Joining Barber and his co-chair, the Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis, was a much less conventional array of experts. The Poor People’s Campaign had, in fact, partnered with some think-tank experts, like John Cavanaugh, the director of the Institute for Policy Studies, and Thea Lee, the president of the Economic Policy Institute, to write a fourteen-point policy plan pushing for poverty relief through a steep increase in the federal minimum wage, a single-payer universal health-care program, and student debt relief. That officials from think tanks based in D.C. presented a detailed policy proposal was itself nothing new for the transition period. This was the right time to make big asks.
Rolling Stone
June 3, 2024
Still, a 2017 report from the Economic Policy Institute found that, out of the 10 most populous states, minimum wage workers were least likely to be paid the bare minimum in Florida, with wage theft affecting an estimated one in four of Florida’s low-wage workers — our neighbors, friends and family members.
Orlando Weekly
June 3, 2024
The Economic Policy Institute says the minimum living wage is the income needed for a family of one adult and one child to have a modest but adequate standard of living in the most affordable metro area.
FOX 10 Phoenix
June 3, 2024
Nevertheless, the idea that the Senate would act on Ditelberg’s nomination without McFerran is a complete nonstarter under current leadership, said Celine McNicholas, general counsel and director of policy and governmental affairs at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
“The last time I checked, Democrats have the majority in the Senate,” said McNicholas, an NLRB official during the Obama administration.
Bloomberg Law
June 3, 2024
In fact, it increased again in the US for low-wage women, moving from 20.3% to 22.2% between 2019 and 2022, as cited by The Economic Policy Institute.
Forbes
June 3, 2024
“A lot of people just didn’t really know much about unions,” Knecht said. “So, it came down more to educating people on the unionizing process and how they work for us. Once you’ve kind of explained those things, people are on board.”
One way of educating was showing Economic Policy Institute statistics to coworkers that demonstrated the benefits of unionizing, Brown said.
NBC4i
June 3, 2024
The nationwide shortage of school bus drivers has left many students without reliable transportation. In 2023, the number of bus drivers nationwide in K-12 schools dropped to about 192,400, down 15.1% since 2019, according to research by the Economic Policy Institute.
CBS News
June 3, 2024
The cost of childcare in the Bay State is among the highest nationwide, running $15,095 a year for 4-year-olds, or $1,743 a month, according to 2023 data compiled by the Economic Policy Institute. The Bay State is ranked second out of the 50 states and the District of Columbia for the most expensive infant care, that same analysis showed.
Mass Live
June 3, 2024
The federal minimum wage — $7.25 an hour — has remained unchanged since 2009.
That’s the longest period in history without an increase from Congress, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank.
The minimum wage has lost 29% of its value since 2009 after accounting for the rising cost of living, according to an EPI analysis. It’s worth less than at any point since February 1956, the group found.
CNBC
June 3, 2024
The practice of labor law violations in countering unionization is so widespread that the Economic Policy Institute found in 2019 that “Employers are charged with violating federal law in 41.5 percent of all union election campaigns.” Given that these are officially deemed violations that have gone through the process of reporting and adjudicating, the number is likely an underestimate.
In These Times
June 3, 2024
Ismael Cid-Martinez, an economist with the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, said the aftereffects have been evident. Fewer parents say they can come up with $400 in an emergency, and they report more instances of food insufficiency.
After 2021, Cid-Martinez said, “parents’ savings began to dwindle.”
Another key pandemic program provided increased financial support to child care centers. That support, too, has ended without being reinstated.
NBC News
June 3, 2024
Activists appeal for a $15 minimum wage near the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021. According to the Economic Policy Institute, the federal minimum wage in 2021 was worth 34% less than in 1968, when its purchasing power peaked.
WOSU
June 3, 2024
Some empirically oriented economists, particularly those at the Economic Policy Institute, predicted that the corporate pillars of American capitalism would not only set up shop in China but decimate American manufacturing in the process. They were dismissed as protectionists, though their predictions proved to be entirely correct.
The American Prospect
June 3, 2024
A recent example came earlier this month from the Economic Policy Institute, written by Katherine deCourcy and Elise Gould.
Their research shows that young workers with a college degree have already economically recovered from the disruption and displacement caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. In fact, they say bluntly, “The labor market for young college graduates today is stronger than it was before the pandemic and has been for quite some time.”
