Black workers, along with Hispanic and Asian-American ones, are more likely to get paid poverty-level wages than their white counterparts, according to a 2018 report by the Economic Policy Institute.
Business Insider
February 11, 2022
“There’s just no valid argument, I think, for excluding agriculture,” said Daniel Costa, Director of Immigration Law and Policy Research at the Economic Policy Institute based in Washington, D.C.
Costa has worked at EPI for 11 years, looking specifically at the intersection of immigration and labor policy issues. The nonprofit, nonpartisan institute was established in 1986 to include the needs of low- and middle-income workers in economic policy discussions.
Statesman Journal
February 11, 2022
According to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), which first presented its research last week to a task force of the American Federation of Teachers, employment in public elementary and secondary schools decreased by nearly 5% overall from fall 2019 to fall 2021. The number of people employed as teachers fell by 6.8%, bus drivers by 14.6%, and custodians by 6%.
Common Dreams
February 11, 2022
According to a report by the Economic Policy Institute, teachers in the public high school sector made around 19.2 percent less than other types of workers who also went to college as of 2019. Teachers in the country have made less money on a consistent basis when compared to their counterparts in other fields, an exception being the 1960s.
Newsweek
February 11, 2022
As of January 30, federal contract workers must be paid at least $15 an hour under an executive order Biden signed in April that was finalized by the Labor Department in November. The Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning nonprofit, estimated that the number of workers who got a raise when it took effect last month may have been as high as 390,000. That’s a substantial accomplishment.
New Republic
February 11, 2022
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) did not collect wage data specifically for school bus drivers in 2019 and 2020, but BLS economist Elka Torpey told Jacobin that their median hourly wage in 2018 was $15.58. According to David Cooper, who directs the Economic Policy Institute’s Economic Analysis and Research Network, the number appears to be similar for 2020. At full-time, year-round hours, it’s not enough for a single adult to sustain an acceptable standard of living in many states — let alone raise kids or plan for retirement.
Jacobin
February 11, 2022
A 2020 report from the Economic Policy Institute found that nearly 40 percent of the animal slaughtering and processing workforce in the U.S. was foreign born and 70 percent of those workers were non-citizens. Meatpackers have increasingly relied on a limited number of immigrant worker visas over the last decade to staff their plants.
Politico
February 11, 2022
The Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act will amend the Federal Arbitration Act, a 100-year-old law that was initially designed to be a cost-effective way for business entities to resolve disputes. A series of Supreme Court decisions have expanded its scope. In 1992, just 2 percent of U.S. workers were subject to mandatory arbitration clauses. By 2018, it was more than 56 percent, or roughly 60 million workers, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
The 19th
February 11, 2022
Features Elise discussing the latest jobs report.
Hearst TV
February 11, 2022
Well one group, the Economic Policy Institute, which is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank that was created in 1986 “to include the needs of low- and middle-income workers in economic policy discussions,” believes that removing barriers to union organizing,would create a more equitable economy.
Industry Week
February 11, 2022
A recent study published by the Economic Policy Institute shows the cost of childcare for an infant is only 12.7% less than the cost of in-state tuition at a four-year public college.
Fox 17
February 11, 2022
Meanwhile, a new report released recently by the Economic Policy Institute that interprets data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics suggests two reasons for why school support jobs are not rebounding: the first being that workers in those roles tend to skew older—50.4% of cafeteria workers are 50 and over—and are therefore more likely to have serious COVID-19-related health concerns, and support staff wages in public K-12 schools are below industry standards, as the median weekly wage for cafeteria workers between 2014 and 2019 was $331, while the average American worker earned $790.
Food Management
February 11, 2022
This eye-opening study by the Economic Policy Institute finds that the average family in California would have to spend over 40% of their income to pay for child care for two children.
CBS 8
February 11, 2022
On Monday, the Economic Policy Institute released a study co-authored by Sojourner that found that working-aged Americans in households earning less than $25,000 annually as of 2019 were 3.5 times as likely to report missing a week of work because of COVID-19 symptoms when compared with households earning $100,000 or more.
The Hill
February 11, 2022
In a comment filed with the NLRB this week, the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute criticized the Uber advice memo. Those drivers don’t have actual entrepreneurial opportunity because they can’t develop markets, set prices, or determine routes, EPI said.
