One of the primary issues Apple retail workers are organizing around is pay. In the United States, unionized workers make about 13.2 percent more than their non-unionized peers in the same sector, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
The Verge
May 27, 2022
In fact, Farm Worker Justice calls the structure of the program “inherently flawed,” saying it “leads to a system that is rife with abuse of both foreign and domestic workers.” H-2A workers are often compensated poorly despite adverse working conditions. The Economic Policy Institute reported that, in 2020, holders of H-2A visas made a national average of $13.68 per hour. In states such as Florida and Georgia, where a quarter of all H-2A jobs are located, the pay was even lower, averaging $11.71 per hour.
Modern Farmer
May 27, 2022
Solving the US’s massive wealth gap could lead to a huge boost for economic growth, according to a new study from the Economic Policy Institute.
Business Insider
May 27, 2022
Heidi Shierholz, president of the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute think-tank, insisted Biden had shifted the paradigm of the labour market for the better. “We had graduating class after graduating class in the aftermath of the Great Recession for years entering into extremely weak labour markets. That has really lasting effects, and we’re not doing that to Generation Z. We made different choices and that is remarkable for workers,” she said.
Financial Times
May 27, 2022
“Other than maybe fuel and energy prices, I think we’ll see a deceleration of inflation,” said Larry Mishel, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, in an interview before the report’s release. “How much, how quickly and where it will be is hard to judge.”
The Washington Post
May 27, 2022
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Heidi Shierholz, president of the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute think-tank, insisted Biden had shifted the paradigm of the labour market for the better. “We had graduating class after graduating class in the aftermath of the Great Recession for years entering into extremely weak labour markets. That has really lasting effects, and we’re not doing that to Generation Z. We made different choices and that is remarkable for workers,” she said.
Financial Times
May 26, 2022
GUESTS
- Heidi Shierholz
Arthur B. Laffer
Munk Debates
May 20, 2022
Today, more than 90 percent of domestic workers are women, and over half of them are Black, Hispanic, or Asian American/Pacific Islander women, according to a 2020 report published by the Economic Policy Institute. They tend to be older than those in other professions and are three times as likely to be living in poverty or just above the poverty line, a circumstance only made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic. All of them are excluded from federal laws establishing basic workers’ rights.
Harper's Bazaar
May 20, 2022
A 2019 report by the Economic Policy Institute noted that “a lack of sufficient, qualified teachers threatens students’ ability to learn” and that “instability in a school’s teacher workforce (i.e., high turnover and/or high attrition) negatively affects student achievement and diminishes teacher effectiveness and quality.”
Colorado Sun
May 20, 2022