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Heidi Shierholz, president of the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute think-tank, insisted Biden had shifted the paradigm of the labour market for the better. “We had graduating class after graduating class in the aftermath of the Great Recession for years entering into extremely weak labour markets. That has really lasting effects, and we’re not doing that to Generation Z. We made different choices and that is remarkable for workers,” she said.
Financial Times
May 26, 2022
GUESTS
- Heidi Shierholz
Arthur B. Laffer
Munk Debates
May 20, 2022
Today, more than 90 percent of domestic workers are women, and over half of them are Black, Hispanic, or Asian American/Pacific Islander women, according to a 2020 report published by the Economic Policy Institute. They tend to be older than those in other professions and are three times as likely to be living in poverty or just above the poverty line, a circumstance only made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic. All of them are excluded from federal laws establishing basic workers’ rights.
Harper's Bazaar
May 20, 2022
A 2019 report by the Economic Policy Institute noted that “a lack of sufficient, qualified teachers threatens students’ ability to learn” and that “instability in a school’s teacher workforce (i.e., high turnover and/or high attrition) negatively affects student achievement and diminishes teacher effectiveness and quality.”
Colorado Sun
May 20, 2022
Research from the Economic Policy Institute has found that “unions improve wages and benefits for all workers, not just union members. They help reduce income inequality by making sure all Americans, and not just the wealthy elite, share in the benefits of their labor”.
The Independent
May 20, 2022
Mandatory arbitration is more common in industries dominated by female and Black workers, according to a 2018 report from the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank.
Fast Company
May 20, 2022
“I don’t think these things like meditation or whatever employers may be doing to increase well-being are bad initiatives,” said Heidi Shierholz, president of the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank. “But they do not substitute for decent wages, decent benefits, sane scheduling.”
New York Times
May 20, 2022
In April, the unemployment rate in the U.S. stood at 3.2% for white Americans and 5.9% for Black Americans.
“The ongoing COVID-19 crisis continues to highlight the many layers of racial inequality in the U.S. labor market,” Valerie Wilson, director of the Economic Policy Institute’s Program on Race, Ethnicity & the Economy, told a congressional committee in January.
“In contrast to the nearly uniform rise in unemployment rates between February and April 2020, since that time, the white unemployment rate has fallen fastest,” she said.
Crain’s Chicago Business
May 20, 2022
This story was first posted at Economic Policy Institute.
A leaked draft of a majority opinion authored by Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito strongly suggests that the court will rule to overturn Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the two landmark cases that have upheld the right to an abortion nationwide for the last half century. If the final ruling largely follows what is sketched out in the leaked draft, abortion services will be drastically curtailed, if not outright banned, in over half the country.
In These Times
May 20, 2022
The benefit of unions is clear. According to a recent Economic Policy Institute report, “union workers are paid 11.2% more and have greater access to …(paywall).
Detroit News
May 20, 2022
Terri Gerstein is the director of the State and Local Enforcement Project at the Harvard Labor and Worklife Program and a senior fellow at the Economic Policy Institute. She was previously the Labor Bureau chief in the New York State Attorney General’s Office.
NBC Think
May 20, 2022
They cited a study from the Economic Policy Institute, a left-wing think-tank, … (paywall).
The Economist
May 20, 2022
“Corporate boards running America’s largest public firms are giving top executives outsize compensation packages that have grown much faster than the stock market and the pay of typical workers, college graduates, and even the top 0.1%,” the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute said in a report last August.
The Street
May 20, 2022
They all spoke about the importance of equity while acknowledging the systemic challenges they’ve faced in that pursuit. The Economic Policy Institute, and other sources tracking job data, say Black unemployment in California remains higher than the statewide average. At the state level, the California Labor & Workforce Development Agency wants regional offices to maintain some independence to help encourage participation from the Black community.
EurWeb
May 20, 2022
According to the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank, a family of four – two adults and two children – can expect to pay an estimated $15,031 on housing in 2022. This amount varies across the country, however, from state to state and city to city.
