Since Takano introduced the 32-Hour Workweek Act in July, several groups, including the Economic Policy Institute and the Congressional Progressive Caucus, which has close to 100 members, have endorsed the measure, which would reduce the standard workweek by eight hours.
New York Times
March 25, 2022
The practice of a subminimum wage for tipped workers, which allows businesses to pay their workers US$2.13 an hour on the good-faith effort that tips will make up the difference, is flagged as well. “The enforcement of that is very, very sketchy,” Henderson noted. Wage theft affects 17 per cent of low-wage workers, according to an Economic Policy Institute report.
Bloomberg
March 25, 2022
Kyle K. Moore, an economist with the Economic Policy Institute’s Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy, put it this way: “Our current system has so many points of failure that you really have to address them on multiple levels.”
The Center for Public Integrity
March 25, 2022
Ron Hira is an associate professor of political science at Howard University. He is also a research associate with the Economic Policy Institute. He has written widely on high-skilled immigration, offshoring, and the decline of the middle class. Daniel Costa is an attorney and the director of immigration law and policy research at the Economic Policy Institute, and is a visiting scholar with the Global Migration Center at the University of California, Davis. He researches and writes about US and global labor migration.
Jacobin
March 25, 2022
There are various analyses of how many people earn less than $15 an hour. The left-leaning Economic Policy Institute last year that 22 million people would see a boost in pay if the federal minimum wage was raised to $15 an hour in 2025 under the Raise the Wage Act.
CNN
March 25, 2022
Instead of offering helpful tips, Teresa Ghilarducci, the author of the article who also happens to serve on the board of the leftist think tank the Economic Policy Institute, recommended that Americans who make less than $300,000 annually eat lentils and stop paying medical bills for beloved pets to deal with government-caused price hikes.
The Federalist
March 25, 2022
Ron Hira is an associate professor of political science at Howard University. He is also a research associate with the Economic Policy Institute. He has written widely on high-skilled immigration, offshoring, and the decline of the middle class. Daniel Costa is an attorney and the director of immigration law and policy research at the Economic Policy Institute, and is a visiting scholar with the Global Migration Center at the University of California, Davis. He researches and writes about US and global labor migration.
Jacobin
March 24, 2022
In return, cafeteria staff bring home some of the lowest earnings of the generally underpaid K–12 workforce. David Cooper, who directs the Economic Policy Institute’s Economic Analysis and Research Network, told Jacobin that his team estimates that school nutrition workers were paid an hourly median of $12.32 between 2014 and 2019, calculated in 2020 dollars.
Jacobin
March 18, 2022
Features Monique discussing USPS reform bill.
Free Speech TV
March 18, 2022