A recent report by Josh Bivens and Jori Kandra of the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) documents the wide wage gap. In 2022, they report, the top executives of the 350 largest U.S. companies received 344 times the pay of the typical worker; 87% of that top pay was received as a bonus, usually based on stock price. That compares to just 15 times the pay of the typical worker in 1965. They argue that this difference is not justified by an increase in the complexity of the top manager’s job.
Boston Business Journal
December 15, 2023
Writing for the Economic Policy Institute in 2020, for instance, education economist Emma García summarized the data: “When black students have the opportunity to attend schools with lower concentrations of poverty and larger shares of white students they perform better, on average, on standardized tests.”
Minnesota Reformer
December 15, 2023
Several factors contribute to the higher jobless rates among black Americans compared to whites. Racism and single-adult households, where one person must balance childcare and full-time employment, are among the primary reasons, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
24/7 Wall St.
December 15, 2023
Still, the report said Colorado educators make about 37 percent less compared to other professionals with the same amount of education, citing research by the Economic Policy Institute.
Colorado Public Radio
December 15, 2023
A variety of negative responses followed the decision, including proposals for proxies for and refinements of race-conscious admissions. Some commentators argued that colleges should simply refuse to comply. Richard Rothstein, a fellow at the Economic Policy Institute, wrote in the Atlantic, “University presidents should have no less courage. They should continue to implement race-specific affirmative action, in defiance of the Supreme Court.”
The American Conservative
December 15, 2023
A 2022 report from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a research and policy organization in Washington, D.C., that looks at the impact on workers of economic trends and policies, listed delivery drivers as one of 11 occupations with workers “particularly vulnerable to illegal misclassification.”
“We’re literally talking about generations of policymaking and struggle that workers have engaged in to set some basic expectations and standards in our history, and also the contemporary expectation that most U.S. residents have about some basic, very minimal floors that we want to set for standards in our labor market,” said Jennifer Sherer, director of the State Worker Power Initiative at EPI.
Wisconsin Examiner
December 15, 2023
“We’re still seeing the effects — and I think some of it’s still invisible — of the COVID relief wrap-up,” he said.
Those programs kept millions of Americans out of poverty before they were ended, according to analysis from the Economic Policy Institute, a-left-leaning think tank.
WMRA Public Radio
December 15, 2023
Inflation can have many roots. Typically, it’s caused by “a macroeconomic excess of spending over the economy’s relative ability to produce goods and services,” said Josh Bivens, the director of research at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank based in Washington D.C.
That means more people are wanting items and services than there is adequate supply, leading producers to raise prices.
USA Today
December 15, 2023
“The household survey confirms the strength exhibited by the payroll survey,” the Economic Policy Institute’s Elise Gould wrote Friday. “Here, we can look under the hood of the labor market data and explore differences by gender, age, and race/ethnicity. As the unemployment rate dropped, the prime-age employment rate ticked up to 80.7%.”
CNN Business
December 15, 2023
The measure to loosen child labor laws is part of a trend in certain states around the country. Florida is now the 16th state to introduce legislation rolling back child labor protections in the past two years and the 13th to do so this year, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank in Washington, D.C.
Florida Phoenix
December 15, 2023