A Yale Law School student said in a panel discussion last month that Rolling Stone contributor Sabrina Rubin Erdely had contacted her as she narrowed her focus for what would be “A Rape on Campus,” the now-retracted expose on sexual assault at the University of Virginia. “She called me a couple months before and asked if I knew anyone at Yale,” said the student, Alexandra Brodsky, at a March 12 event presented by the American Constitution Society, the American Prospect and the Economic Policy Institute.
The Washington Post
April 9, 2015
That complaint about NAFTA, whatever its merits, is informing much of the liberal opposition to the TPP. It shouldn’t: Supporters and opponents of the TPP largely agree that its direct effect on the U.S. economy will be minor. “There are going to be very few jobs that will be affected,” said Robert Scott, the director of trade and manufacturing research at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, who opposes the deal.
The New Republic
April 8, 2015
Although hiring slowed, layoffs dropped sharply, providing some evidence that businesses might have temporarily put the brakes on filling their openings because of the cold winter. “The report generally corroborates that story, the recovery hasn’t stalled, but it isn’t doing much better than simply chugging along,” said Elise Gould, chief economist with the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, in a blog post.state
The Hill
April 8, 2015
But more often than not, we’re being faced with a new issue of employment. Despite the fact the country is coming out of a recession, the Economic Policy Institute simply states people just aren’t getting jobs as easily, whether they have a college degree or not.
USA Today
April 7, 2015
According to research at the Economic Policy Institute, compensation for chief executives at publicly traded companies climbed 937 percent between 1978 and 2013, while the average worker’s compensation climbed just 10 percent.
Huffington Post
April 7, 2015
Across industries, CEO pay has risen over the past half-century in comparison with what the average worker earns. In 1965, the leaders of the top 350 publicly traded companies made an average of 20 times what the average worker did, but by 2013 that had ballooned to about 296 times, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank affiliated with labor unions.
Wall Street Journal
April 6, 2015
During these years, inflation-adjusted median wages grew an average of 1.5 percent annually compared with no gain from 1979 to 1995, says the liberal Economic Policy Institute. “The late 1990s,” it argues, “was the only period between 1979 and 2013 when wage growth was robust and broadly shared.”
The Washington Post
April 6, 2015
Ross Eisenbrey, vice president of the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, said that while there are legitimate uses for the H-1B, the visas are mainly used to drive down labor costs and boost profits. “It’s about replacing US workers who are already doing the job with someone who’ll do it more cheaply,” said Eisenbrey. “Their only purpose is cutting wages. it’s not about bringing new skills.” Eisenbrey called for legislation that would make it illegal to lay off US citizens and replace them with H-1B workers. He also proposed requiring H-1B workers be paid more than the local prevailing wage for the work they do. Eisenbrey said that if the foreign workers possess skills that are impossible to find in the US labor market, companies should be happy to pay the extra money.
The Boston Globe
April 6, 2015
But Elise Gould, a senior economist at the liberal Economic Policy Institute, said in a statement that the new report “should give us pause. … While it’s important not to put too much stock in a couple months of data — especially given the unusual amount of snow that blanketed the country in the past two months — policymakers should be wary of any signs of any slowdown from the solid job growth over the previous year.”
“There is still ample slack in the labor market,” Gould wrote. “Private sector hourly wages are up only 2.1 percent over the year. Wages need to grow faster, and for a longer time, before we can say the economy is truly working for working people.”
Politico
April 6, 2015
The weak March report is a reminder that although the economy is improving, it’s still struggling to climb back from the Great Recession. “While it’s important not to put too much stock in a couple months of data . . . policymakers should be wary of any signs of any slowdown from the solid job growth over the previous year,” Elise Gould, an economist with the liberal Economic Policy Institute, wrote in an analysis. “Other indicators make it clear that there is still ample slack in the labor market.”
McClatchy
April 6, 2015