Bloomberg Law
February 11, 2022
Monique Morrissey an economist at the Economic Policy Institute agreed that an Older Workers Bureau at the Department of Labor would be able…(paywall).
Benefits Pro
February 11, 2022
But some studies show that raising wages would benefit workers. A study by the Economic Policy Institute found that raising the federal minimum wage would have a significant impact on reducing the wage gap for women and people of color, and Labor Secretary Marty Walsh told Insider there was “no question” that hiking the wage for contractors would help solve the labor shortage by reducing quit rates.
Business Insider
February 11, 2022
Forced arbitration clauses have become increasingly common in employment contracts. According to the Economic Policy Institute, 56.2 percent of private-sector, nonunion workers are subject to forced arbitration. That means approximately 60 million workers in the United States are denied the right to have their employment cases heard by a court.
Office of Senator Dianne Feinstein
February 11, 2022
According to an analysis of DOL data by the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank, DOL’s Wage and Hour Division recovered $257.8 million in back wages for workers in fiscal year 2020, $322.5 million in fiscal year 2019, $304.9 in fiscal year 2018 and $270.4 million in fiscal year 2017. More than 1 million workers received recovered wages during this period, with an average of more than $1,000 per worker.
The Grio
February 11, 2022
According to an analysis of DOL data by the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank, DOL’s Wage and Hour Division recovered $257.8 million in back wages for workers in fiscal year 2020, $322.5 million in fiscal year 2019, $304.9 in fiscal year 2018 and $270.4 million in fiscal year 2017. More than 1 million workers received recovered wages during this period, with an average of more than $1,000 per worker.
HR Dive
February 11, 2022
Stephen Stanley, chief economist at Amherst Pierpont Securities, said the report was “a crazy mess” in some respects, but most economists agreed that the positive results reflect real gains. “I don’t think anybody would dispute that we’re moving in the right direction,” Valerie Wilson of the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute told The Washington Post.
The Fiscal Times
February 11, 2022
How to read jobs reports. I’ve
talked about previous reports with Elise Gould, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, including what we do and do not learn from these reports.
She said they need to be viewed as pieces of information, not the full picture, in part because the surveys can overstate things and miss the changing composition of the workforce.
Still, it’s best to know the latest information, even if we know it’s likely to change, she said.
CNN
February 11, 2022
1 thing central bankers are worried about in 2022,” said Josh Bivens, research director at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think (paywall).
MarketWatch
February 11, 2022
As a policy matter, states and cities should think about requirements that would make public-facing jobs safer so older people feel comfortable returning to them, at least part time, said Monique Morrisey, an economist at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute specializing in retirement security. A healthier generation of older workers has become a mainstay of the workforce in recent years.
Route Fifty
February 11, 2022
The month-to-month economic readings for Black women and other minority groups can be particularly volatile due to smaller population size, according to Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute.
CNBC
February 11, 2022
Black workers, along with Hispanic and Asian-American ones, are more likely to get paid poverty-level wages than their white counterparts, according to a 2018 report by the Economic Policy Institute.
Business Insider
February 11, 2022
A new analysis is looking at one of the most pressing issues in our country: rising child care costs. According to the Economic Policy Institute, Arizona is one of 33 states where infant child care is more expensive than in-state college tuition. “It is definitely frustrating. It is frustrating on multiple factors because women end up being the brunt of it,” said Natacha Chavez.
AZ Family
February 11, 2022
“There’s just no valid argument, I think, for excluding agriculture,” said Daniel Costa, Director of Immigration Law and Policy Research at the Economic Policy Institute based in Washington, D.C.
Costa has worked at EPI for 11 years, looking specifically at the intersection of immigration and labor policy issues. The nonprofit, nonpartisan institute was established in 1986 to include the needs of low- and middle-income workers in economic policy discussions.
Statesman Journal
February 11, 2022
Well, we already know that the omicron wave has started to fade. You know, this was a very sharp spike but also a fairly short spike. And Elise Gould, who’s a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, says daily infections have already fallen by more than half from where they were in the middle of last month.
NPR Morning Edition
February 11, 2022
According to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), which first presented its research last week to a task force of the American Federation of Teachers, employment in public elementary and secondary schools decreased by nearly 5% overall from fall 2019 to fall 2021. The number of people employed as teachers fell by 6.8%, bus drivers by 14.6%, and custodians by 6%.
Common Dreams
February 11, 2022