Robert E. Scott is a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI).
The Hill
January 21, 2022
At the same time, unions raise costs for the growers. A 2020 report by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute found that a 40% pay raise for farmworkers would cost $25 per consumer household. And growers consistently cite labor costs as a key challenge.
CalMatters
January 21, 2022
Even before the pandemic “many parents struggled with finding affordable, high quality childcare,” said Elise Gould, senior economist with the Economic Policy Institute, adding that “parents, particularly women, oftentimes left the labor force” because of a lack of childcare. “Omicron has exacerbated that.”
CNN Business
January 20, 2022
Far from unique, the situation faced by the TikToker is one immediately recognizable to many Americans. According to a study by the Economic Policy Institute in 2015, about 17 percent of the U.S. workforce deals with “unstable work shift schedules.”
Newsweek
January 20, 2022
Far from unique, the situation faced by the TikToker is one immediately recognizable to many Americans. According to a study by the Economic Policy Institute in 2015, about 17 percent of the U.S. workforce deals with “unstable work shift schedules.”
Newsweek
January 20, 2022
Far from unique, the situation faced by the TikToker is one immediately recognizable to many Americans. According to a study by the Economic Policy Institute in 2015, about 17 percent of the U.S. workforce deals with “unstable work shift schedules.”
Newsweek
January 20, 2022
Far from unique, the situation faced by the TikToker is one immediately recognizable to many Americans. According to a study by the Economic Policy Institute in 2015, about 17 percent of the U.S. workforce deals with “unstable work shift schedules.”
Newsweek
January 20, 2022
Far from unique, the situation faced by the TikToker is one immediately recognizable to many Americans. According to a study by the Economic Policy Institute in 2015, about 17 percent of the U.S. workforce deals with “unstable work shift schedules.”
Newsweek
January 20, 2022
“It’s not that the industry is becoming smaller month after month,” said Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. “Some people are switching and trying to find a better match in that field.”
StarTribune
January 14, 2022
Only a handful of states, including California and Washington, have granted farmworkers the right to overtime pay. In the Golden State, agricultural industry experts had predicted the pay would bankrupt farms. However, the number of businesses in the state actually increased during the state’s rollout that began in 2016. “If it can work here, it can work anywhere,” said Daniel Costa, director of immigration law and policy research at the Economic Policy Institute
Los Angeles Times
January 14, 2022