Workers in the bottom 10% of the income distribution saw real wages grow 9% between 2019 and 2022, a March report by the Economic Policy Institute found.
Business Insider
October 20, 2023
Teachers have historically faced lower pay than other workers, and the gap got even worse in 2022, a recent report indicated.
Sylvia Allegretto, a senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research and a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute, wrote a report that looked into how the pay of public school teachers looks compared to college graduates working elsewhere.
Business Insider
October 20, 2023
Back in 2012, Poilievre essentially called for ‘right-to-work’ legislation. He wanted to allow unionized employees to opt-out of paying union dues — measures that depressed not just union-sector wages but non-union wages in U.S. states that have adopted such laws, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Toronto Star
October 20, 2023
Interesting Facts:
1. Wage Disparity: According to a report by the Economic Policy Institute, the average CEO-to-worker pay ratio in the United States was 320-to-1 in 2019. This means that CEOs made, on average, 320 times more than the typical worker’s annual pay.
Investor Times
October 20, 2023
Data from the Economic Policy Institute shows the number of workers striking fell sharply in 2020 and 2021 but then jumped 50% last year alone.
CBS Seattle
October 20, 2023
California expects to hire more than 22,000 teachers this year.
According to the Economic Policy Institute, teachers in California make 17 percent less than other comparable college-educated workers.
ABC 30
October 20, 2023
“Wish I could upvote more. Historically with inflation about 60% is worker costs, this time it’s close to 54%* due to profit increases and only 10-15% going to workers. Complete price gouging scam.”
Buzzfeed
October 20, 2023
Teachers have historically faced lower pay than other workers, and the gap got even worse in 2022, a recent report indicated.
Sylvia Allegretto, a senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research and a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute, wrote a report that looked into how the pay of public school teachers looks compared to college graduates working elsewhere.
Business Insider
October 20, 2023
The Economic Policy Institute reports that teacher pay has suffered a sharp decline compared with the pay of other college-educated workers.
On average, teachers made 26.4% less than other similarly educated professionals in 2022—the lowest level since 1960.
KFYR TV
October 13, 2023