In addition, the Economic Policy Institute reported that many companies have sunk money — $340 million in 2019 alone — into programs and consultants that use union-suppressing tactics.
New Jersey Herald
September 23, 2024
We surveyed nine areas that, according to the Economic Policy Institute, have a lower cost of living, to measure the price of an acrylic gel manicure.
The Wall Street Journal
September 23, 2024
Automotive News
September 23, 2024
Democrats, unions, and the Biden administration say that such agreements lead to fewer disruptions to federal projects, and lead to better outcomes for the communities where the projects are located, because they allow for negotiating higher wages and benefits, child care opportunities, and job training.
“Through President Biden’s executive order on project labor agreements, the federal government is promoting effective mechanisms for controlling costs, ensuring efficient completion of projects, and establishing fair wages and benefits for all workers on those projects,” said Margaret Poydock, a senior policy analyst at the Economic Policy Institute.
Bloomberg Law
September 23, 2024
Chief executive officers at the largest companies in the United States saw their compensation surge by 1,085% from 1978 to 2023, compared with only a 24% increase for typical worker pay, according to an annual report published Thursday.
The Economic Policy Insitute (EPI) analysis focuses on the 350 largest publicly owned U.S. firms by revenue.
Common Dreams
September 23, 2024
Features interview with Kyle on Harris/Trump economic policies.
BS-TBS "Hodo (Report) 1930" (Japan)
September 23, 2024
If American voters regard the U.S. economy to be a factor in the 2024 presidential election, it may be instructive to consider just how the two parties stack up, especially in a historical sense.
In April, the Economic Policy Institute released the results of a study comparing the performance of the economy under Democratic and Republican presidential administrations. It concluded that, since 1949:
Lancaster Online
September 23, 2024
The document is also full of numerous labor-related ideas long espoused by the Republican Party, including many that bubbled up during the Trump administration. Even so, the laundry list of priorities would harm large numbers of workers if enacted, experts said. It’s still “shocking when you look at it compiled in its entirety,” said Lynn Rhinehart, senior fellow at the Economic Policy Institute. “It’s not new, but it is radical.”
Below is a list of 10 proposals from Project 2025 that labor experts say will harm working people.
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There’s already some indication of what they might try to do. Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee have all passed laws banning employers who voluntarily recognize unions from receiving state economic development funds. (Those laws could be struck down by a court because they are preempted by federal labor law, said Jennifer Sherer, acting director of the Economic Analysis and Research Network.) Since 2021, 31 states have introduced bills to weaken federal child labor laws. Five states don’t even have a minimum wage, while two have lower wages than $7.25 an hour, so the federal standard is the only way workers in those states are guaranteed at least $7.25 an hour.
Capital & Main
September 23, 2024
The current effective federal funds rate sits between 5.25% and 5.5%, according to the Economic Policy Institute. To put that number in perspective, the rate was between 1.5% and 1.75% in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
GO Banking Rates
September 23, 2024
Teachers in the U.S. are earning less money compared to similar professions than ever before, according to a report written by Sylvia Allegretto, a senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research and research associate at the Economic Policy Institute, think tanks based in Washington, DC. The report found that, in 2023, teachers on average earned 73.4 cents for every dollar relative to the earnings of “similar professionals,” far less than the 93.6 cents they made in 1996.
Salon
September 23, 2024