“Since the era of slavery, the dominant view of Black women has been that they should be workers, a view that contributed to their devaluation as mothers with caregiving needs at home,” wrote economics professor Nina Banks in a 2019 article for the Economic Policy Institute. “African American women’s unique labor market history and current occupational status reflects these beliefs and practices.”
Civil Eats
May 24, 2023
Epperson’s early experience was typical of many exhausted employees working long hours just to get by. According to a report from the Economic Policy Institute, the lowest-earning quintile of Americans worked nearly 25 percent more hours in 2016 than they did in 1979. As wages have stagnated for low-income Americans, they’ve had to work more hours to make ends meet.
The Atlantic
May 24, 2023
In fact, a recent report by the Economic Policy Institute highlights that income inequality has cost Social Security billions of dollars of revenue every year.
The Hill
May 24, 2023
The problem for Kroger and Albertsons: When you look at the available facts, all those who truly care about our local communities across New Mexico should be deeply concerned. Consider a recent analysis by the Economic Policy Institute that found the merger will lower wages for 746,000 grocery store workers in over 50 metropolitan areas of the U.S. Even worse, grocery workers could lose more than $300 million in wages each year if the proposed merger went through due to lack of competition. In total, this would result in lost wages for these essential workers and would negatively impact wages for all grocery workers — regardless of whether they are employed by Kroger or Albertsons.
Santa Fe New Mexican
May 24, 2023
Several months after Weber’s research, a study from the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute found that more than half of inflation since mid-2020 could be attributed to larger corporate profit margins.
Fortune
May 24, 2023
According to research from the Economic Policy Institute, approximately 217,000 minimum wage earners in Ohio are victims of wage theft each year, each missing out on an average of $2,800.
Cleveland.com
May 24, 2023
“We are down nationally almost 2% from the pre-pandemic period (February 2020),” Kamper said. “In recent years, as we recovered from the pandemic, state and local government jobs have become less attractive because their pay has not kept up with pay in private sector jobs.”
The Bond Buyer
May 24, 2023
As CEOs complain about workers being less productive, their own paychecks are skyrocketing. According to the Economic Policy Institute, CEO compensation has grown 1,322% since 1978, while typical worker compensation has risen just 18%. Most recent figures suggest that S&P 500 CEOs averaged $18.3 million in compensation for 2021—324 times the median worker’s pay.
Fast Company
May 24, 2023
A quick search shows that there is a broad range of officials — from those at UBS to Unite the Union, from Goldman Sachs and the European Central Bank to the US Economic Policy Institute (EPI) — suggesting that over half of all the current price markup is to do with corporate profiteering.
Jacobin
May 24, 2023
The predictions have proven prescient: Just a year after the decision, the Economic Policy Institute found that the rate of arbitration agreements, which was already on the rise before Epic Systems, had accelerated following the decision. EPI predicted that by 2024, 80 percent of non-union workers would be subjected to forced arbitration clauses.
Balls and Strikes
May 24, 2023
A study released last year by the Economic Policy Institute examined realized annual income, a measure that includes stock options found that CEOs at the top 350 publicly traded companies were paid $27.8 million on average in 2021, or 399 times more than a typical worker – up from 366-to-1 in 2020 and way up from 59-to-1 in 1989.
24/7 Wall St.
May 24, 2023
Bills to relax child labor laws were introduced in at least 10 states over the last two years, all backed by a mix of business groups, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Chicago Sun Times
May 24, 2023
The Economic Policy Institute, which tends to publish its data in the fall of each year, reviewed a broader range of 350 U.S. companies and estimated the average ratio was 399:1 in 2021. This was up from 351:1 in 2020.
Waste Dive
May 24, 2023
Research by the Economic Policy Institute found that over the course of the last four decades, the share of younger telecom workers has fallen from around 19% to 7%.
The Fast Mode
May 24, 2023
Mast asserted that strong public opposition stopped deregulation bills in several states. In Virginia, she says, a subminimum wage bill for youth failed due to a public backlash.
But she was under no illusions about the ultimate goal of those advocating for looser child labor laws: “It is about taking us back to the time of economic opportunity for the few and exploitation for everyone else.”
