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Teacher pay rises in 2023—but not enough to shrink pay gap with other college
graduates

Despite a small improvement of 1.7% in teachers’ average weekly wages, the
relative pay penalty between public school teachers and college graduates in
other professions remains large.

Teacher quality is the most important school-related factor influencing student
achievement. Closing the growing pay gap between teachers and other college
graduate professionals is critical to public education. Read more


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 * Summer unemployment benefits could increase K–12 support staff incomes by
   $1.2 billion nationwide
 * The public-sector pay gap is widening. Unions help shrink it
 * Improving teacher diversity is key to reducing racial disparities in academic
   outcomes and addressing the teacher shortage
 * Vouchers undermine efforts to provide an excellent public education for all

Southern economic policies undermine job quality for auto workers

The South offers a powerful opportunity to bring good jobs to the region. But as
these jobs shift from the Midwest to the South, we see a decline in job quality
in the sector. Why? The prevailing Southern economic development model
disempowers workers. Read more


MORE FROM ROOTED IN RACISM

 * Southern policymakers leave workers with lower wages and a fraying safety net
 * Tipping is a racist relic and modern tool of economic oppression
 * The evolution of the Southern economic development strategy

The public-sector pay gap is widening. Unions help shrink it.

Public-sector employees earn less than their private-sector counterparts, and
that pay gap has widened in recent years. The pay gap is narrower in states
where public employees have stronger collective bargaining rights. Read the
report


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 * The rise of the ‘union curious’
 * Workers filed petitions for union elections in record numbers and captured
   significant wage gains through work stoppages and contract negotiations
 * Data show anti-union ‘right-to-work’ laws damage state economies

What workers, especially low-wage workers, really want and how best to provide
it

Many workers, especially low-wage workers, aren’t getting key benefits they
want—such as paid leave and predictable schedules—because lawmakers are letting
companies and employers get away with anti-worker practices. Read the report


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 * Tipping is a racist relic and a modern tool of economic oppression in the
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 * Understanding the impact of Alaska’s proposed $15 minimum wage
 * Fastest wage growth over the last four years among historically disadvantaged
   groups

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 * TEACHER PAY RISES IN 2023—BUT NOT ENOUGH TO SHRINK PAY GAP WITH OTHER COLLEGE
   GRADUATES
   
   September 12, 2024 By Sylvia Allegretto Report

 * SUMMER UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS COULD INCREASE K–12 SUPPORT STAFF INCOMES BY
   $1.2 BILLION NATIONWIDE
   
   September 5, 2024 By Dave Kamper, Sebastian Martinez Hickey, and Daniel Perez
   Report

 * SOUTHERN ECONOMIC POLICIES UNDERMINE JOB QUALITY FOR AUTO WORKERS: ROOTED IN
   RACISM AND ECONOMIC EXPLOITATION: SPOTLIGHT
   
   September 4, 2024 By Chandra Childers Report

 * THE PUBLIC-SECTOR PAY GAP IS WIDENING. UNIONS HELP SHRINK IT.
   
   August 29, 2024 By Monique Morrissey and Jennifer Sherer Report

 * FLEXIBLE WORK: WHAT WORKERS, ESPECIALLY LOW-WAGE WORKERS, REALLY WANT AND HOW
   BEST TO PROVIDE IT
   
   July 23, 2024 By Margaret Poydock, Lynn Rhinehart, and Celine McNicholas
   Report

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 * REAL MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME ROSE SHARPLY IN 2023—A TESTAMENT TO THE STRENGTH
   OF THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY
   
