The left-leaning Economic Policy Institute also criticized the study, suggesting that the data and methodology couldn’t distinguish between the effects of wage increases and other factors. It called the estimated job loss “implausibly large and well outside the range of existing research on the minimum wage.”
Minneapolis Star Tribune
November 12, 2021
Cites EPI study on CEO pay.
The Intercept
November 12, 2021
While business owners have been a strong focus in discussions of equity, workers can’t be left out, advocates say.
“In the most recent federal proposals, every single one of them has this explicit and worthwhile focus on equity for entrepreneurs and giving formerly incarcerated folks privileged access…to get into the business but no one has really said anything about standards to ensure cannabis jobs are good jobs,” says David Cooper, senior economic analyst at the think tank Economic Policy Institute.
That’s a problem because “the vast majority of people that are going to interact with this industry in terms of their career are going to be folks working rank-and-file,” Cooper says.
Cooper co-authored a report published in September exploring the importance of protecting job quality and workers’ collective bargaining rights in cannabis.
Santa Fe Reporter
November 12, 2021
Unionized workers during the pandemic have been able to secure enhanced safety measures, premium pay, and a say in the terms of any future furloughs or workshare arrangements, according to a report published last year by the Economic Policy Institute.
Workers covered by a union contract also earn on average 11.2 percent more in wages than their non-unionized peers in the same industry and with similar education and experience, the report found.
The Hill
November 12, 2021
“Health and safety concerns are still number one on people’s minds,” Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, told Yahoo Money. “More and more jobs are requiring showing up in person. That is still a major concern for many people who may live with vulnerable family members or have concerns about their own health.”
Yahoo Finance
November 12, 2021
Pelosi ought to be organizing economic history seminars for her caucus with people like Cecilia Rouse, Heather Boushey, and Jared Bernstein of the Council of Economic Advisers, and outside experts like Damon Silvers of the AFL-CIO and Heidi Shierholz of the Economic Policy Institute, and a whole bunch of people who can make sure that House Democrats know this history.
New Republic
November 12, 2021
More than half of all workers who vote to form a union are still without a collective bargaining agreement a year later, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank.
Associated Press
November 12, 2021
“With these welcome gains on top of significant improvements early in the summer, the recovery appears to be getting back on track,” said Elise Gould, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute. “That said, significant job shortfalls remain, especially in leisure and hospitality as well as both private and public sector education employment.”
Sinclair Broadcast Group
November 12, 2021
”These are all policies that go straight at the problems that both workers and employers are confronting in the labor market today, and I think that’s something that lawmakers in Maine and throughout the country should really take note of,” said David Cooper, Economic Policy Institute.
Central Maine
November 12, 2021
Nationally, one in six Latino workers and one in five Black workers were able to work from home, compared with one in four white workers, according to David Cooper, director of the left-leaning, Washington, D.C.-based Economic Policy Institute’s Economic Analysis and Research Network.
Portland Press Herald
November 12, 2021