Before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Josh Bivens, research director at the Economic Policy Institute, believed wages would get ahead of inflation in 2022. “I thought inflation was going to relent quite a bit through the year,” he said. “That’s probably been delayed pretty considerably.”
Marketplace
March 11, 2022
Heidi Sheirholz, who leads the liberal Economic Policy Institute, said the legislation is “a core reason we’re in such an incredibly strong recovery right now.”
Associated Press
March 11, 2022
For example, according to a 2017 Economic Policy Institute study … (paywall)
Law360
March 11, 2022
In the 2017-18 school year, researchers estimated a shortage of about 110,000 teachers in U.S. schools, according an article published in the Economic Policy Institute. EPI describes itself as a non-profit, nonpartisan think tank that focuses on needs of low and middle income workers in economic policy discussions.
Billings Gazette
March 11, 2022
A 2020 Economic Policy Institute study found that Black workers made up about one in six of all “frontline industry workers,” accounting for 17% of the frontline workforce across all frontline industry categories.
Black Voice News
March 11, 2022
Economist Elise Gould at the Economic Policy Institute, one of our best labor market analysts, tells us “private sector employment is now only 1% away from pre-pandemic levels.” But she notes we still are “facing a 3.7 million job shortfall” once population growth is taken into account, with Black unemployment double that of whites. So we shouldn’t be slowing the economy yet.
Forbes
March 11, 2022
“We added 678,000 jobs in February, for a total of 7.9 million jobs added since the end of 2020. It’s mindbogglingly fast and sustained growth—well over half a million jobs added per month on average for more than a year.” – Heidi Shierholz of the Economic Policy Institute.
The Fiscal Times
March 11, 2022
“The white unemployment rate is now lower than the Black unemployment rate has ever been,” said Elise Gould, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute.
CNBC
March 11, 2022
And while the economy is recovering fast, Economic Policy Institute’s senior economist Elise Gould and President Heidi Shierholz explain in a CNN op-ed that we need to ensure it works for everyone.
AFL-CIO
March 11, 2022
Today, women account for 88.6 percent of home health care workers and 94 percent of child care workers, according to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute, with women of color and immigrant women making up disproportionate shares of both workforces. Wages and job quality remain low, and benefits are scarce. EPI reports that home health care workers and child care workers are far less likely to have employer-sponsored health insurance or retirement coverage than the workforce as a whole.
Washington Center for Equitable Growth
March 11, 2022