“While I think that the White House is right that their best move is to appoint good people and then have faith in their judgement, I don’t agree with Powell’s recent rate hikes, nor the reasoning behind them,” said Josh Bivens, research director at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank.
The Hill
March 31, 2023
Terri Gerstein is a fellow at the Center for Labor and a Just Economy at Harvard Law School and the Economic Policy Institute. She spent more than 17 years enforcing labor laws in New York State, working in the state attorney general’s office and as a deputy labor commissioner.
New York Times
March 31, 2023
Under Hochul’s proposal, the minimum wage would rise modestly to $16.40 downstate by 2026. The governor’s plan ties the minimum wage to the rate of inflation but caps the increase at 3% in any one year. For the average minimum wage-earning New Yorker working full time, that’s an extra $670 a year starting in 2026, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank based in Washington, D.C.
Gothamist
March 31, 2023
Providers must balance running their business with what parents can afford to pay. The average annual cost of infant care in California is $1,412 a month, according to a 2020 estimate from the Economic Policy Institute. Over a year that’s more than in-state tuition at a 4-year college.
LAist
March 31, 2023
According to the Economic Policy Institute, which advocates for fair pay for low- and middle-income workers, Texas public school teachers get paid 21.5% less than college graduates in other professions.
Newsbreak
March 31, 2023
The average cost of infant care in Nevada is $951 a month, 8.7% less than the average rent, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Care for a 4-year-old is $754 a month.
Nevada Current
March 31, 2023
Yet, despite the vital role public schools play in the education of future generations of Americans, the national public school system faces a myriad of problems in “equity, adequacy, effort, and sufficiency,” according to the Economic Policy Institute. Despite these issues, however, public school enrollment has, on average, increased from figures 10 years ago.
LI Herald
March 31, 2023
Seventeen years ago, Yale University political scientist Jacob Hacker outlined a proposal he’d come up with for an agenda that the Economic Policy Institute was publishing for the next president—assuming that president was a Democrat. Hacker (who is now a Prospect board member) was proposing that the government create a “public option” for health insurance, under which Americans not yet eligible for Medicare could purchase a health insurance plan, equivalent to that provided by Medicare, from the government. As public-option plans didn’t have to deliver profits such as those that enriched major investors in private plans, they would be cheaper than their private competitors. And, by the logic of the market, they’d compel those private competitors to bring down their prices if they wanted to stay in business.
American Prospect
March 31, 2023
Contrary to the name, right-to-work laws make it “harder for workers’ organizations to sustain themselves financially” and “aim to undermine unions’ bargaining strength,” according to the Economic Policy Institute.
The USA Today
March 31, 2023
“The entire increase in unionization in 2022 was among workers of color—workers of color saw an increase of 231,000, while white workers saw a decrease of 31,000,” wrote the Economic Policy Institute in a press release in February. “Of all major racial and ethnic groups, Black workers continue to have the highest unionization rates, at 12.8%. This compares with 11.2% for white workers, 10.0% for Latinx workers, and 9.2% for Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) workers”.
Payday Reports
March 31, 2023