In the video, Pendleton cites the 2021 Economic Policy Institute report, which found that in 2020, CEOs of the top 350 U.S. firms made $24.2 million on average.
Fortune
May 6, 2022
“While much has changed” since the Haymarket bombing, arrests and frame-up of pro-worker activists in Chicago in 1886, “several core dysfunctions of that older economic system persist,” the Economic Policy Institute says.
People’s World
May 6, 2022
Barnette also has concerns about the racial wealth gap when it comes to Black and brown women. The Economic Policy Institute says a full-time Black worker earns 20% less than a full-time white worker.
Spectrum News
May 6, 2022
But college enrollment has fallen since 2020. Elise Gould with the Economic Policy Institute says the pandemic added new roadblocks for many minority and lower income potential students who may not have been able to come up with tuition.
Wisconsin Public Radio
May 6, 2022
According to the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank, a family with two children, age four and eight, is projected to pay an average of $16,659 on child care in 2022. This amount varies across the country, however. In some states, child care costs are far lower than the national average, while in others, families are paying thousands more.
24/7 Wall St.
May 6, 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
May 6, 2022
Latino college graduates earn only about 85 cents for every $1 made by their white counterparts, according to the Economic Policy Institute. (paywall).
The Chronicle of Higher Education
May 6, 2022
What we learned on these earnings calls was quickly reflected in data. Despite the rising costs of labor, energy and materials, profit margins reached 70-year highs in 2021. And according to an analysis from the Economic Policy Institute, fatter profit margins, not the rising costs of labor and materials, drove more than half of price increases in the nonfinancial corporate sector since the start of the Covid pandemic.
The New York Times
May 6, 2022
“Workers continue to quit and get hired at fast rates in today’s economy. This ‘churn’ is a positive sign of a strengthening labor market where workers can quit, search, and obtain new opportunities,” said Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute.
CNN
May 6, 2022