Economic Policy Institute

...undecided. The debate was moderated by John Donvan, correspondent for ABC News' Nightline. The panelists were: Lawrence Mishel came to the Economic Policy Institute in 1987 and served as its first research director, then as vice president...

In this article: Eliot Spitzer, Steve Rattner, Federal Reserve System, New York University, Lawrence Mishel, James K. Galbraith, and New York

...help them avoid firing public workers, and that a tax provision to encourage businesses to hire sooner rather than later may have merit. The Economic Policy Institute, another liberal Washington think-tank, estimates a 15 percent new job tax...

In this article: Barack Obama, Unemployment, White House, Tax, U.S., Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Washington

...see more years of high unemployment," said Algernon Austin, a sociologist and director of the race, ethnicity and economy program at the Economic Policy Institute, which studies issues involving low- and middle-income wage earners. Earlier...

In this article: Unemployment, Recession, Howard University, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Washington, D.C., and Economics

...significant actions to balance revenues and expenditures in their Fiscal Year 2010 budgets," they wrote. A separate study from the Economic Policy Institute on Nov. 19 said that states, counties and cities will face a collective budget...

In this article: Revenue, Cnnmoney.com, Tax, and Nasdaq

...that added payroll jobs. </p><p>That’s the highest number of states adding jobs since 33 states did so in February 2008, according to the Economic Policy Institute. It also was up from seven in September and eight in August. </p><p>...

In this article: Kansas, Missouri, Recession, Unemployment, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and Michigan

...September and eight in August. It's also the largest number to record increases since 33 states did so in February 2008, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank. "It's a positive signal ... that states are mixed rather...

In this article: California, Nevada, Texas, Washington, D.C, Michigan, Recession, Labor Department, and Moody's

...to raise taxes and cut spending in the current and next two fiscal years to cover shortfalls totaling $469 billion, according to an Economic Policy Institute report. The think tank -- where White House adviser Jared Bernstein spent years...

In this article: Jared Bernstein, Brookings Institution, Recession, Thomson Reuters, Bowling Green, U.S., Fiscal year, and Tax