According to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), childcare costs vary wildly too, depending on where a family lives. For example, here are the recent average annual costs of infant care in 10 states:
Motley Fool
June 23, 2023
According to an analysis last year by the Economic Policy Institute, the heads of the top 350 publicly traded companies earned annual incomes that were on average 399 times greater than a typical worker in 2021, up from 59-to-1 in 1989. This means that some executives’ pay is significantly greater than 399 times their employee’s pay. In fact, the heads of 22 S&P 500 companies earn at least 1,000 times more than what their typical workers take home.
Baltimore Sun
June 23, 2023
“What does it say about the greatest country on Earth, the land of the greatest opportunities, if we know what we need to do to address the problem, but only do it periodically for limited amounts of time?” Valerie Wilson of the Economic Policy Institute asked during Monday’s panel discussion.
Common Dreams
June 23, 2023
“The overall broad trend is that employers are desperate for workers who will accept bad wages and crappy conditions, like always,” said Daniel Costa, director of immigration law and policy research at Washington, D.C.-based think tank Economic Policy Institute. “With the pandemic, a drop-off in immigration and more people out of the workforce … that’s a recipe for more youth labor. And we’re seeing states rolling back child labor laws. That’s scandalous.”
Crain's Detroit Business
June 23, 2023
“The kind of churn that we’ve seen in this labor market, even though it’s down from a year ago, is higher than it [has been] historically; that is unusual,” says Elise Gould, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute. “The labor market has been incredibly resilient to the rising interest rates, the layoffs that we saw; the data is not showing that it is weakening, at least not yet.”
Fast Company
June 23, 2023
To identify the states that have introduced legislation or enacted laws to make it easier and cheaper to employ minors, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed an analysis of enacted or pending state legislation across the country by the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning labor-policy nonprofit research group. The status of pending legislation has been updated as of May 31.
24/7 Wall St.
June 23, 2023
Yesterday at the Economic Policy Institute’s Working Economics Blog, in a posting that preceded the latest news about Alito from ProPublica, Eve Tahmincioglu, Celine McNicholas and Daniel Costa wrote about why these Supreme Court justices’ close ties with business interests are a clear threat to workers’ rights:
The Stand
June 23, 2023
Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, said even as women try to educate themselves out of the pay gap, “the average wage for women with advanced degrees is still lower than the average wage for men with only a college degree.”
Marketplace
June 23, 2023
Teachercertification.com analyzed cost-of-living data from the Economic Policy Institute’s Family Budget Calculator alongside income and employment data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for elementary, middle, and high school teachers to see where the biggest gaps between living costs and income exist.
Citizen Tribune
June 23, 2023
The dissertation set the tone for four decades of research and leadership by a scholar-activist of great intellect and great conscience, who went on to chair the economics department at Howard University, helped to define the Economic Policy Institute’s work on labor issues, led the National Commission for Employment Policy and the National Wage Record Database Design Project Report for the Clinton administration, served as assistant secretary for policy in Obama’s Labor Department, and spent the last decade of his life teaching economics at Howard and working with the AFL-CIO.
Capitol Times
June 23, 2023