Thirty states have introduced bills to weaken child labor laws since 2021, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank.
Courier Journal
March 29, 2024
When deciding how much to tip, it can be helpful to look up the minimum and subminimum wages of your state, says Allegretto. The think tank Economic Policy Institute has a wage tracker that can help you find this information.
NPR
March 29, 2024
As of 2022, teachers earn 26.4% less than other college-educated workers, the lowest in six decades, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Stacker
March 29, 2024
These uses of state power to try to suppress Southern workers’ wages by blocking the path to a union contract are nothing new.
Southern Republicans have for decades claimed that “business-friendly” policies—including laws that constrain workers’ rights—would lead to an abundance of jobs and prosperity. The data show a grim reality.
Newsweek
March 29, 2024
On Tuesday, a virtual workshop will be held to offer basic information regarding unions for working class folks and others interested in learning about the topic especially in Alabama.
The workshop is sponsored by the North Alabama Labor Council and the presentation will be conducted by Jennifer Sherer of the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). Sherer is a senior state policy coordinator for EPI’s Economic Analysis and Research Network (EARN) Worker Power Project.
Alabama Reporter
March 29, 2024
It’s up to each state representative to set their employees’ salaries with a $75,000 cap, according to McCann, Tate’s spokesperson. Representatives must pay their staff at least $35,000. That floor means representatives can pay their staff about $7,000 less than a living wage in the Lansing/East Lansing metro area, according to calculations from the Economic Policy Institute, a research organization focused on low- and middle-income workers.
Detroit Free Press
March 29, 2024
Education majors tend to be paid less as well. While teachers have good job security, summers off and pensions, they’re usually paid by state governments, which have lagged in keeping wages commensurate with inflation. In recent years, the “teacher pay penalty” has gotten worse, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
CNBC
March 29, 2024
The Economic Policy Institute says the average annual income of the top 1% is $1,316,985, but most people would probably feel like they were on Easy Street with a whole lot less.
GO Banking Rates
March 29, 2024
Heidi Shierholz, President of the Economic Policy Institute, joins the podcast to discuss the ongoing skewing of the income distribution. There’s a lengthy list of reasons why more of the economic pie is going to those in the top of the distribution, from less unionization and lax enforcement of labor laws, but you would be surprised to hear what’s not on the list. You may also be surprised that the conversation ends on an upbeat note.
Inside Economics podcast
March 29, 2024
It’s been four years since the Covid-19 pandemic led to business shutdowns across the country and a subsequent record 3.28 million unemployment filings. Valerie Wilson, director of the Economic Policy Institute on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy, gives us her take on the state of the labor market.
Wall Street Journal Take On The Week Podcast
March 29, 2024
Samantha Sanders, the director of government affairs and advocacy at nonprofit organization Economic Policy Institute, told Law360 on Monday that “things could have come out much worse” during the compromising undertaking the bill process required, but that what the department is getting might still not be enough.
“Considering that the funding for Wage and Hour is more or less flat, that’s certainly better than a cut, but not anywhere near where it should be, ideally, to actually do what they need to do,” Sanders said.
Law360
March 26, 2024
In fact, wages for most workers in the U.S. have essentially stagnated since the 1970s, despite a rise in productivity. Middle-wage workers’ hourly pay is up 6% since 1979, and low-wage workers’ earnings are actually down 5%. Meanwhile, those with very high wages saw a 41% increase, according to an analysis from the Economic Policy Institute. That’s a significant spike in inequality that can make the question of whether you can afford to become a parent a difficult one.
Motley Fool
March 26, 2024
According to the Economic Policy Institute, there have been at least 12 bills filed in 10 separate states over the past two years aimed at loosening child labor laws.
Action News Jax
March 26, 2024
According to the Economic Policy Institute, since the 1970s the U.S. economy has suffered from wage stagnation and the slow growth of living standards for low- and moderate-income workers while the costs of living have drastically increased. On the flip side, those with the most income, wealth, and power have continued to actively suppress policies that would allow for shared prosperity.
Santa Monica Daily Press
March 26, 2024
Thirty states have introduced bills to weaken child labor laws since 2021, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank.