   September 10, 2024 By Elise Gould and Josh Bivens Blog

 * THE LABOR MARKET REMAINS STRONG YET THE FED SHOULD CUT RATES IN SEPTEMBER
   
   September 9, 2024 By Elise Gould and Josh Bivens Blog

 * MOST MINIMUM WAGE STUDIES HAVE FOUND LITTLE OR NO JOB LOSS
   
   September 9, 2024 By Ben Zipperer Blog

 * A 2023 CENSUS DATA PREVIEW: HOUSEHOLD INCOMES LIKELY ROSE BECAUSE OF A STRONG
   LABOR MARKET AND FALLING INFLATION
   
   September 6, 2024 By Elise Gould Blog

 * THE LABOR MARKET REMAINS STRONG WITH 142,000 JOBS ADDED IN AUGUST
   
   September 6, 2024 By EPI Staff Blog

 * PROFITS AND PRICE INFLATION ARE INDEED LINKED
   
   September 5, 2024 By Josh Bivens Blog

 * JOB OPENINGS AND LABOR TURNOVER SURVEY SHOWS THAT THE FED STILL NEEDS TO CUT
   INTEREST RATES
   
   September 4, 2024 By EPI Staff Blog

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EPI IN THE NEWS

 * Jamie Thompson has a history of voting against pro-union labor laws
   
   An analysis of anti-union laws in states across the country by the
   nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute shows that they have resulted in lower
   unionization rates, reduced benefits, and lower pay for workers. Full-time
   workers in states with anti-union labor laws are paid on average $1,670 less
   per year, or 3.2% less, than workers in states without such laws.
   
   Michigan Independent | September 13, 2024
 * Trump Proposes Dubious Plan To End Taxes On Overtime Work
   
   But business groups sued to stop Obama’s rule from taking effect, and then
   Trump won the presidency. Once he was in the White House, Trump rolled out
   a watered-down version of Obama’s proposal that gave far fewer people
   overtime pay.
   
   The Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank that was influential
   in crafting the Obama plan, said that Trump’s rule was a betrayal of his
   campaign promises to help the working class.
   
   “This administration is effectively turning its back on millions of workers,”
   the group said at the time.
   
   Huffpost | September 13, 2024
 * Trump pledges to eliminate taxes on overtime pay
    * Heidi Shierholz, an economist at EPI Action, said she’s doubtful of the
      new proposal because of Trump’s “clear record” on overtime.
    * “While president, he stripped overtime protections from millions by
      refusing to defend an overtime regulation that was stalled in the courts
      by a judge who used fatally flawed logic in his decision,” Shierholz said.
    * Project 2025, she added, “has a deeply anti-overtime agenda that would
      strip overtime from millions.”
   
   Axios | September 13, 2024
 * Gender wage gap widens for the first time in two decades
   
   Economists call this “occupational segregation.” There’s less of it than
   there used to be, noted Heidi Shierholz at the Economic Policy Institute. But
   it’s still a big factor in the gender pay gap.
   
   Similarly, “women shoulder disproportionate responsibility for caregiving in
   our society,” she said. “That is changing, but it is still the truth.”
   
   Marketplace | September 13, 2024
 * Believe It Or Not, Incomes Rose 4% Last Year
   
   Economists Elise Gould and Josh Bivens at the Economic Policy Institute, a
   nonpartisan think tank, wrote that the improving income data showed
   that post-pandemic fiscal relief helped the labor market quickly recover
   after the COVID-19 slowdown.
   
   “Today’s data highlight the extraordinary strength of the recovery from the
   economic crises caused by the pandemic,” they wrote in a blog post.
   
   Investopedia | September 13, 2024
 * CPI report for August: Higher ‘core’ inflation might limit Fed rate cut
   
   While many economists blamed inflation on an overheated economy during the
   pandemic recovery, the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute’s chief
   economist Josh Bivens asserted earlier this month that rising company
   profits, sometimes called “greedflation,” or “price gouging,”, explained well
   over 40% of the rise in prices between the end of 2019 and mid-2022.
   Corporate profits reached a record high in 2023.
   
   MarketWatch | September 13, 2024
 * Household income popped to prepandemic levels in 2023
   
   “Other welcome news include that income for lower-income households rose
   faster than for those at the median or at the top,” economists Elise Gould
   and Josh Bivens of the Economic Policy Institute wrote in a commentary. “This
   significant increase for lower-income households led to a drop in the
   official poverty rate of 0.4 percentage points to 11.1% in 2023.”
   
   The Hill | September 13, 2024

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