015
But critics also argue that large trade deals such as the North American Free Trade Agreement hurt the U.S. economy by sending jobs outside its borders where labor is cheaper. “I would urge your Congressman to look very closely at the entire deal and, in particular, to see how it’s going to affect jobs and wages,” said Robert Scott, director of trade and manufacturing policy research with the Economic Policy institute, a Washington D.C.-based think tank. One of Scott’s studies that compared jobs gained to jobs lost calculated that the North American Free Trade Agreement displaced nearly 700,000 U.S. workers, and similar studies have tallied even greater figures. “I think what NAFTA has primarily done is hurt workers in the United States,” he said.
NPR
November 20, 2015
For each city, population figures are 2014 estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, and housing prices are based on calculations from real estate website Zillow. Cost of living was calculated by CareerTrends, using 2013 data from the Economic Policy Institute. The cost of living index is based on a 100 point scale, with 100 representing the national average. Numbers under 100 mean average cost of living expenses are lower than the national average.
U.S. News & World Report
November 20, 2015