Courier Journal
March 26, 2024
When deciding how much to tip, it can be helpful to look up the minimum and subminimum wages of your state, says Allegretto. The think tank Economic Policy Institute has a wage tracker that can help you find this information.
NPR
March 26, 2024
As of 2022, teachers earn 26.4% less than other college-educated workers, the lowest in six decades, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Stacker
March 26, 2024
These uses of state power to try to suppress Southern workers’ wages by blocking the path to a union contract are nothing new.
Southern Republicans have for decades claimed that “business-friendly” policies—including laws that constrain workers’ rights—would lead to an abundance of jobs and prosperity. The data show a grim reality.
Newsweek
March 26, 2024
On Tuesday, a virtual workshop will be held to offer basic information regarding unions for working class folks and others interested in learning about the topic especially in Alabama.
The workshop is sponsored by the North Alabama Labor Council and the presentation will be conducted by Jennifer Sherer of the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). Sherer is a senior state policy coordinator for EPI’s Economic Analysis and Research Network (EARN) Worker Power Project.
Alabama Reporter
March 26, 2024
It’s up to each state representative to set their employees’ salaries with a $75,000 cap, according to McCann, Tate’s spokesperson. Representatives must pay their staff at least $35,000. That floor means representatives can pay their staff about $7,000 less than a living wage in the Lansing/East Lansing metro area, according to calculations from the Economic Policy Institute, a research organization focused on low- and middle-income workers.
Detroit Free Press
March 25, 2024
Education majors tend to be paid less as well. While teachers have good job security, summers off and pensions, they’re usually paid by state governments, which have lagged in keeping wages commensurate with inflation. In recent years, the “teacher pay penalty” has gotten worse, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
CNBC
March 25, 2024
The Economic Policy Institute says the average annual income of the top 1% is $1,316,985, but most people would probably feel like they were on Easy Street with a whole lot less.
GO Banking Rates
March 25, 2024
Heidi Shierholz, President of the Economic Policy Institute, joins the podcast to discuss the ongoing skewing of the income distribution. There’s a lengthy list of reasons why more of the economic pie is going to those in the top of the distribution, from less unionization and lax enforcement of labor laws, but you would be surprised to hear what’s not on the list. You may also be surprised that the conversation ends on an upbeat note.
Inside Economics podcast
March 25, 2024
It’s been four years since the Covid-19 pandemic led to business shutdowns across the country and a subsequent record 3.28 million unemployment filings. Valerie Wilson, director of the Economic Policy Institute on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy, gives us her take on the state of the labor market.
Wall Street Journal Take On The Week Podcast
March 25, 2024
Not all companies have responded to union drives with such hostility. Ben & Jerry’s and Microsoft have “tried to start a positive labor-management relationship,” the Economic Policy Institute reported on March 7, in an article arguing that the legal battle to ditch the NLRB relies on “long-rejected constitutional arguments about the agency’s structure.” EPI notes that none of the workers at Starbucks, Amazon or Trader Joe’s have a collective bargaining agreement yet, because these companies “have stalled the bargaining process.”
Counterpunch
March 22, 2024
The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) noted in its analysis of the BLS figures that the share of nonunion workers who would like to have a union at their workplace is far higher than the share who actually have union representation,” a testament to the effectiveness of corporate union-busting campaigns and the need for much stronger federal labor laws.
Common Dreams
March 22, 2024
In 1965, the average chief executive’s pay at the 350 largest U.S. companies was about 20 times the average wage of their rank-and-file workers, according to the labor-affiliated Economic Policy Institute. In 2022, it was 344.5 times as much.
LA Times
March 22, 2024
The lowest-paid workers in the U.S. economy have seen their wages surge in the past four years, outpacing gains for any other group of earners, according to a new report from Economic Policy Institute – but their wages remain “grossly inadequate.”
Real wages of the lowest-paid workers grew 12.1% between 2019 and 2023, researchers at the left-leaning think tank found, surging faster than the wages of any other group of earners. That number is adjusted for inflation.
The trend is “a notable reversal of fortune for lower-wage workers in the U.S. labor market,” researchers wrote in the report, released Thursday.
MarketWatch
March 22, 2024
The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act—accurately described by the progressive Economic Policy Institute as “essentially a climate-change bill”— …
The Wall Street Journal
March 22, 2024