And New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof bemoaned the nation’s staggering wealth disparity and ever-growing inequality. “Our wealth has become so skewed that the top 1 percent possesses a greater collective worth than the entire bottom 90 percent, according to the Economic Policy Institute in Washington,” wrote Kristof.
The New York Times
October 5, 2012
Glamour magazine spoke to Elise Gould, EPI’s director of health policy research, to compare the candidates’ stances on health reform and its impact on women.
Glamour
October 5, 2012
New York Times business reporter Annie Lowrey turned to EPI to emphasize the stimulative effects of the payroll tax cut, likely to end next year.
The New York Times
October 2, 2012
Is the system stacked against the bottom fifth earners? Elise Gould, Economic Policy Institute, and Nicholas Eberstadt, American Enterprise Institute, offer insight.
CNBC
September 28, 2012
“There is a recovery. There are jobs. There is more income. There is some improvement,” said Lawrence Mishel, a labor market expert at and president of the liberal Economic Policy Institute. “But the improvement is obviously disappointing,” he added, a sentiment that many economists echoed.
The New York Times
September 28, 2012
The Economic Policy Institute has run the numbers and finds that President Obama’s budget would boost economic growth far more than Republican challenger Mitt Romney’s.
Obama’s plan would create 1.1 million jobs in 2013 and 280,000 jobs in 2014, while Romney’s budget would create 87,000 jobs in 2013 and lose 641,000 jobs in 2014, provided that his plans are deficit-financed, according to a new EPI study (pdf).
Washington Post
September 28, 2012
“Children from rich families have much greater access to higher education than children from low-income families, even when controlling for innate skills,” Economic Policy Institute researchers concluded in a recent report. “This educational barrier places profound limits on income mobility.” And in the tattered recovery from the Great Recession, wages even for college graduates have stagnated. Meritocracy is not only a solution to restoring upward mobility but also a way to fortify the bastions of privilege.
The Atlantic
September 28, 2012
In 1955, at the height of union strength, the wealthiest 10 percent received 33 percent of the nation’s personal income. In 2007, they received 50 percent, Economic Policy Institute data show.
Washington Post
September 26, 2012
“Children from rich families have much greater access to higher education than children from low-income families, even when controlling for innate skills,” Economic Policy Institute researchers concluded in a recent report. “This educational barrier places profound limits on income mobility.”
National Journal
September 26, 2012
It may be hard to imagine, but (we all hope, anyway) some day the recession and meager recovery period will come to an end. At that point, will the debates we’re having now about the economy become completely irrelevant? What will we have to fight about? Roosevelt Institute Fellow Mike Konczal and EPI’s Josh Bivens took this question on in the latest Fireside Chats episode on Bloggingheads:
New New Deal
September 25, 2012