The cost of raising a child in the U.S. varies dramatically according to where you live. Using data from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), we compared the average cost of child care for a 4-year-old across states.
Unsurprisingly, child care costs are most expensive in states where the cost of living is higher. Massachusetts and Connecticut rank as the states with the highest child care costs, while expenses are more affordable in the Southern states of Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas.
MarketWatch
August 17, 2023
These credentials may be needed as a temporary fix because according to the Economic Policy Institute, by 2024, new teachers will only fulfill one third of the national demand for teachers.
WCTI News 12
August 17, 2023
The survey of gig workers from the Economic Policy Institute found that about 14% of gig workers made less than the federal minimum wage, and 29% earned less than their state’s minimum wage. The survey was conducted in 2020, a banner year for gig workers due to demand for delivery early in the pandemic.
Business Insider
August 17, 2023
In California, workers lose roughly $2 billion annually from employers who aren’t paying minimum wage, and that’s just one form of wage theft, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Many of those victimized, often lower-income immigrants and women, will never file an official complaint with the state agency tasked with investigating wage theft because they fear retaliation.
KQED
August 17, 2023
According to a study by the Economic Policy Institute, nearly 90 percent of companies conduct captive audience meetings when confronted with a unionization campaign — and the data shows there’s a direct correlation between the meetings and whether the union prevails in their election.
Truthout
August 17, 2023
A recent analysis from the nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute shows that teachers make less than other college graduates in weekly pay and total salary — and this gap is growing. Until we as a nation get serious about paying teachers as the essential workers they are, it will remain a struggle to recruit and retain high-quality educators.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
August 17, 2023
The problems driving teachers out of the classrooms, however, aren’t all about pay and they’re not exclusive to Virginia. A study published in December by the Economic Policy Institute found that salary was tied for fourth among reasons teachers bailed. The top reason given (by 43%) of the 958 departing K-12 public school teachers EPI surveyed: “The stress and disappointments of teaching weren’t worth it.” Twenty-four percent cited insufficient pay, just behind “I did not get enough support from my school district” (29%).
Virginia Mercury
August 17, 2023
Josh Bivens, research director at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, said his “gut” tells him Biden may eventually benefit from the economy.
He predicted that with 3 to 4 percent inflation or lower and consistent low unemployment for another year could lead to higher ratings for Biden. Unemployment currently sits at just 3.6 percent.
“The ratchet-up of inflation in 2021 and early 2022 very much unsettled people, and they are only now really recognizing that the ratchet has started to reverse pretty decisively,” Bivens said.
The Hill
August 17, 2023
Josh Bivens at the Economic Policy Institute said that after lots of churn in the pandemic, company workforces are stabilizing.
“It takes time to take all those new workers you’ve hired and get them working in a way that really adds to the productivity of a firm,” he said.
Also, with workers hard to find, companies are investing in labor-saving technology, said Paul Ashworth — like AI and machine-learning.
“It’s possible that we’re seeing the beginnings of a new productivity boom like we saw in the 1990s and early 2000s, when desktop computers and the internet were integrated into the workplace,” he said.
Marketplace
August 17, 2023
In a wide-ranging conversation about the strikes and the recent spotlight on C-suite pay in Hollywood, Robert Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor and co-founder of Inequality Media and the Economic Policy Institute, explained how the rise of monopolies and relative disappearance of unions has created market conditions primed to enhance economic disparity.
The Hollywood Reporter
August 17, 2023