The Center Square
May 20, 2022
Forces on both sides worked around the clock to pressure the administration. When the liberal Economic Policy Institute heard that the Labor Department was considering only modest increases to the salary threshold, Ross Eisenbrey, a vice president at EPI, told The Washington Post, “We raised a ruckus.” The Labor Department agreed to raise it higher.
Fast Company
May 20, 2022
To find 20 companies that pay workers less than $10 an hour, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed wage data from the Company Wage Tracker, a collaboration between the nonprofit economic think tank Economic Policy Institute and The Shift Project, an hourly service workers data project created by University of California professors. We listed the 20 companies that pay at least 10% of their employees less than $10 an hour. All other data is from the Company Wage Tracker.
24/7 Wall St.
May 20, 2022
But as Salon reported back in April, many experts have told a different story, citing corporate consolidation, corporate profiteering, and deregulation as chief reasons for price increases across the board. “You don’t see any correlation between inflation and the generosity of fiscal relief. Inflation is up everywhere, regardless of whether countries were stingy or generous,” Josh Bivens, Director of Research at the Economic Policy Institute, told Salon at the time.
Salon
May 20, 2022
Still, Squires and his fellow dancers said that though year-round pay represents big progress for ODC, it’s just a step. The dancers now make $62,400 per year, the city’s minimum for full-time exempt employees. But the Economic Policy Institute, using 2020 dollar values, calculates the salary needed for a single adult to attain a “modest yet adequate standard of living” in the city to be $70,016.
San Francisco Chronicle
May 20, 2022
A 2017 study from the Economic Policy Institute estimated that employers steal more than $15 billion each year from U.S. workers’ paychecks through minimum wage violations.
Sacramento Bee
May 20, 2022
Teresa Ghilarducci is the Schwartz Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research. She’s the co-author of “Rescuing Retirement” and a member of the board of directors of the Economic Policy Institute.
Bloomberg
May 20, 2022
America is woefully behind when it comes to guaranteeing workers the benefits they deserve. As one example, America is the only modern nation that fails to guarantee its workers paid sick time. In fact,184 nations around the world guarantee workers paid sick time—but not America. According to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), only 64% of private-sector American workers have paid sick time.
Delaware Online
May 20, 2022
Josh Bivens, director of research at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, argues that profit margins account for the bulk of inflation. Overall prices in the nonfinancial corporate sector climbed at an annualized rate of 6.1% from the second quarter of 2020 to the end of 2021, he calculates. Some 53.9% of that can be attributed to profit margins, with less than 8% from labor costs, he says.
Bloomberg
May 20, 2022
“What you’ll find is that no matter how you measure it, a pay gap exists,” said Elise Gould, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank. “It has a huge impact on lifetime earnings.”
CNBC
May 20, 2022
The cost of extending UI benefits to hourly workers would be $28 million per year according to the Economic Policy Institute—a little over 1% of the $2.7 billion spent to refill the trust fund. At that rate, the $162 million upfront allocation requested would last more than five years. It would be a small price to pay to make these essential occupations more manageable for the Minnesotans who fill them. And with the surplus on hand, the state could easily afford to cover the cost on behalf of school districts indefinitely.
Minnesota Reformer
May 20, 2022
GUESTS
- Heidi Shierholz
Arthur B. Laffer
Munk Debates
May 20, 2022
Today, more than 90 percent of domestic workers are women, and over half of them are Black, Hispanic, or Asian American/Pacific Islander women, according to a 2020 report published by the Economic Policy Institute. They tend to be older than those in other professions and are three times as likely to be living in poverty or just above the poverty line, a circumstance only made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic. All of them are excluded from federal laws establishing basic workers’ rights.
Harper's Bazaar
May 20, 2022
A 2019 report by the Economic Policy Institute noted that “a lack of sufficient, qualified teachers threatens students’ ability to learn” and that “instability in a school’s teacher workforce (i.e., high turnover and/or high attrition) negatively affects student achievement and diminishes teacher effectiveness and quality.”
Colorado Sun
May 20, 2022
Research from the Economic Policy Institute has found that “unions improve wages and benefits for all workers, not just union members. They help reduce income inequality by making sure all Americans, and not just the wealthy elite, share in the benefits of their labor”.
The Independent
May 20, 2022