“While federal agencies are ramping up enforcement of child labor protections in response to increasing violations, industry groups are working to roll back child labor protections via state legislation,” the Economic Policy Institute reported in May.
Raw Story
December 19, 2023
According to the Economic Policy Institute, the compensation paid to the CEOs of the largest US companies has increased 13-fold since 1978, whereas the compensation paid to regular workers has risen by a mere 15%.
CEO World Magazine
December 19, 2023
“Workers are striking and forming unions because the US economy has churned out radically uneven income growth for decades, stemming from unbalanced bargaining power in the labor market,” said Margaret Poydock, a senior policy analyst at the Economic Policy Institute.
Yahoo Finance
December 19, 2023
But the term “wealthy” casts a very wide net in the United States — and not all wealthy people are billionaires or even millionaires. For example, if your definition of wealthy is the top 10% of earners, then someone who earns $167,639 a year qualifies, according to 2021 data from the Economic Policy Institute.
GO Banking Rates
December 19, 2023
Efforts to combat a bus driver shortage at districts like Shenendehowa go back years. The shortage has been seen across the state and country. According to the Economic Policy Institute, the number of school bus drivers nationwide dropped 15 percent between September 2019 and September 2023.
Albany Times Union
December 19, 2023
Economic Policy Institute’s Elise Gould talked about her group’s report on paid sick leave access and statewide legislative actions on the issue.
C-SPAN Washington Journal
December 19, 2023
“While federal agencies are ramping up enforcement of child labor protections in response to increasing violations, industry groups are working to roll back child labor protections via state legislation,” the Economic Policy Institute reported in May.
Raw Story
December 18, 2023
According to the Economic Policy Institute, the compensation paid to the CEOs of the largest US companies has increased 13-fold since 1978, whereas the compensation paid to regular workers has risen by a mere 15%.
CEO World Magazine
December 18, 2023
“Workers are striking and forming unions because the US economy has churned out radically uneven income growth for decades, stemming from unbalanced bargaining power in the labor market,” said Margaret Poydock, a senior policy analyst at the Economic Policy Institute.
Yahoo Finance
December 18, 2023
But the term “wealthy” casts a very wide net in the United States — and not all wealthy people are billionaires or even millionaires. For example, if your definition of wealthy is the top 10% of earners, then someone who earns $167,639 a year qualifies, according to 2021 data from the Economic Policy Institute.
GO Banking Rates
December 18, 2023
Efforts to combat a bus driver shortage at districts like Shenendehowa go back years. The shortage has been seen across the state and country. According to the Economic Policy Institute, the number of school bus drivers nationwide dropped 15 percent between September 2019 and September 2023.
Albany Times Union
December 18, 2023
Economic Policy Institute’s Elise Gould talked about her group’s report on paid sick leave access and statewide legislative actions on the issue.
C-SPAN Washington Journal
December 18, 2023
According to the Economic Policy Institute, the compensation paid to the CEOs of the largest US companies has increased 13-fold since 1978, whereas the compensation paid to regular workers has risen by a mere 15%.
CEO World Magazine
December 18, 2023
“Workers are striking and forming unions because the US economy has churned out radically uneven income growth for decades, stemming from unbalanced bargaining power in the labor market,” said Margaret Poydock, a senior policy analyst at the Economic Policy Institute.
Yahoo Finance
December 18, 2023
But the term “wealthy” casts a very wide net in the United States — and not all wealthy people are billionaires or even millionaires. For example, if your definition of wealthy is the top 10% of earners, then someone who earns $167,639 a year qualifies, according to 2021 data from the Economic Policy Institute.
GO Banking Rates
December 18, 2023
Efforts to combat a bus driver shortage at districts like Shenendehowa go back years. The shortage has been seen across the state and country. According to the Economic Policy Institute, the number of school bus drivers nationwide dropped 15 percent between September 2019 and September 2023.
Albany Times Union
December 18, 2023
Economic Policy Institute’s Elise Gould talked about her group’s report on paid sick leave access and statewide legislative actions on the issue.
C-SPAN Washington Journal
December 18, 2023
LA Times
December 15, 2023
A report published last year by Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit think tank the Economic Policy Institute found that Colorado teachers earn 35.9% less than other college-educated workers — the worst gap in the country.
Colorado Sun
December 15, 2023
Supporters viewed the rule’s likely outcomes differently. In practice, the rule will reduce turnover, save taxpayer money and make federal procurement more efficient, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank based in Washington, D.C.
SHRM
December 15, 2023
The top 1% of Americans earn over 26 times more than the bottom 99% and hold 21% of the nation’s total income, per the Economic Policy Institute. However, there’s some evidence that inequality has narrowed in recent years due to the strong wage gains of lower-income workers.
Business Insider
December 15, 2023
The federal Wage and Hour Division, in charge of investigating things like wage theft, suffers from “severe understaffing” and currently investigates fewer than 1% of farm employers per year, according to a 2023 report from the Economic Policy Institute.
Carolina Public Press
December 15, 2023
According to an Economic Policy Institute report, CEO compensation has grown by 1,209% since 1978, while the typical worker’s compensation has only ticked up 15%.
Sports Illustrated
December 15, 2023
The effort comes not a moment too soon, as wage theft and labor law violations have notoriously cost California’s minimum-wage earners nearly $2 billion every year, with a study from the Economic Policy Institute highlighting that these violations “exceeds the value of property crimes committed in the United States each year.”
Hoodline
December 15, 2023
The IRA was designed to counter the potential loss of American auto manufacturing jobs during the EV transition. The Washington, D.C.-based Economic Policy Institute warned in 2022 that 75,000 jobs could be lost “if – thanks to policy inaction – the batteries and drivetrains powering the BEVs continue to be produced abroad and U.S. producers make no gains in the share of overall car sales.”
Wards Auto
December 15, 2023
Arbitration clauses in employment agreements have become standard, with more than half of American employees subject to them, compared to 2 percent 30 years ago, according to research from the Economic Policy Institute.
Vanity Fair
December 15, 2023
From 1979 to 2013, hourly pay for middle-wage workers increased 6% and pay for low-wage workers decreased 5%, whereas pay for very high-wage workers increased 41%, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank.
CNET
December 15, 2023
Writing for the Economic Policy Institute in 2020, for instance, education economist Emma García summarized the data: “When black students have the opportunity to attend schools with lower concentrations of poverty and larger shares of white students they perform better, on average, on standardized tests.”
Minnesota Reformer
December 15, 2023
Still, the report said Colorado educators make about 37 percent less compared to other professionals with the same amount of education, citing research by the Economic Policy Institute.
Colorado Public Radio
December 15, 2023
LA Times
December 15, 2023