Vanity Fair’s Emily Jane Fox cited EPI research in a story about J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon’s recent comments against restraining CEO pay. “The comments come at a time where C.E.O.s are making 300 times more than typical workers, the Economic Policy Institute found. Since 1978, compensation for chief executives has increased by 997 percent,” Fox wrote.
Vanity Fair
September 26, 2015
In an op-ed in Fortune, EPI’s Daniel Costa made policy recommendations regarding the influx of migrants and asylum-seekers into Europe, most of whom are in dire need and deserve some form of international protection.
Fortune
September 26, 2015
CNBC cited EPI’s Family Budget Calculator in a story on the rising cost of child care. “Child care costs exceed rent for nearly five out of six families, according to the Economic Policy Institute,” wrote reporter Jane Wells.
CNBC
September 26, 2015
The Los Angeles Times’s David Lazarus quoted EPI research on CEO pay, writing, “The average chief executive pay at the 350 largest U.S. companies soared nearly 1,000% from 1978 to 2014, while the compensation of non-supervisory employees rose 11%.”
Los Angeles Times
September 26, 2015
“Despite decent employment growth in 2014, the persistent high unemployment yielded no improvements in wages and no improvement in the median incomes of working-age households or any reduction in poverty,” said Lawrence Mishel, president of the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal research group influential with Democrats in Congress. “Anyone wondering why people in this country are feeling so ornery need look no further than this report,” Mr. Mishel continued. “Wages have been broadly stagnant for a dozen years, and median household income peaked in 1999.”
The New York Times
September 17, 2015
“Anyone wondering why people in this country are feeling so ornery need look no further than this report,” said Lawrence Mishel, president of the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank in Washington. “There’s nothing normal about this economy for most households.”
Wall Street Journal
September 17, 2015
These twin trends — rising inequality and wage stagnation — pre-date the recession. The Economic Policy Institute, a liberal think-tank, estimates that median wages have grown only six percent since 1979 after accounting for inflation.
The Washington Post
September 17, 2015
Valerie Wilson interview.
NPR
September 17, 2015
The numbers may explain some of the political furor going on in the country, said Lawrence Mishel, president and CEO of the liberal Economic Policy Institute. “Anyone wondering why people in this country are feeling so ornery need look no further than this report,” Mishel said. “Wages have been broadly stagnant for a dozen years and median household income peaked in 1999.”
The Associated Press
September 17, 2015
Plus, that goal the Federal Reserve has for inflation is kind of arbitrary, says Josh Bivens, research and policy director at the Economic Policy Institute. “It’s just sort of a fudge,” he says. “It’s basically, we want a measure of quite low inflation, we’ll just say 2 percent.”
Marketplace
September 17, 2015