Researchers with the the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute said last month that, at that time, at least 16 states had together devoted about $15.7 billion of American Rescue Plan Act funding for their unemployment insurance trust funds and that this came after 23 states used pandemic aid from the earlier CARES Act for the funds.
Route Fifty
December 22, 2021
In his closing commentary, Mark Krikorian, the Center’s executive director and host of Parsing Immigration Policy, discusses a new report from the Economic Policy Institute that describes how one of the big Indian tech staffing firms cheated its own Indian H-1B employees by an estimated $95 million. Far from being an abuse of the system, Krikorian pointed out that the H-1B visa is designed to exploit foreign workers and undercut American workers.
Center for Immigration Studies
December 22, 2021
The Economic Policy Institute says the documents shoe HCL systematically underpays its workers as a business strategy (paywall).
Law360
December 22, 2021
A report by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute shows the top 0.1% got the biggest raise in 2020.
Business Insider
December 22, 2021
Real disposable income is “resources that households have after the tax and transfers systems come into play,” said Josh Bivens, director of research at the Economic Policy Institute. “It’s a not-terrible bottom-line measure of how people are doing on average.”
The Hill
December 22, 2021
According to the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank based in Washington, D.C., the cost of living for a two-parent, two-child family in Mecklenburg County, NC is $92,400 per year.
WCNC Charlotte
December 22, 2021
Increases in average wages are often lopsided toward the rich, if history is any evidence. An analysis of new federal data by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) found that wages for the top 1 percent of earners grew much faster than the bottom 90 percent of earners in 2020, reflecting a trend going back four decades.
Truthout
December 22, 2021
Unemployment benefits, and recent supplements and extensions, have long been blamed for current restaurant shortages. However, the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a non-profit think-tank based in Washington, D.C., had determined earlier this year that slow job growth had little to do with continued unemployment aid, but rather continued health concerns and an “outflow” of workers — primarily women — from employment due to caregiving concerns.
WGNTV
December 22, 2021
More than half of non-union, private-sector workers in the U.S. have signed agreements requiring legal claims to be brought in arbitration, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
Reuters
December 22, 2021
“There’s reason to feel confident that we’re on track” for pre-pandemic labor market health by the end of next year, Elise Gould, senior economist at the labor-oriented Economic Policy Institute, told me. “The pandemic continues to play a pretty significant role in what we’re seeing as the ebbs and flows of the labor market in general, but we’ve added over 6 million jobs this year, a recovery that’s much faster than we saw from the Great Recession.”
Los Angeles Times
December 22, 2021