The Progressive Magazine
May 24, 2023
In the last few decades, labor educators like Jennifer Sherer have analyzed child labor issues in other countries. Now, in her work at the Economic Policy Institute, she has been forced to refocus on domestic issues. Proposed legislation rolling back child labor laws “is an emerging and really accelerating trend,” Sherer told Future of the American Child fellows in Cleveland. “This question of how we will or whether we should regulate child labor has never been settled.”
National Press Foundation
May 24, 2023
Right now, the price of food doesn’t reflect any of those factors. In fact, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute, corporate profits accounted for 54 percent of food price increases between 2020 and 2021. For the four decades prior, only 11 percent was attributed to corporate profits, the rest to the cost of labor.
Civil Eats
May 24, 2023
“It’s absolutely the case that many employers prefer tipping to paying adequate straight wages to employees,” Ben Zipperer, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, told Insider, adding, “the entire cost is paid for by the customer when workers have to rely on tips for wage increases.”
Business Insider
May 24, 2023
The Economic Policy Institute puts North Carolina’s minimum living wage for one adult and one child as of 2020 at $48,346.
WITN
May 24, 2023
In all, the Economic Policy Institute wrote on Friday that the bill constitutes a “major win” for workers in the state.
Truthout
May 24, 2023
Between 2017 and 2020, more than $3 billion in stolen wages were recovered by the U.S. Department of Labor, state departments of labor (must be nice to have one!), attorneys general, and through litigation, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Orlando Weekly
May 24, 2023
The Iowa legislation is among at least 14 bills introduced this year in legislatures around the country that weaken child labor protections, according to a new analysis by the union-backed Economic Policy Institute.
NBC News
May 24, 2023
A new analysis from the Economic Policy Institute found the Class of 2023 is graduating into the best labor market for young workers since 1953.
Fox Business
May 24, 2023
Epperson’s early experience was typical of many exhausted employees working long hours just to get by. According to a report from the Economic Policy Institute, the lowest-earning quintile of Americans worked nearly 25 percent more hours in 2016 than they did in 1979. As wages have stagnated for low-income Americans, they’ve had to work more hours to make ends meet.
The Atlantic
May 24, 2023
“Since the era of slavery, the dominant view of Black women has been that they should be workers, a view that contributed to their devaluation as mothers with caregiving needs at home,” wrote economics professor Nina Banks in a 2019 article for the Economic Policy Institute. “African American women’s unique labor market history and current occupational status reflects these beliefs and practices.”
Civil Eats
May 24, 2023
The problem for Kroger and Albertsons: When you look at the available facts, all those who truly care about our local communities across New Mexico should be deeply concerned. Consider a recent analysis by the Economic Policy Institute that found the merger will lower wages for 746,000 grocery store workers in over 50 metropolitan areas of the U.S. Even worse, grocery workers could lose more than $300 million in wages each year if the proposed merger went through due to lack of competition. In total, this would result in lost wages for these essential workers and would negatively impact wages for all grocery workers — regardless of whether they are employed by Kroger or Albertsons.
Santa Fe New Mexican
May 24, 2023
In fact, a recent report by the Economic Policy Institute highlights that income inequality has cost Social Security billions of dollars of revenue every year.
The Hill
May 24, 2023
According to research from the Economic Policy Institute, approximately 217,000 minimum wage earners in Ohio are victims of wage theft each year, each missing out on an average of $2,800.
Cleveland.com
May 24, 2023
Mast asserted that strong public opposition stopped deregulation bills in several states. In Virginia, she says, a subminimum wage bill for youth failed due to a public backlash.
But she was under no illusions about the ultimate goal of those advocating for looser child labor laws: “It is about taking us back to the time of economic opportunity for the few and exploitation for everyone else.”
The Progressive Magazine
May 22, 2023
Right now, the price of food doesn’t reflect any of those factors. In fact, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute, corporate profits accounted for 54 percent of food price increases between 2020 and 2021. For the four decades prior, only 11 percent was attributed to corporate profits, the rest to the cost of labor.
Civil Eats
May 22, 2023