On average, teacher pay in the United States is nearly 25 percent less than what other college graduates receive, according to a study by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI).
The Progressive
November 22, 2023
And these contracts are also a sign that employers could have been paying workers more all along, said Heidi Shierholz, an economist and president of the Economic Policy Institute, a union-supported think tank.
“What we’ve seen until the recent period is a real imbalance of power has allowed employers to set wages at a level below what their revenue and profits could bear,” she said. “We’re seeing some reversal of that right now.”
“I think there is a momentum aspect of this,” said EPI’s Shierholz. “The success, and the public support for these strikers, that stiffens the spine of those striking or threatening to strike. It feels like a lesson being re-learned about the power in collective action.”
CNN Business
November 22, 2023
The Economic Policy Institute estimates that the 7% rule would save the average Minnesota family with an infant $10,401 per year, freeing up 32,444 more Minnesotans to work to support their family, and generate $3.7 billion in new economic activity.
Minnesota Reformer
November 22, 2023
A study by the Economic Policy Institute found that teachers’ unions reduced stress, while anti-union laws increase teacher stress.
We Are Teachers
November 22, 2023
It’s estimated between 27.8% and 46.5% of workers in the private sector are subject to noncompete clauses in the United States, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Spectrum News NY 1
November 22, 2023
US law hamstrings organising efforts because it allows employers to punish union leaders with minimal consequences and to hold mandatory meetings where workers must listen to anti-union messages, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
Financial Times
November 22, 2023
Teachers’ pay has declined over the years compared to pay for other jobs, according to a recent report by Sylvia Allegretto, a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute.
Business Insider
November 22, 2023
Cites EPI’s Company Wage Tracker.
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
November 22, 2023
Quotes David Cooper [paywall].
Boston Globe
November 22, 2023
There’s much sympathy today among Americans for the issues unions have raised around corporate greed and the ever-increasing disparity between CEOs’ salaries and those of average workers; many people feel it in their own lives. CEOs earned 344 times the salary of the average workers in the United States in 2022, up from 21 times in 1965, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
In These Times
November 22, 2023