“As one remarkable survey released today by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) demonstrates, the number of workers in starvation-wage jobs still numbers in the many millions,” the American Prospect’s Harold Meyerson writes.
Washington Post
April 22, 2022
A new company wage tracker designed by the Economic Policy Institute and the Shift Project took a closer look at 66 of America’s biggest food and retail companies. Some of the results are staggering, and provide a striking window into what it’s like to work at some of the largest chains in America. Dollar General, for instance, pays 92 percent of their workers below $15. McDonald’s is at 89 percent. At both of these companies, more than 1 in 5 workers makes below $10 per hour. These are poverty wages, but they’re sadly the norm, especially in communities where these big chains have driven out other competitors.
Rolling Stone
April 22, 2022
Not much, according to a new company wage tracker created by the Economic Policy Institute and the Shift Project, a joint project by the Harvard Kennedy School and the University of California, San Francisco, using survey data collected from Facebook and Instagram users in 2021, with responses from over twenty thousand workers at sixty-six large service-sector firms and an average of 317 respondents per firm. The tracker finds that at many hugely profitable companies, the majority of workers are paid less than $15 an hour.
Jacobin
April 22, 2022
Some of the largest, most profitable companies in retail and food services are still paying most of their workers less than $15 an hour, and many still make less than $10 an hour, according to a new company wage tracker developed by the Economic Policy Institute and the Shift Project.
The Guardian
April 22, 2022
The vast majority of big food and retail corporations in the United States aren’t paying anywhere near a $15-anhour minimum wage, according to a new report from Harvard researchers and the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
VICE
April 22, 2022
Union efforts also deserve credit for challenging wealth inequality in the U.S. Research from the Economic Policy Institute shows that higher union membership has historically been associated with a lower share of income going to the top 10% of earners in the U.S.
The Badger Herald
April 22, 2022
Separately Monday, the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) in Washington, D.C., highlighted its recent report that found nearly two-thirds of Wisconsin corporations paid no state corporate income taxes.
Wisconsin Examiner
April 22, 2022
Except, as one remarkable survey released today by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) demonstrates, the number of workers in starvation-wage jobs still numbers in the many millions.
The American Prospect
April 22, 2022
During the pandemic, wages have trailed price increases, but some economists don’t expect that will necessarily lead to widespread raises, like in the 1970s. They point out workers don’t have the same kind of leverage they had in the 1970s. After 1989, labor costs stopped rising in tandem with prices, notes Josh Bivens at the Economic Policy Institute.
Quartz
April 22, 2022
On Tuesday, the Economic Policy Institute and Harvard’s Shift Project released a collaborative effort dubbed the Company Wage Tracker. It looks at 66 large retail and food corporations to show not only the hourly wages of workers within the United States, but also how much revenue they generate in the U.S. and what each corporation pays its CEOs.
Mic
April 22, 2022