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Funder Briefing with EPI: The State of the Economy, Labor Market, and Inflation

Name: Funder Briefing with EPI: The State of the Economy, Labor Market, and Inflation
Start: 2022-10-18T13:00:00-04:00
End: 2022-10-18T13:30:00-04:00

October 18, 2022 @ 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm EDT

High inflation and an uncertain economy remain top issues for voters as we head into the 2022 elections. Watch our one-on-one conversation with Heidi Shierholz, President of Economic Policy Institute (EPI), on the state of the economy, labor market, and inflation.

Related Resources

CEO pay has skyrocketed 1,460% since 1978: CEOs were paid 399 times as much as a typical worker in 2021, By Josh Bivens and Jori Kandra, Economic Policy Institute, October 4, 2022.

Inflation, minimum wages, and profits, By Josh Bivens, Economic Policy Institute, September 22, 2022.

Tying minimum-wage increases to inflation, as 12 states do, will lift up low-wage workers and their families across the country, By Dave Kamper and Sebastian Martinez Hickey, Economic Policy Institute, September 6, 2022.

Rising inflation is a global problem: U.S. policy choices are not to blame, By Josh Bivens, Asha Benerji, and Mariia Dzholos, Economic Policy Institute, August 4, 2022.

Inflation is no excuse for inaction on needed tax reforms and investments, By Josh Bivens, Economic Policy Institute, July 26, 2022.

A recession would be worse than today’s inflation, By Josh Bivens, Economic Policy Institute, July 13, 2022.

Company wage tracker, Joint project of the Economic Policy Institute and the Shift Project, 2022

You can reach out to Heidi directly to learn more at hshierholz@epi.org.

Details

Date:: October 18, 2022
Time:: 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm EDT
Event Tags:: news