NEW YORK — Workers earning minimum wage in more than two dozen states can expect a raise in 2022. According to the Economic Policy Institute, the following states and Washington, D.C. are set to raise their minimum wage at various points through the new year:
ABC 7 News
January 7, 2022
The Economic Policy Institute reports most of American workers’ earnings growth since 1979 has gone to the top earners; the top 1 percent wage grew 179% since 1979, while wages for the bottom 90 percent grew only 28%.
Forbes
January 7, 2022
“What we’ve seen over the last four and a half decades is just huge erosion of worker leverage in a way that’s led to just incredibly low job quality for huge swaths of our labor market: low wages, low benefits, bad hours, bad working conditions,” according to Heidi Shierholz, director of policy at Economic Policy Institute and former chief economist at the U.S. Labor Department. She goes on to say, “we know that the quality of these [independent] jobs they say they’re choosing are often just incredibly bad, and that means their other [traditional] choices are really, really bad.”
Employee Benefit News
January 7, 2022
More workers were hired in November than those that quit, suggesting restaurant employees are finding better opportunities at other jobs within the industry, according to Elise Gould, a senior economist with Economic Policy Institute.
QSR Magazine
January 7, 2022
And Josh Bivens, director of research at the Economic Policy Institute says that as workers notice their paychecks are not going as far as they used to due to inflation, they should be motivated to have that potentially difficult raise conversation with their employer.
CNBC
January 7, 2022
But Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economics Policy Institute, chooses to accentuate the positive. “Hires are on an upswing as quits continue to rise,” tweets Gould. “Workers appear confident to quit their jobs in search of better ones.”
Reuters
January 7, 2022
“Quits are happening in the most unlikely categories based on who has been winners in this economy in the past,” said Heidi Shierholz, the president of the Economic Policy Institute and a former chief economist at the Labor Department.
The New York Times
January 7, 2022
The bottom line: “It’s not understood in the broader public discussion, people aren’t quitting their jobs to leave the labor force they are quitting their jobs to take other jobs,” said Heidi Shierholz, president of the progressive Economic Policy Institute.
Axios
January 7, 2022
Even as 4.5 million people quit, businesses hired 6.7 million workers, tweeted Heidi Shierholz, the former chief economist at the Labor Department and now president of Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank.
CBS
January 7, 2022
That’s often how economic recoveries go, per David Cooper at the Economic Policy Institute.
“It’s this bounce-back effect, that the places that were hit the hardest are going to be the ones that we’re going to be seeing the strongest growth, because they fell the most, so they have the most to gain,” he said.
Marketplace
January 7, 2022