However, according to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), the economic fate of Black women in America provides compelling evidence of the enduring impact of gender and race discrimination on workers and families.
Researchers at the EPI found that employer practices and government policies have historically disadvantaged Black women compared to white women and men, leading to unfavorable labor market positions.
The Washington Informer
June 16, 2023
Childcare advocates argue the money is needed to help workers such as nurses, first-responders, and childcare workers themselves who are struggling to pay childcare costs that, in recent years, has averaged about $10,000 annually in Ohio, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
Cleveland.com
June 16, 2023
According to an analysis published by the Economic Policy Institute, corporate profits replaced unit labor costs as the largest contributor to unit price growth in the nonfinancial corporate sector from the second quarter of 2020 to the fourth quarter of 2021, when compared with historical averages from 1979-2019.
Yahoo Finance
June 16, 2023
The amended proposal from Rep. Ben Collings, D-Portland, would boost the minimum wage from the current mark of $13.80 to $15 starting in 2024 with annual cost-of-living increase. The current mark was set in a 2016 referendum that also includes indexing, and Maine’s minimum wage is eighth-highest among states, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Bangor Daily News
June 16, 2023
Bernstein, who holds a Ph.D. in social welfare from Columbia University, was a musician and social worker in New York City before moving to Washington in the early 1990s to join the Economic Policy Institute. He was later tapped to be the deputy chief economist at the Labor Department under former Secretary Robert Reich during former President Bill Clinton’s second term.
Politico
June 16, 2023
As Josh Bivens, chief economist at the Economic Policy Institute, pointed out last year, wage increases didn’t keep pace with inflation. His analysis determined that the rise of inflation had “not been driven” by tight labor markets pushing up wages.
News Nation Now
June 16, 2023
In 2015, the Economic Policy Institute found that wages in right-to-work states were 3.1% lower than in states without the laws (after accounting for cost of living).
Capital & Main
June 16, 2023
“I would not be an economist today without Bill Spriggs,” said Valerie Wilson, director of the Program on Race, Ethnicity and the Economy at the Economic Policy Institute.
Dr. Wilson was taking a break from graduate school and considering leaving the field altogether when one of her professors recommended her for a job working for Dr. Spriggs at the National Urban League. He helped restore her passion for economics by showing her an approach to the work that was less theoretical and more focused on the real world, she said. After two years at the Urban League, she told Dr. Spriggs that she was going back to graduate school.
His response: “We need you in the profession.”
New York Times
June 16, 2023
Paywall. Features interview with Daniel Costa
Law360
June 16, 2023