If the Affordable Care Act is abolished, an estimated 29.8 million people would lose their health insurance and 1.2 million jobs will be lost according to Economic Policy Institute.
Heartland Signal
December 1, 2023
A 2019 Economic Policy Institute study concluded that the economic harm Airbnb caused to long-term renters by reducing the housing supply and raising prices outweighed the benefits to travelers and property owners.
Pew Stateline
December 1, 2023
According to recent information from the Economic Policy Institute, presented at a committee hearing in November, the average cost of infant care in Minnesota is roughly 21-percent of the state’s median family income.
KTTC
December 1, 2023
Many parents feel they are dedicating so much of their paycheck to child care that it’s more valuable to stay with their child and ensure quality care, he adds. The average annual cost of child care for an infant in Virginia is more than $14,000, making Virginia the ninth most expensive state for child care in the country, according to a June report from the Economic Policy Institute.
Virginia Business
December 1, 2023
Still, as the Washington D.C.-based Economic Policy Institute pointed out in May, winning a union election is one thing, but securing an initial contract is another.
It pointed to a study published in the Industrial Relations Journal that found 63% of unions failed to reach a first contract within one year of winning their election. After two years, 43% had yet to do so.
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
December 1, 2023
The federal government recommends families spend about 7% of their annual income on child care. In Minnesota, infant care costs about 21% of the median family income, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
KSTP
December 1, 2023
The average annual cost of infant care in Massachusetts is nearly $21,000, according to the Economic Policy Institute. That’s $1,743 a month, a staggering burden for a single mother, and the second-highest cost among the 50 states.
Boston Globe
December 1, 2023
According to the Economic Policy Institute, Florida is one of at least 16 states where state lawmakers have moved to weaken child labor protections, even amid reports of rising labor violations.
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Nina Mast, a state economic analyst with the Economic Policy Institute, wasn’t surprised to learn the FGA — a group that’s lobbied for a number of policies that’d weaken the social safety net — was behind that bill.
“What we’re seeing is really a coordinated, multi-state effort led by business lobbying groups and right-wing advocacy groups to weaken state laws that govern current labor protections,” she told Orlando Weekly.
Orlando Weekly
December 1, 2023
The Economic Policy Institute reported 10 states introduced or passed bills rolling back child labor protections in the last two years.
Public News Service
December 1, 2023
▪ Cost of living. The typical budget for a two-parent, two-child family in Sacramento County is $7,689 per month, according to 2020 data from the Economic Policy Institute in Washington. The calculation addresses what it calls a “modest yet adequate standard of living.”
Sacramento Bee
December 1, 2023
The Economic Policy Institute, a think tank centering on economic policy issues that affect low- and middle-income workers, sees it differently. The Trump-era rule, EPI said, resulted in “an annual transfer of $1.3 billion from workers to employers.”
EPI “strongly supports” the new NLRB ruling.
Legal Dive
December 1, 2023
The Economic Policy Institute estimates that anywhere from 27% to 47% of all workers in the private sector are subject to some kind of non-compete restrictions.
The Daily Gazette
December 1, 2023
When there is a teacher shortage, a district may respond by increasing class size, which decreases individualized attention. Unfortunately, vouchers would further exacerbate the teacher shortage by impeding the growth of future teachers. The Economic Policy Institute reported that private schools often hire uncertified teachers, causing a ripple effect that discourages young teachers from pursuing certification.
El Paso Matters
December 1, 2023
If the Affordable Care Act is abolished, an estimated 29.8 million people would lose their health insurance and 1.2 million jobs will be lost according to Economic Policy Institute.
Heartland Signal
December 1, 2023
A 2019 Economic Policy Institute study concluded that the economic harm Airbnb caused to long-term renters by reducing the housing supply and raising prices outweighed the benefits to travelers and property owners.
Pew Stateline
December 1, 2023
A new report by the Jain Family Institute and Economic Policy Institute reveals that student debt worsens mortgage difficulties and financial instability among young and middle-aged American workers.
The Hilltop
December 1, 2023
According to recent information from the Economic Policy Institute, presented at a committee hearing in November, the average cost of infant care in Minnesota is roughly 21-percent of the state’s median family income.
KTTC
December 1, 2023
Rising inflation has put a dent in public school teachers’ salaries nationwide, according to recent research by the Economic Policy Institute. At the same time, districts like Portland Public Schools are having trouble meeting teachers’ financial needs.
K-12 Dive
December 1, 2023
Meanwhile, a concerted effort to loosen or abolish regulations around children in the workforce is under way across the country. Republicans are pushing to loosen child labour laws in at least 16 states, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
The Guardian
December 1, 2023
“Consider one metric of inequality — the ratio of the 90th-percentile wage (the wage earned by the worker who has higher pay than 90% of the workforce) to the 10th-percentile wage. Between 1980 and 2019, this ratio rose enormously by about 34%. But a full third of this 39-year increase has been erased in less than three years after 2019,” Bivens recently wrote in a blog post.
The 10th-percentile hourly wage was $12.57 in 2022, up 9% during that three-year period, he noted. “If this inequality reduction sticks, it could well be the single most important development in the economy in decades,” Bivens said.
CBS Moneywatch
December 1, 2023
Maryland and many other states now have laws on the books that
require minimum wages to rise along with inflation. Maryland leaders recognized that the $15 minimum unions and worker advocates campaigned for a decade ago no longer goes far enough, said Sebastian Martinez Hickey, a research assistant for the Economic Analysis and Research Network at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank in Washington, D.C.
“What they thought $15 an hour would achieve no longer has that same
purchasing power,” Hickey said. “A lot of other states are going to be
making a similar calculation in the next couple of years.”
It would take about $20 today to buy what $15 could buy 10 years ago,
according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. EPI backs raising the federal
minimum wage to $17 an hour by 2028.
Pluribus News
December 1, 2023
US law hamstrings organising efforts because it allows employers to punish union leaders with minimal consequences and to hold mandatory meetings where workers must listen to anti-union messages, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. Earlier UAW efforts to organise in the south met defeat at Nissan’s plant in Mississippi and VW’s in Tennessee, while in February, 18 workers at Tesla said they were fired for organising a union drive.
Financial Times
December 1, 2023
According to the Economic Policy Institute, nearly half of U.S. employers are charged with violating federal law in union election campaigns, from illegally firing workers to coercing and threatening workers. Some employers, flush with enough cash, hire professional union-busters to water down pro-union support within the workforce.
Orlando Weekly
December 1, 2023
The U.S. Department of Labor, which investigated those three businesses, found a 37% national increase in the number of minors whose employment has violated federal labor laws in some way since 2021, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Salt Lake Tribune
December 1, 2023
Behn noted a recent progressive Economic Policy Institute report showed more than 60% of corporations filing in Tennessee pay “zero in state corporate income tax,” a figure she said includes “27% of all billion-dollar corporations.”
Chattanooga Times Free Press
December 1, 2023
On average, teachers earn 23.5% less than comparable college graduates, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Richmond Times-Dispatch
December 1, 2023
▪ Cost of living. The typical budget for a two-parent, two-child family in Sacramento County is $7,689 per month, according to 2020 data from the Economic Policy Institute in Washington. The calculation addresses what it calls a “modest yet adequate standard of living.”
Sacramento Bee
December 1, 2023
The Economic Policy Institute estimates that anywhere from 27% to 47% of all workers in the private sector are subject to some kind of non-compete restrictions.
The Daily Gazette
December 1, 2023