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• Five Things You Can Do to Make America a Better Place Tomorrow (No Matter Who Wins)

  The management class and their armies of lobbyists on Capitol Hill have an insatiable drive to impoverish not only their own low-level employees but all low-level employees in their sectors. The solution is to support NGOs like American Compass and the Economic Policy Institute—organizations that tackle issues of pay, benefits, and affordability from a no-nonsense, nonideological perspective.

  Tablet Mag November 4, 2024
• Trump’s Inaction on Teamsters’ Pensions Fuels Frustration Over Failure to Endorse Harris

  Under Trump, the NLRB acted on all 10 items in a 2017 corporate wishlist from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, according to a report by the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington-based think tank. Many of the decisions heralded by the Teamsters last October, in fact, represented reversals of Trump-era rules.

  Capital & Main November 4, 2024
• Abortion, the economy and Gaza: What’s driving Gen Z to the polls

  The Economic Policy Institute found that, as of March, 65% of young college graduates — defined as workers between 21 to 24 years old — are employed.

  Yahoo News November 4, 2024
• Sheboygan Democrat makes case in previously gerrymandered district

  The Economic Policy Institute found that a typical family in Wisconsin would have to spend a third of its income on child care for an infant and a 4-year-old. Based on 2016 data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the Department of Health and Human Services deemed child care affordable if it costs up to 7% of a family’s income.

  Wisconsin Watch November 4, 2024
• How does the Ohio manufacturing sector view this year’s election?

  An Economic Policy Institute report from 2022 argued wages for non-college educated workers tend to be substantially lower in service industry jobs and the impact has been particularly pronounced for workers of color.

  People's Defender November 4, 2024
• Kamala Harris, Candidate of Economic Change, Breaks With Old Democratic Thinking

  In the 1980s, when the Economic Policy Institute was founded as a think tank for working people, EPI’s early research began to demonstrate that the income and wealth of the richest Americans was pulling away from middle-class and working Americans. At first establishment economists denied the trend—or they said it was only temporary. Today everyone—left, right and center— acknowledges the problem, and the debate is about what to do about it—or about whether we can or should do anything about it. 

  Common Dreams November 4, 2024
• Kamala Harris Is Not Doing Well With Union Voters

  But as the Economic Policy Institute pointed out, “Union workers had more job security during the pandemic . . . [and] industries with lower unionization rates tended to experience greater job loss during the pandemic.” So the wage experience of union members may be different from that of nonunion workers.

  Jacobin November 4, 2024
• Jobless rate ticks higher in October for white Americans, bucking the broader trend

  To Heidi Shierholz, president of the Economic Policy Institute, this jump indicates the distortion and volatility in month-to-month data, especially considering that the jobless rate for Black men dropped to 5.1% in September from 5.9% in August.

  “I think that the big increase that we saw in Black male unemployment in October was really just renormalizing after the big, unusual drop in September,” she told CNBC.

  Shierholz added that October’s unemployment numbers were also unusually affected by the hurricanes and labor strikes, making it even more difficult to compare these data points.

  “You never want to focus on one month’s data, and that is more true than ever right now because this month’s data was so distorted by these unusual temporary factors,” she said.

  CNBC November 4, 2024
• Are we living in two different Americas?

  These economic achievements are echoed in a recent report by the Economic Policy Institute that looked at 10 common economic measures (like gross domestic product, wages, private job growth, wealth inequality) since 1949. Despite a frequent Republican claim, the research found that U.S. economic performance is better with Democratic presidents/administrations. 

  Vicksburg Post November 4, 2024
• Final report before presidential election shows just 12,000 jobs added after hurricanes, strikes

  Manufacturing jobs fell by 46,000 last month, with the vast majority of these numbers reflecting a massive strike. Job growth was projected to fall by at least 50,000 jobs or more in October in most estimates, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning economic think tank. The number of hours worked was also expected to change, but average weekly hours remained the same.

  States Newsroom November 4, 2024