A study from the Economic Policy Institute found that Minnesota ranks fourth in the nation for most expensive child care. The average annual cost of sending an infant to a daycare center was over $16,000 a year – and that was in 2019.
CBS Minnesota
April 15, 2022
Employers spend about $340 million a year on consultants to prevent union elections, according to a 2019 report from the Economic Policy Institute.
Marketplace
April 15, 2022
But the reduction in supply was met with increased demand as Americans started purchasing durable goods to replace the services they used prior to the pandemic, said Josh Bivens, director of research at the Economic Policy Institute.
CNET
April 15, 2022
The Economic Policy Institute reports the average cost for infant child care in the state is nearly $21,000 a year. That’s the second highest mark in the country.
7 News Boston
April 15, 2022
… someone around the middle of the pay scale, according to a recent study from the Economic Policy Institute, an independent think tank. (paywall).
Business Insider
April 15, 2022
Union presence generally benefits workers in the form of increased wages, both for those who are covered by the union as well as for those who are not. According to a report by the Economic Policy Institute, “When union density is high, nonunion workers benefit too, because unions effectively set broader standards — including higher wages — which nonunion employers must meet to attract and retain the workers they need.”
Colorado Springs Independent
April 15, 2022
According to the Economic Policy Institute, an independent think tank that researches trends and policies.
WHAS 11
April 15, 2022
Among the top 5% of earners, the average annual wage was $342,987 in 2020, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank; among the top 1%, the average income was $823,763. Meanwhile, the average income in the U.S. in 2020 was $59,900.
US News and World Report
April 15, 2022
“You don’t see any correlation between inflation and the generosity of fiscal relief. Inflation is up everywhere, regardless of whether countries were stingy or generous,” Economic Policy Institute director Josh Bivens told Salon. “You also have to think, ‘What did we get for a couple of percentage points of inflation?’ We got 6.5 million jobs created over a 13-month span – that is an incredibly fast rate of growth that just absolutely dwarfs any other recovery we’ve had before.”
Truthout
April 15, 2022