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• Louisiana residents won’t vote on $9 minimum wage after bill falls ‘woefully’ short in Senate

  The Louisiana Budget Project says increasing the state’s minimum wage to $9 an hour would directly affect 112,700 workers, boosting annual wages by a total of $156 million. The move would disproportionately affect women workers and people of color, according to a report compiled by LBP, which cited research from the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank that analyzes policies that impact working families.

  The Advocate | May 22, 2019
• US should lower value of its dollar to reduce trade deficit with China, economist says

  “If you really care about the trade deficit with China, what you want to do is come up with a strategy, a plan, that’s going to reduce the deficit, Scott, director of trade and manufacturing policy research at the Economic Policy Institute, told Hill.TV’s Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti on “Rising.”

  The Hill | May 22, 2019
• Economist says Trump cares more about Wall Street than workers

  “He cares much more about the interests of Wall Street than he does about workers and main street companies that are producing goods here in the United States,” Scott, the director of trade and manufacturing policy research at the Economic Policy Institute, told Hill.TV’s Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti on “Rising.”

  The Hill | May 22, 2019
• How Mississippi’s abundant low-wage workers earn less today than 50 years ago

  Oxfam estimates that raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour would result in pay increases for nearly half a million Mississippi workers, 396,000 of which Oxfam estimates will still earn under $15-an-hour in 2024 if the wage is not increased. The Oxfam report used data supplied from the Economic Policy Institute, a D.C.-based think-tank with labor union backing, and its Minimum Wage Simulation Model based on data from the Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and Congressional Budget Office.

  Mississppi Today | May 22, 2019
• Teacher pay gap reaches new highs

  Last year, the weekly wages for teachers was more than 21 percent lower than those of comparable workers. That’s according to the recent analysis from the Economic Policy Institute.

  KUNC | May 22, 2019
• Morning Shift

  — Report: “Unchecked corporate power – Forced arbitration, the enforcement crisis, and how workers are fighting back,” from the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute

  Politico | May 22, 2019
• Cities are losing ground in the fight to protect workers

  At issue are forced arbitration clauses that require employees (and consumers) to waive their rights to class-action lawsuits. Such contracts are becoming increasingly ubiquitous: According to a new report from the Center for Popular Democracy, Economic Policy Institute, and National Employment Law Project, forced arbitration will apply to more than 80 percent of the non-union private-sector workforce by 2024.

  CityLab | May 22, 2019

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