The Economic Policy Institute has also found that “consumers obtain relief regarding their claims in only 9 percent of disputes. On the other hand, when companies make claims or counterclaims, arbitrators grant them relief 93 percent of the time—meaning they order the consumer to pay.”
The Regulatory Review
April 1, 2022
New York is not a right-to-work state, and Amazon is attempting to use that to its advantage. The company is telling workers it could fire them should they unionize but fail to pay union dues. But that requirement is not an across-the board mandate for non-right-to-work states and is something that is negotiated during union contracts, said Jennifer Sherer, senior state policy coordinator at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
Associated Press
April 1, 2022
And even where younger women have reached parity, it doesn’t last. “The gender wage gap grows as workers age,” said Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute.
Marketplace
April 1, 2022
As the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) points out, nearly a third of state and local government workers are paid less than $20 an hour, and more than 15% of them are paid less than $15 an hour. These low wages impact workers who were considered “essential” during the pandemic and include child care workers and home care providers, workers in cleaning and maintenance occupations, office and administrative support workers, teaching assistants and more.
AFSCME
April 1, 2022
“This is the one tax that may be salient enough for corporations to change their pricing behavior,” said Josh Bivens, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank. “If you had excess profits tax, firms would say, ‘I could raise prices a ton, but those profits will be taxed away, so I’ll just keep prices low.’ ”
The Washington Post
April 1, 2022
“There are some people who are doing OK through all of this. I’m doing OK — I don’t need a tax break on my groceries,” Josh Bivens, director of research at the Economic Policy Institute, tells Axios. “That’s money that can be better directed to people who are suffering.
Axios
April 1, 2022
“When inflation is not a problem, then it’s much easier to say, ‘We’re going to maximize employment and see how far we can take this,’ ” said Valerie Wilson, director of the Economic Policy Institute’s program on race, ethnicity and the economy. “But with inflation in the mix, they’re in a position now where they can’t really ignore that.”
Associated Press
April 1, 2022
“Overall employment is now just 1% from its pre-pandemic level,” Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, tweeted. “Private-sector jobs record strong gains rising 426,000 in March with notable jobs added in leisure and hospitality, professional and business services, and retail trade. Public-sector employment still slow to return.”
U.S. News & World Report
April 1, 2022
Harris was former acting and deputy labor secretary during the Obama administration, and in a 2015 paper on the gig economy, he called for a new “independent worker” classification for on-demand app workers. These “independent workers” wouldn’t be independent contractors or employees, and would qualify for collective bargaining rights but not hours-based benefits, including overtime or minimum wages—a proposal that drew criticism from the AFL-CIO and the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
Bloomberg Law
April 1, 2022