Since the COVID pandemic, educators have left their jobs in record numbers due to low pay and severely low morale. While educator vacancies in Nevada are not new, at the midpoint of this school year we still have thousands of school vacancies, with many more positions being covered by long-term substitutes. A December report from the Economic Policy Institute found there is a widespread national teacher shortage that is especially severe here in Nevada and in districts and schools with high percentages of low-income students and students of color. They also found the current shortage is not the result of an insufficient number of qualified teachers, but rather low pay and an increasingly stressful work environment. The average pay differential between teachers and similar college graduates in the job market has grown to 23.5%.
Reno Gazette Journal
February 10, 2023
Massachusetts has some of the most expensive child care in the nation, according to 2020 data from the Economic Policy Institute, with the average monthly price for an infant sitting at $1,743 and $1,258 for a 4-year-old.
WGBH
February 10, 2023
Features Daniel discussing California Farmworkers.
KQED
February 10, 2023
Ohio state Rep. Elliot Forhan said lawmakers are planning to introduce legislation this year that will eliminate subminimum wages, and a separate bill would immediately bump the minimum wage for all workers from $10.10 to $15 per hour. It would then increase to $21 over three years and increase $1 annually until it reaches the living wage as defined by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Living Wage Calculator or Economic Policy Institute’s Family Budget Calculator, according to Forhan.
Route Fifty
February 10, 2023
In addition to those demographic and pandemic factors, temporary government stimulus programs during the pandemic, such as boosted unemployment payments, gave more workers the confidence to switch jobs and seek better pay and working conditions, said Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank. That’s given workers a lasting upper hand in the job market.
Investopedia
February 10, 2023
In 2021, the child poverty rate dropped to 5.2% — a notable decline from 9.7% in 2020. And the boosted Child Tax Credit is the leading reason, according to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). In the absence of that enhancement, it’s easy to see why so many children have slipped back into poverty.
Motley Fool
February 10, 2023
Coming up on today’s show:
- Kyle Moore, economist with the Economic Policy Institute’s Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), talks about persistence of, and ways to eliminate, the Black-white wealth gap which is still evident despite civil rights and fair housing legislation.
WNYC Brian Lehrer Show
February 10, 2023
Among the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ findings for the month was also the market’s historically low unemployment rate of 3.4% or 5.7 million people. That’s the lowest it’s been since 1969. The rate “continues to show the we have an especially tight labor market,” says Ben Zipperer, economist at the Economic Policy Institute, meaning one in which workers have a lot of opportunities.
CNBC
February 10, 2023
“Inflation has been quite high over the last year and that has eaten away at many paychecks, says Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute. “But if we look more recently though, there is a bit of a more nuanced story.”
Fast Company
February 10, 2023