Abruzzo’s proposal goes further than any of her modern predecessors. Such meetings have been considered legal under board precedent since the 1940s, and have since become a common employer tool to dissuade workers from joining a union. A 2009 study by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute found that 89% of businesses required employees to attend anti-union meetings during work hours.
Bloomberg Law
April 13, 2022
Monique Morrissey is an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning economic think tank. She says the postal service is important because leaving it to the private sector would mean many rural residents are left out of critical public services.
WDET
April 13, 2022
According to the Economic Policy Institute, worker productivity has increased to more than 61.8% from 1979-to 2020, while the Havard Business Review notes research of worker wages increasing only by 9% since 1970.
Fox 43
April 13, 2022
Studies show that if the overall unemployment rate drops low enough, “even those gaps start to erode a little bit,” said Josh Bivens, director of research at the Economic Policy Institute.
Marketplace
April 13, 2022
Research released by the Economic Policy Institute in February found that the number of people employed in public K-12 elementary and secondary schools fell by 4.7% between fall 2019 and fall 2021, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
ABC News
April 13, 2022
This important economic insight has come under attack by the Economic Policy Institute, a left-wing outfit. According to their research, wages and productivity kept pace with one another up until about 1980. But, between then and 2020, wages rose by about 14 percent, while productivity escalated by roughly 60 percent.
Foundation for Economic Education
April 13, 2022
One important fact to consider is that it’s entirely possible for our economy to slow down without actually falling into a recession. In fact, it might be a good sign if the economy does exactly that: slow down. Another economist who spoke to The New York Times argued exactly this point. Josh Bivens, the director of research at the Economic Policy Institute, said to the publication, “We have torn back toward normal at a really fast pace, and it would be unrealistic to think that could continue.”
Katie Couric Media
April 13, 2022
“Right now we’re about 1.6 million jobs below where we were in February 2020,” said Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute. She said the U.S. working-age population did grow during the pandemic.
Marketplace
April 13, 2022
“Unions also reduce racial disparities in wages and raise women’s wages, helping to counteract disparate labour market outcomes by race and gender that result from occupational segregation, discrimination, and other labour market inequities related to structural racism and sexism,” said a 2021 fact sheet from the U.S.-based Economic Policy Institute.
Toronto Star
April 13, 2022
Heidi Shierholz, president of the Economic Policy Institute and former chief economist at the Department of Labor under President Barack Obama, told Fortune the labor market has seen “mind-bogglingly fast and sustained growth” that is “totally unlike the Great Recession and its aftermath.”
Fortune
April 13, 2022