A report from the Economic Policy Institute, titled COVID-19 and student performance, equity, and U.S. education policy, found that online learning and teaching are effective only if students have consistent access to the internet and computers and if teachers have received targeted training and support for online instruction.
North Carolina Health News
February 11, 2021
Detroit, MI – Today, U.S. Representative Brenda L. Lawrence (MI-14) shared a report by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) that analyzed the benefits of the Raise the Wage Act. Rep. Lawrence is an original co-sponsor of the legislation which she and her colleagues reintroduced last week. According to the report, increasing the minimum wage to $15 would benefit approximately 1.3 million Michiganders, including 92,000 people (31 percent of workers) in Michigan’s 14th Congressional District.
Public
February 11, 2021
Recent research from the Economic Policy Institute suggests that online teaching and learning models can be effective “if students have consistent access to the Internet and computers and if teachers have received targeted training and supports for online instruction.”
Ed Tech Magazine
February 11, 2021
CEO salaries grew 1,007.5% from 1978 to 2019, according to an Economic Policy Institute report. The average worker’s pay grew 11.9% during that same time. The public policy that allows this wage gap to widen can be changed, though, Baker says.
Acorns
February 11, 2021
Still, there are some compelling reasons to direct economic aid to mothers specifically, depending on what problem you’re trying to solve, says Elise Gould, an economist with the Economic Policy Institute. Extra income has a more positive impact on child poverty when mothers, rather than fathers, are the recipients of that money, research has found. But childhood poverty is yet another complex problem, and it is not the one the Marshall Plan group explicitly set out to address with this campaign.
Fortune
February 11, 2021
De Marco’s words point to a major blind spot within the study on minimum wage and HIV rates: the failure to consider employment trends. According to the Economic Policy Institute, even before the coronavirus-related economic depression, one in nine people in the U.S. working full-time schedules were paid amounts that left them in poverty, and Black and Latinx people were almost twice as likely as white people to be paid poverty-scale wages.
The Body
February 11, 2021
The Economic Policy Institute estimates that nearly a third of all Black workers would get a raise under the Raise the Wage Act. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that it could also raise wages for 17 million workers overall. Another 10 million workers earning just above $15 could also see an increase.
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February 11, 2021
Politifact
February 11, 2021