To find the best cities for renting families to live for under $6,000 per month, GOBankingRates used data from ApartmentList, the Economic Policy Institute’s Family Budget Calculator and Sperling’s Best. Collectively, this data allowed us to find the average 2-bedroom rent in 2022, determine the cost of children within select metro areas and find cities with an overall cost of living index below 90.
GO Banking Rates
January 20, 2023
Women living in states that restrict or ban abortion face greater economic insecurity than those living in states where they have access, new research finds. Since the nearly seven months since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, half of all states – 26 in total – have implemented new abortion restrictions or all-out bans. In nearly all 26 states, there are lower minimum wages, unionization levels, access to Medicaid and unemployment benefits, as well as higher rates of incarceration than states with more lenient abortion policies, according to new research by the Economic Policy Institute.
Kaiser Health News
January 20, 2023
Colorado teachers salaries have been well below the national average, and educators in the state take home nearly 36% less than other college-educated workers, according to a 2022 report published by the nonprofit think tank Economic Policy Institute, which is based in Washington, D.C.
Colorado Sun
January 20, 2023
It comes as little surprise, but a new post from a pair of Economic Policy Institute experts — economist Ben Zipperer and state policy coordinator Dave Kamper — confirms that a key contributor to the stagnant low wages that millions of American working people continue to labor under is simple: out-of-date state minimum wage laws. The following is republished from EPI’s Working Economics blog:
The Progressive Pulse
January 20, 2023
(Paywall) – features Margaret discussing the BLS union membership data.
MarketWatch
January 20, 2023
A trio of Economic Policy Institute experts who analyzed recent data from both the BLS and the National Labor Relations Board pointed out Thursday that between October 2021 and last September, the NLRB saw a 53% increase in union election petitions, and “evidence suggests that in 2022 more than 60 million workers wanted to join a union, but couldn’t.”
Common Dreams
January 20, 2023
Union membership rates dipped slightly for a second consecutive year in 2022, according to data the U.S. Department of Labor released Thursday, continuing a historical trend despite the recent success of…(paywall – quotes Margaret on the union membership report).
Law 360
January 20, 2023
Research from the Economic Policy Institute finds that the compensation of chief executives has far outpaced that of the top 0.1 per cent of earners – a group that contains private company executives, corporate lawyers and private equity investors, who (presumably) all have similar skills.
Investor Chronicles
January 20, 2023
In a recent report from the Economic Policy Institute, analysts offer an explanation for anti-abortion rhetoric—Republican economics. EPI’s report, “The economics of abortion bans,” walks through the fiscal implications of abortion bans and how policy isn’t necessarily driven by religious beliefs but rather a form of economic subjugation.
Fast Company
January 20, 2023
Jennifer Sherer, senior state policy coordinator with the Economic Policy Institute, said that the council would be a “transformative opportunity” to set new standards around fast food and service work. Sheher points to a history of wage boards working to set such standards in the U.S. and around the globe.
Modern Retail
January 20, 2023