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• Wisconsin Republicans are Out of Step With the Times on Act 10

  A study by the Economic Policy Institute compared the economies of states with strong collective bargaining laws with so-called “right-to-work” states from 2011 to 2018. “Those ‘right-to-work’ states see slower economic growth, lower wages, higher consumer debt levels, worse health outcomes, and lower levels of civic participation,” one of the study’s authors, Frank Manzo, told Wisconsin Watch.

  The Progressive Magazine | December 6, 2024
• Opinion

  For corporations, though, the economy has been booming. According to the Economic Policy Institute, corporate profits and inflation over the pandemic have been linked.

  Newsweek | December 6, 2024
• New York minimum wage goes up on January 1

  On Jan. 1, 2027, pay in New York gets tied to the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W), a measure meant to keep pace with inflation. An “off-ramp” can freeze indexed increases if there are economic downturns or budget crises.

  But according to the Economic Policy Institute and the National Employment Law Project, that’s a dangerous off-ramp. Two conditions can freeze raises:

  Rochester First | December 6, 2024
• The Eight Headwinds Threatening Global Growth in 2025

  A 2017 study by the Economic Policy Institute, for example, showed that inequality reduced aggregate-demand growth by 2-4 percentage points of GDP per year between the late 1970s and 2012.

  Project Syndicate | December 6, 2024
• What Trump’s nominations say about where trade and other economic policies might go

  Heidi Shierholz, president of the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, applauded Trump’s choice of Chavez-DeRemer as secretary of Labor. Chavez-DeRemer has personal connections to the labor movement. But Shierholz wondered what difference she would be able to make. As with Trump’s Labor secretary in his first term, Alex Acosta, she said Chavez-DeRemer was likely to face significant constraints.

  “Trump doesn’t suffer dissent; I don’t have high hopes,” Shierholz said.

  LA Times | December 6, 2024
• It’s time for R.I. to get serious about teacher recruitment and retention

  According to a study by the Economic Policy Institute, that gap increased by 7.6 percent between 2010 and 2021, causing the average weekly wages of teachers…[paywall].

  Boston Globe | December 6, 2024
• Circuit court judge rejects effort to temporarily block Florida’s anti-union law

  Unions can help shrink the so-called public-sector wage gap, according to a report from the Economic Policy Institute, at a time when many state and local governments continue to face staffing shortages.

  Orlando Weekly | December 6, 2024

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