I needed to dig deeper to find out why southern Illinois is now becoming a very expensive place to live. The answer is on the Economic Policy Institute website. They have 8 different categories with data from this year, 2024. It can be summed up in two words: Health Care
KHMO radio
December 10, 2024
“They will create all sorts of weird unintended effects. No big problem currently facing US working families is really addressed,” Dr. Josh Bivens, a chief economist and senior researcher with the Economic Policy Institute, previously told The Independent.
The Independent
December 10, 2024
Working later in life is a privilege belonging largely to white-collar professionals. The well-educated, affluent and already healthy are far and away more likely to keep going past 65. Yet people in physically taxing jobs often leave the workforce before they’re financially ready to retire, according to an Economic Policy Institute report.
The Washington Post
December 10, 2024
Source: Economic Policy Institute, Department of Labor, state government sites
Business Insider
December 10, 2024
The increases will directly affect 3 million workers earning minimum wage and indirectly nudge up pay for 6.2 million higher-paid employees because of ripple effects on company pay structures, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
Restaurant Dive
December 10, 2024
The increases will directly affect 3 million workers earning minimum wage and indirectly nudge up pay for 6.2 million higher-paid employees because of ripple effects on company pay structures, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
Louisville Courier Journal
December 10, 2024
While employers demand more from entry-level applicants, the wages offered for these positions have not kept pace with inflation. A study by the Economic Policy Institute found that, adjusting for inflation, the median hourly wage for recent college graduates declined by 7.9% between 2000 and 2019.
WFLA-TV (Florida)
December 9, 2024
Numbers provided by the Social Security Administration and backed by the Economic Policy Institute, as well as the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, all confirm that the effective rate of return on Social Security’s pool of funds is in the low single digits, barely outpacing any given year’s rate of inflation.
The Motley Fool
December 9, 2024
Later in 2025, a handful of states and a couple dozen localities will also boost their minimum wages. The upshot: A total 23 states and 65 cities and counties – a record 88 jurisdictions – will lift their pay floors sometime next year. The increases will directly affect 3 million workers earning minimum wage and indirectly nudge up pay for 6.2 million higher-paid employees because of ripple effects on company pay structures, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
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Alaska, Florida, Hawaii, Missouri and Nebraska will hit the $15 benchmark by 2026 or 2027. That makes 16 states with nearly half the U.S. workforce in states with pay floors of $15 or higher within the next three years, according to NELP and EPI.
USA Today
December 9, 2024
Ultimately, the unemployment rate measures how many people are actively looking for work, and Black people have always been resilient in their job searches. Valerie Wilson of The Economic Policy Institute suggested that Black people have always been actively searching for work, but are having a harder time finding positions.
NewsOne
December 9, 2024