“Every Democrat who voted against this $15 minimum wage amendment should face a primary challenger and be defeated,” said Lisa McCormick, who earned nearly 40 percent of the Democratic primary votes in her 2018 race for US Senate.
“Raising the minimum wage would amount to a significant reduction in the deficit, according to studies done by the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics and the Economic Policy Institute,” said McCormick. “Congress should end the crisis of starvation wages in America by raise the pay of America’s poorest workers to a living wage of at least $15 an hour.”
NJ Today
March 8, 2021
Durbin and Grassley cited a May 4, 2020 analysis by the Economic Policy Institute, saying “a majority of H-1B employers use the visa program to pay migrant workers below-market wages, and half of the top 30 H-1B employers use an outsourcing business model.”
“This is simply unacceptable and does not reflect how Congress intended the H-1B program to work.”
The American Bazaar
March 8, 2021
Caroline Hyde, Romaine Bostick & Joe Weisenthal bring the news and analysis you may have missed after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today’s show tackles dip buyers fuel the stock rebound and the jobs report Guests Today: Elise Gould of the Economic Policy Institute, Michael Purves of Tallbacken Capital Advisors. (Source: Bloomberg)
Bloomberg TV
March 8, 2021
David Cooper, a senior economic analyst at the Economic Policy Institute, a worker-focused policy group, said the momentum for an increase will continue.
“I think we’re going to continue to keep hearing about this, even if it’s not at the federal level,” he said.
Bloomberg Law
March 8, 2021
Claire Kovach, senior research analyst at Keystone Research Center and co-author of the report, said data from the Economic Policy Institute showed the increase would put the state on a path to creating a high-wage, high-productivity economy that helps all working Pennsylvanians.
Keystone State News Connection
March 8, 2021
Without a meaningful union presence in American life, our gap between the rich and everyone else has reached levels unimaginable a half-century ago. CEO pay at major corporations, the Economic Policy Institute points out, has soared a stunning 1,167 percent since 1978. Over that same four decades, typical worker compensation has inched up a microscopic 13.7 percent, on average just a fraction of 1 percent per year.
Inequality.org
March 8, 2021
According to the Economic Policy Institute, Black folks have been leaded the unemployment rates since the start of the pandemic. They noted that “in the first quarter of 2020, African American workers had the highest unemployment rate nationally, at 6.3%, following by Hispanic workers (at 4.8%), white workers (at 3.1%), and Asian workers (at 2.9%).” The states with the highest unemployment rates in 2020 were District of Columbia at 11.3%, followed by Pennsylvania at 10.2%, Louisiana at 10.0%, and Mississippi at 9.1%.
MadameNoire
March 8, 2021
An August report from left-leaning think tank Economic Policy Institute (EPI) highlighted the benefits that unions could bring to workers during the pandemic. For instance, they found that 94% of workers that are covered by a union contract have access to “employer-sponsored health benefits;” that’s the case for only 68% of nonunion workers.
“Meghan Markle illustrated the importance of unions and the crucial support they provide workers. When working people join a union, they have a voice on the job and the ability to collectively bargain for wages, benefits, and working conditions,” EPI policy associate Margaret Poydock said in a statement. “When unions are strong, they set wage standards for entire industries and occupations, they make wages more equal within occupations, and they help close racial and gender wage gaps.”
Business Insider
March 8, 2021
According to congressional testimony from the Economic Policy Institute last month, “Due to the impacts of structural racism and sexism, women and Black and Hispanic men are concentrated in low-wage jobs” and would greatly benefit from a higher minimum wage.
The Washington Informer
March 8, 2021
Kayla Blado will join the NLRB as press secretary later this month. She currently handles press for the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, and serves as president of the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union.
Bloomberg Law
March 8, 2021