According to the Economic Policy Institute, between 2011-12, 57.9% of non-education Ph.D. students worked as graduate student assistants. In my own undergraduate education here at IU, they have been insightful discussion leaders and great advisors in office hours. Indeed, graduate student workers do all this at a fraction of a tenured professor’s salary, all the while the administration rakes in tuition money.
The Herald Times
April 22, 2022
“Employers spend about $340 million a year on consultants to prevent union elections, according to a 2019 report from the Economic Policy Institute. Laboratory Corp. of America spent $4.3 million on these efforts between 2014 and 2018, while FedEx spent $837,000 over the same period and Quest Diagnostics (one of America’s largest COVID-19 testing companies) spent $200,000 between 2015 and 2017. The EPI also found that consultants can get paid $350-plus an hour or $2,500-plus a day.”
AFL-CIO Blog
April 22, 2022
Productivity rises faster than wages. Since the Economic Policy Institute published the famous alligator graph first in the 1980s with the wide jaws of productivity going up and wages going down, workers have been giving more to the economy than they have been getting.
Forbes
April 22, 2022
A teaching shortage has been sweeping the country, according to data from the Economic Policy Institute. Especially in low-income and rural areas, school districts are lacking teachers with proper credentials to serve children.
Deseret News
April 22, 2022
Between 2013 and 2015, bad actor businesses stole an estimated $429 million in wages and overtime pay, according to research by the labor union-backed Economic Policy Institute.
The Detroit News
April 22, 2022
The Economic Policy Institute says on average, teachers earn 19.2% less than comparable graduates.
LEX 18 News
April 22, 2022
Taxes can and should be fairer. If there is a chief flaw in our tax system, it is the way it has grown increasingly regressive in recent decades. North Carolina, for instance – a state in which the system is still better than some that don’t even include an income tax – the richest one percent pays only about half as much of their incomes in state and local taxes as low- and middle-income people. As a recent report from the Economic Policy Institute also makes clear, a big part of the problem has been the “growing erosion of state corporate income taxes has been a prime source of revenue weakness over this time.”
NC Policy Watch
April 22, 2022
A new report by the Economic Policy Institute reveals the breadth of the problem. In Tennessee, more than 60% of corporations pay zero dollars in state corporate income taxes.
The Tennessean
April 22, 2022
Taxes were due on Monday for individuals and many corporations. But a new report from the Economic Policy Institute suggests many corporations in Connecticut may not be paying much at all.
CT Public Radio
April 22, 2022
A new study by the Economic Policy Institute shows that the effective state and local tax rate on corporate profits shrunk by between a third and a half between 1989 and 2017. This has a resulted in a revenue loss “estimated to be at least $43 billion and possibly as high as $57 billion.”
Urban Milwaukee
April 22, 2022