Forbes
June 3, 2024
Industry Week
June 3, 2024
States continue to increase their minimum wages. Twenty-two states implemented higher minimum wages on Jan. 1, 2024, according to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). These increases in the statewide minimum wage affected an estimated 9.9 million workers and accounted for nearly $7 billion in additional wages.
MarketWatch
June 3, 2024
Over the past decade, households have seen expenses grow more than their incomes, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show. Today, the median income for a family of four is $114,425, according to the Census Bureau – which is just enough to cover basic necessities for a four-person family of $104,760, according to data from the Economic Policy Institute’s Family Budget Calculator.
MarketWatch
June 3, 2024
According to data compiled by the nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute, the Black unemployment rate in Pennsylvania was 5.7% in the first quarter of 2024. In the final quarter of 2020, before Biden took office, the rate was 16.5%. In the last two quarters of that year, Pennsylvania had the highest Black unemployment rate in the entire United States.
Pennsylvania Independent
June 3, 2024
Joining Barber and his co-chair, the Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis, was a much less conventional array of experts. The Poor People’s Campaign had, in fact, partnered with some think-tank experts, like John Cavanaugh, the director of the Institute for Policy Studies, and Thea Lee, the president of the Economic Policy Institute, to write a fourteen-point policy plan pushing for poverty relief through a steep increase in the federal minimum wage, a single-payer universal health-care program, and student debt relief. That officials from think tanks based in D.C. presented a detailed policy proposal was itself nothing new for the transition period. This was the right time to make big asks.
Rolling Stone
June 3, 2024
Still, a 2017 report from the Economic Policy Institute found that, out of the 10 most populous states, minimum wage workers were least likely to be paid the bare minimum in Florida, with wage theft affecting an estimated one in four of Florida’s low-wage workers — our neighbors, friends and family members.
Orlando Weekly
June 3, 2024
The Economic Policy Institute says the minimum living wage is the income needed for a family of one adult and one child to have a modest but adequate standard of living in the most affordable metro area.
FOX 10 Phoenix
June 3, 2024
Nevertheless, the idea that the Senate would act on Ditelberg’s nomination without McFerran is a complete nonstarter under current leadership, said Celine McNicholas, general counsel and director of policy and governmental affairs at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
“The last time I checked, Democrats have the majority in the Senate,” said McNicholas, an NLRB official during the Obama administration.
Bloomberg Law
June 3, 2024
In fact, it increased again in the US for low-wage women, moving from 20.3% to 22.2% between 2019 and 2022, as cited by The Economic Policy Institute.
Forbes
June 3, 2024
“A lot of people just didn’t really know much about unions,” Knecht said. “So, it came down more to educating people on the unionizing process and how they work for us. Once you’ve kind of explained those things, people are on board.”
One way of educating was showing Economic Policy Institute statistics to coworkers that demonstrated the benefits of unionizing, Brown said.
NBC4i
June 3, 2024
The nationwide shortage of school bus drivers has left many students without reliable transportation. In 2023, the number of bus drivers nationwide in K-12 schools dropped to about 192,400, down 15.1% since 2019, according to research by the Economic Policy Institute.
CBS News
June 3, 2024
The cost of childcare in the Bay State is among the highest nationwide, running $15,095 a year for 4-year-olds, or $1,743 a month, according to 2023 data compiled by the Economic Policy Institute. The Bay State is ranked second out of the 50 states and the District of Columbia for the most expensive infant care, that same analysis showed.
Mass Live
June 3, 2024
The federal minimum wage — $7.25 an hour — has remained unchanged since 2009.
That’s the longest period in history without an increase from Congress, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank.
The minimum wage has lost 29% of its value since 2009 after accounting for the rising cost of living, according to an EPI analysis. It’s worth less than at any point since February 1956, the group found.
CNBC
June 3, 2024
The practice of labor law violations in countering unionization is so widespread that the Economic Policy Institute found in 2019 that “Employers are charged with violating federal law in 41.5 percent of all union election campaigns.” Given that these are officially deemed violations that have gone through the process of reporting and adjudicating, the number is likely an underestimate.
In These Times
June 3, 2024
Ismael Cid-Martinez, an economist with the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, said the aftereffects have been evident. Fewer parents say they can come up with $400 in an emergency, and they report more instances of food insufficiency.
After 2021, Cid-Martinez said, “parents’ savings began to dwindle.”
Another key pandemic program provided increased financial support to child care centers. That support, too, has ended without being reinstated.
NBC News
June 3, 2024