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
Reduced working hours have long been a demand from labor; unions won reductions from six days a week to five in the early 20th century, and the US Fair Labor Standards Act enshrined the 40-hour workweek in law in 1938. But while productivity has shot up roughly threefold since then, pay has risen by only about half that amount, according to the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute. The length of the workweek has stayed largely the same.
WIRED
February 4, 2022
The three nominees “having better qualifications than dozens of past nominees and eventual board governors,” the Economic Policy Institute’s Josh Bivens wrote last week, proved no buffer to resistance from the fossil fuel sector and Republicans. He said that “organized opposition… mostly settled into a focus on Cook and Raskin.
Common Dreams
February 4, 2022
The Economic Policy Institute’s Elise Gould said on Twitter: “The hires rate remains higher than the quits rate in every major industry. This indicates that when workers quit, they are taking other jobs-likely in the same sector-not dropping out of the labor force altogether.”
Business Insider
February 4, 2022
The Obama Labor Department tried to fix all this. It made a practical decision to leave intact the dog’s breakfast that Bush had made of the duties test but doubled the wage ceiling from $23,660 to $47,476. If you earned less than $47,476, it didn’t matter what your boss said your duties were, he owed you overtime whenever you worked more than 40 hours. In future years the ceiling would be “indexed” to inflation, thereby preventing another post-1975 slide. The Obama rule expanded overtime coverage from 7 percent of workers to 23 percent, according to calculations by the Economic Policy Institute.
The New Republic
February 4, 2022