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• Mancos school district provides information on area mill levies and student voting

  Cordrey cited the Economic Policy Institute, which recently provided a report saying that teachers in Colorado earn 35.9% less than other workers with college degrees. This is reportedly the largest gap in the United States.

  The Journal (Colorado) November 4, 2024
• Black Tax Traps For Black Folks to Avoid This Holiday Season

  History tells us Black people make 24.4 percent less than white people, according to the Economic Policy Institute. But it all boils down to a real need for policy change. Who you vote for matters!

  The Root November 4, 2024
• October jobs take a hit from hurricanes, strike

  It’s the last jobs report to be released before Election Day Tuesday. Economists say this month’s report is less informative than usual jobs reports due to noise caused by the storms and strike.

  “These jobs will likely rebound quickly and add to job growth numbers in coming months,” Economic Policy Institute chief economist Josh Bivens wrote in a research note. 

  CBS Moneywatch November 4, 2024
• Trump’s Plan to Deport Millions of Immigrants Would Be a Nightmare for Workers and the Economy

  While the U.S. immigration system is far from optimal and urgently needs reforms, here are two facts that are not controversial among economists: 1) Immigration expands the U.S. economy. And 2) the economy grows without hurting the wages of U.S.-born workers.

  In These Times November 4, 2024
• Starbucks return-to-office is another corporate double standard
  According to the Economic Policy Institute, the average CEO-to-worker pay ratio at the 350 largest publicly owned US companies was about 344-to-one in 2022. 
  Bloomberg November 4, 2024
• The best protection from Trump’s inflationary agenda: Just be filthy rich

  Nearly 70% of economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal said prices would rise faster under Trump than under Harris, and 23 Nobel Prize winners endorsed Harris’ proposals over Trump’s “counterproductive” economic agenda.

  “I think it really would feel like a return to 2021 levels of inflation, in terms of how quickly it seems to come from out of the blue,” Josh Bivens, chief economist with the nonprofit EPI Action, told me.

  But it won’t be the same flavor of profit-driven inflation we’ve seen over the past three years.

  Pandemic-era inflation, with its many supply chain bottlenecks, gave some corporations monopoly-like power over parts of the economy when their competitors couldn’t get more output out the door, Bivens said. “This one will be a more broad-based, chaotic, supply-side push-up of prices.”

  CNN Business November 4, 2024
• Harris and Trump both say they’ll stop price gouging—but can either actually do it?

  And a September report by the Economic Policy Institute found that a spike in profits explains well over 40% of the rise in prices between the end of 2019 and mid-2022

  Fast Company November 4, 2024
• In Minnesota, the Mayo Clinic Sometimes Called the Shots With Gov. Tim Walz

  The hospital’s significant market share and high prices have contributed to a higher cost of living for families without employer-funded insurance in the Rochester area than in the Twin Cities, even though housing, food and other necessities are cheaper, according to the nonprofit economic think tank Economic Policy Institute’s family budget calculator.

  ProPublica November 4, 2024
• Choose wisely with your vote

  Another example is comparing which administrations where more successful in increasing the gross domestic product and wages and reducing the rate of unemployment according to many analysts and the Economic Policy Institute. As reported in the New York Times in February 2021: “Since 1933, the economy has grown at an annual average rate 4.6 % under Democratic presidents and 2.4 % under Republicans. The average income of Americans would be more than double its current level if the economy had somehow grown at the Democratic rate for all of the past nine decades.”

  Smoky Mountain News November 4, 2024
• Lipps stresses safety as Guilderland buses travel over a million miles each school year

  According to research by the Economic Policy Institute, reported by the National Education Association, school bus driver employment continues to be far below pre-pandemic levels. There were approximately 192,400 bus drivers working in K–12 schools in September 2023, down about 15 percent from September 2019.

  Altamont Enterprise November 4, 2024