Features Elise discussing the latest jobs report.
Hearst TV
February 11, 2022
Features Elise discussing the latest jobs report.
Hearst TV
February 11, 2022
Meanwhile, a new report released recently by the Economic Policy Institute that interprets data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics suggests two reasons for why school support jobs are not rebounding: the first being that workers in those roles tend to skew older—50.4% of cafeteria workers are 50 and over—and are therefore more likely to have serious COVID-19-related health concerns, and support staff wages in public K-12 schools are below industry standards, as the median weekly wage for cafeteria workers between 2014 and 2019 was $331, while the average American worker earned $790.
Food Management
February 11, 2022
Meanwhile, a new report released recently by the Economic Policy Institute that interprets data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics suggests two reasons for why school support jobs are not rebounding: the first being that workers in those roles tend to skew older—50.4% of cafeteria workers are 50 and over—and are therefore more likely to have serious COVID-19-related health concerns, and support staff wages in public K-12 schools are below industry standards, as the median weekly wage for cafeteria workers between 2014 and 2019 was $331, while the average American worker earned $790.
Food Management
February 11, 2022
In a comment filed with the NLRB this week, the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute criticized the Uber advice memo. Those drivers don’t have actual entrepreneurial opportunity because they can’t develop markets, set prices, or determine routes, EPI said.
Bloomberg Law
February 11, 2022
According to an analysis of DOL data by the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank, DOL’s Wage and Hour Division recovered $257.8 million in back wages for workers in fiscal year 2020, $322.5 million in fiscal year 2019, $304.9 in fiscal year 2018 and $270.4 million in fiscal year 2017. More than 1 million workers received recovered wages during this period, with an average of more than $1,000 per worker.
The Grio
February 11, 2022
According to an analysis of DOL data by the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank, DOL’s Wage and Hour Division recovered $257.8 million in back wages for workers in fiscal year 2020, $322.5 million in fiscal year 2019, $304.9 in fiscal year 2018 and $270.4 million in fiscal year 2017. More than 1 million workers received recovered wages during this period, with an average of more than $1,000 per worker.
The Grio
February 11, 2022
Cites EPI graph on arbitration and litigation.
VOX
February 10, 2022
“Our models were all wrong,” says former Labor Department Chief Economist Heidi Shierholz.
Bloomberg TV
February 10, 2022