But labor advocates say there is scant evidence to support such a grim forecast. At a recent hearing, EPI director of immigration law and policy research Daniel Costa pointed to the impact of making farmworkers in California eligible for overtime to encourage the establishment of similar protections in New York. There is “virtually no credible evidence” that overtime pay for farmworkers “will hurt the industry or slash profits dramatically,” Costa testified.
Capital and Main
May 27, 2022
According to analysis from the Economic Policy Institute, nearly 54% of the recent inflationary price hikes that Americans are paying have gone toward corporate profits. And people have started to notice: In February, a poll from Data for Progress showed that 63% of respondents have come to the conclusion that “large corporations are taking advantage of the pandemic to raise prices unfairly on consumers and increase profits.”
Business Insider
May 27, 2022
Strengthening banks that serve Black Americans is just one part of the equation to solving the racial wealth gap, Valerie Wilson of Economic Policy Institute, an independent think tank, said. The other parts include raising pay, especially in low-wage sectors, improving diversity within the banking system to better serve nonwhite customers, and continuing to support Black-owned businesses as well as historically Black colleges and universities, Wilson and multiple Black bank CEOs said.
Business Insider
May 27, 2022
At about $720 per month, the cost of infant care for one child in New Mexico is equal to 18.3% of the median family’s income, according to data from the Economic Policy Institute. That’s almost triple the 7% of income that the US Department of Health and Human Services considers the threshold for affordability. By that measure, only about 1 in 10 New Mexico families can shoulder the cost without government assistance.
Bloomberg
May 27, 2022
Gary Gerstle is an historian, Bob Kuttner is an economist and journalist and Valerie Wilson is an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. In these wide ranging discussions, we will explore not just neoliberalism’s growth and impact, but the avenues for challenging its command over our lives.
Capital and Main
May 27, 2022
For example: absent from Bezos’s inflation analysis, Rampell’s columns, and other Post editorial diatribes is data from the Economic Policy Institute showing that more than half of the price increases Americans have seen in the past two years can be attributed to larger corporate profit margins.
Jacobin
May 27, 2022
The Economic Policy Institute attributes falling union rates to labor laws — such as allowing companies to make anti-union meetings mandatory — that are “tilted” toward employers. Jennifer Abruzzo, the general counsel for the National Relations Board, wants to end this precedent.
Business Insider
May 27, 2022
Meanwhile, the national private-sector workforce has grown; according to another study by the Economic Policy Institute, between 2006 and 2019, the number of workers per NLRB staff increased by 50 percent, from one full-time employee per 74,809 workers to one full-time employee per 112,201 workers. Declines in staffing have been followed by a decrease in case numbers.
Nonprofit Quarterly
May 27, 2022
Cites Unequal Power event on suppression of free speech. (paywall).
Law360
May 27, 2022
… being forced to retain employees of another political party, … for the Worker Power program at the Economic Policy Institute,…(paywall).
Sacramento Bee
May 27, 2022