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Thanks to a new interactive online report ([link removed]) from EPI and the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at U.C. Berkeley, readers can find out what it would cost to create a high-quality early child care and education (ECE) system in their state and how many teachers, parents, and children could benefit. The report acknowledges what policymakers are beginning to recognize: we can’t solve the child care crisis without a major investment. A companion report ([link removed]) outlines the resources
currently invested in early care and education in the U.S., including some of the unspoken costs of our chronically underfunded system—underpaid ECE teachers living in poverty, parents forgoing paid work to care for their children, and compromised quality of care. Visit the interactive report » ([link removed])
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** Remembering Emmett Till and voter suppression on MLK Day ([link removed])
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EPI Economist Jhacova Williams describes the link between the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till and Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech in a new blog post ([link removed]) . Using data from the Historical American Lynching Data Collection Project at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, and present-day voter registration of blacks in southern states, Williams shows how blacks living in counties that experienced more historical lynchings are less likely to register to vote. These acts of terror depress black political participation and account for racial disparities in education, earnings, and incarceration rates today. Read the blog post » ([link removed])


** Thirteen charts show what our economic priorities need to be in 2020 ([link removed])
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EPI released its Top Charts of 2019 ([link removed]) , a set of 13 charts that highlight our most urgent economic challenges. The charts tell the story of how working people are faring in today’s economy. While we’re currently in the longest economic expansion in U.S. history, the slow recovery from the Great Recession has been marked by growing economic inequality, workers’ weakening ability to collectively bargain, a stagnant federal minimum wage, and tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans. View the charts » ([link removed])


** State-level minimum wage increases impact nearly 7 million workers ([link removed])
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On January 1, nearly 7 million workers in 22 states received pay raises as a result of state-level minimum wage increases, according to a blog post ([link removed]) by EPI Senior Economic Analyst David Cooper. These workers will earn an extra $8.2 billion in 2020. State-level increases ranged from a $0.10 inflation adjustment in Florida to $1.50-per-hour raises in New Mexico and Washington. Three more states—and the District of Columbia—will raise pay for their lowest-paid workers later this year. More information on state and local increases can be found in EPI’s Minimum Wage Tracker ([link removed]) . Read the blog post » ([link removed])


** China trade deal unlikely to restore the 3.7 million U.S. jobs lost since 2001 ([link removed])
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EPI Senior Economist Robert Scott writes in a blog post ([link removed]) that the Trump administration’s trade deal with China will not restore the 3.7 million U.S. jobs lost between 2001 and 2018. China’s persistent history of currency manipulation and dollar misalignment is the greatest cause of U.S. trade deficits with China and associated job losses, but the trade deal provides “extremely unfavorable terms” for the U.S. on exchange rates, as Scott explains in a Hill op-ed ([link removed]) . Read the blog post » ([link removed])


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