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• Netflix’s ‘Maid’ can spark more understanding of the issues facing domestic workers

  Struggling to pay bills is not surprising given that Seattle has the sixth highest cost of living in the country and infant child care in Washington clocks in at a whopping $1,213 a month according to the Economic Policy Institute.  

  Seattle Times | December 3, 2021
• Substitute teacher shortage increases burnout in North Dakota public schools

  The Economic Policy Institute warns this kind of shortage threatens students’ ability to learn, increases teacher turnovers and reduces effectiveness.

  KX News | December 3, 2021
• Meet the woman on the brink of transforming labor in America for the young and reshuffling workforce. ‘We could unleash unprecedented organizing.’

  “The labor movement is the largest working women’s organization in the country. A lot of people don’t think of us in that way, but we represent six-and-a-half million women,” Shuler said. 

  The left-leaning Economic Policy Institute found that women in unions are paid more than their counterparts, and that collective bargaining helps close pay gaps for workers of color.

  Business Insider | December 3, 2021
• Growing Pains: Short-term rentals are prompting concerns around the world

  A 2019 analysis by the independent Economic Policy Institute in the United States argues the cost of the expansion of short-term rentals and Airbnbs outweighs the benefits for local jurisdictions and long-term residents.

  Toronto Star | December 3, 2021
• Appeals for Fairness Won’t End Anti-Worker Abuses or Get Us the PRO Act

  According to the Economic Policy Institute, employers violate workers’ right to a union and collective bargaining in more than 40% of union election campaigns. Amazon was recently caught red-handed violating worker rights in Bessemer, Ala., with help from the U.S. Postal Service, no less.

  LaborPress | December 3, 2021
• Here’s How Stimulus Money Changed Everything in 2021

  The pandemic forced a dramatic shift toward the purchase of physical goods and away from the purchase of face-to-face services. According to the Economic Policy Institute, that dynamic did not change — at least not enough — when the checks started arriving in March despite the millions of vaccinations that had been administered across the country. 

  GoBanking Rates | December 3, 2021
• Unions: New Allies With America First?

  Consider the decades-long trend of widening income inequality in America. Until the 1960s, roughly 30% of U.S. workers were unionized and the top 10% of all earners in the country took home roughly 30% of all pay. By 2019, only 10% of workers were unionized, and the top 10% of all earners captured fully 46% of all pay. The results were especially crushing for men, who tended to be more unionized. For male workers, median yearly income declined by a stunning $5,171 in real terms over the decades from 1979 to 2019, per a study from the Economic Policy Institute.

   
  Real Clear Politics | December 3, 2021

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