Despite being among the most educated professions—some states even require master’s degrees—teachers earn just three-quarters as much as comparable college graduates, according to research published by the Economic Policy Institute in 2022.
Stacker
October 12, 2023
Jennifer Sherer, director of the state worker power initiative for the Economic Policy Institute, said by looking at trends, workers across the country are increasingly looking to their right to organize and collectively bargain as a vehicle to address what she called “really deep inequalities in our economy.”
“The initiative and the discussion underway in a number of states about making sure every worker has full access to those rights is the origin of the initiative you are seeing in Arizona,” Sherer explained.
Public News Service
October 12, 2023
Data from the Economic Policy Institute shows that the families of childcare workers are twice as likely to live in poverty (11.8%) compared to others.
Business Insider
October 12, 2023
According to the Economic Policy Institute, autoworker wages have fallen 19.3% since 2008 alone — due in large part to past concessions made by the UAW.
Detroit Free Press
October 11, 2023
In 2022, Dollar General became the first major retailer deemed a “severe violator” of federal workplace safety law, and has failed hundreds of government inspections. In addition to limited access to sick leave, most Dollar General employees make less than $12 an hour, and close to 1 in 4 make less than $10, according to an Economic Policy Institute study from 2021.
Bloomberg
October 11, 2023
Lack of standards has real ramifications. According to the Economic Policy Institute, domestic workers are three times as likely to live in poverty than other workers–typical wages for a domestic worker were $12.02/hour; for a non-domestic worker, $19.97. And 39 percent of nannies live twice below the poverty level; for non-domestic workers, the twice-poverty rate is 17 percent.
Marie Claire
October 6, 2023
The bill could worsen graduation rates and hurt lower-income families, experts said, and could also be a way to replace some immigrant labor as Florida and other GOP-led states continue to crack down on undocumented workers.
“Are we willing to return to a world where we accept that children of the poorest families are working more than full-time jobs under hazardous conditions?” said Jennifer Sherer, director of the Economic Analysis and Research Network at the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute.
Orlando Sentinel
October 6, 2023
Don’t worry — it’s still plenty to sustain a growing economy, said Elise Gould at the Economic Policy Institute.
“When we see job growth in excess of around 100,000, that means that not only are we keeping up with population growth, we’re pulling people in off the sidelines,” Gould said.
Gould sees a job market returning pretty close to pre-pandemic normal.
“The share of workers between 25 and 54 with a job is now at or higher than before, particularly for women. We have very low Black unemployment. So there are many metrics that look very much like 2019 — and even better.”
Marketplace
October 6, 2023
The “teacher pay penalty” — the gap between the wages of teachers and similarly educated professionals — hit a record high of 26.4% in 2022, according to an Economic Policy Institute report released Friday, as K-12 Dive reported.
EdSource
October 6, 2023
(That’s despite an increase in union representation; according to the Economic Policy Institute, in 2022, more than 16 million workers in the U.S. were represented by a union, an increase of 200,000 from 2021. While more jobs were unionized, nonunion jobs have been added to the economy at a faster rate.)
The Detroit Metro Times
October 6, 2023