As the Economic Policy Institute has explained, these restrictions were strikingly effective. In 1964, for instance, only 22.5 percent of Black Americans living in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina were registered to vote; the situation was particularly dire in Mississippi, where nearly 95 percent of white Americans were registered to vote, but only 5.1 percent of Black residents were.
VOX
March 25, 2021
However, some research points to the opposite result: An analysis from the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute found that one fair wage states have actually had more restaurant growth than other states, with both the number of full-service restaurants and people employed in them growing.
Business Insider
March 25, 2021
Not only was there an unequal wealth distribution in 2020, but recovery amid the pandemic seems to also be unequal when looking at recovery by race and ethnicity. The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) analyzed data from the last two quarters of 2020 to see how unemployment rates differed by race and ethnicity around the nation.
“While unemployment rates fell for all groups over the third and fourth quarters, Hispanic unemployment remained 60% higher than white unemployment, while Black unemployment rose from 60% higher to 90% higher,” EPI wrote.
Business Insider
March 25, 2021
At the same time, the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, called on the administration to continue the duties. It hosted a call with representatives of United Steelworkers union and said that the duties helped boost output and create thousands of jobs. The industry is concentrated in politically sensitive swing states including Michigan, Ohio and Indiana.
Bloomberg
March 25, 2021
United Steelworkers (USW) International President Tom Conway issued the following statement in response to today’s Economic Policy Institute (EPI) report on the continuing need for Section 232 relief:
United Steelworkers
March 25, 2021
A recent report from the Economic Policy Institute on farm labor enforcement trends over the past 20 years found that more than 70% of federal labor standards investigations of farms conducted by the department’s Wage and Hour Division detected violations — “things like wage theft and inadequate housing, as well as other violations of laws designed to protect farmworkers.”
In addition, about 11% of WHD agricultural investigations found violations of H-2A regulations.
Agri-Pulse
March 24, 2021
Features interview with Heidi Shierholz.
Washington Post
March 24, 2021
Panelist Rob Scott, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, has been pounding the table on this issue for a few years now. He sees this as a headwind for manufacturing, a sector that is famous for hiring blue-collar workers and paying good wages, giving them a chance to enter in and stay in the middle class. In 2019, he wrote an op-ed in the New York Times highlighting how Senator Elizabeth Warren and President Trump actually saw eye-to-eye on how an overvalued dollar was a major stumbling block for American manufacturing labor.
“The simplest way to make the dollar less attractive is to impose a tax on foreign purchases of US assets,” Scott said. “You can tax new purchases of US assets, so this is not a tax on US investors. We have lost 5 million manufacturing jobs over the last 20 years, which has led to the devastation of the industrial heartlands in the upper northeast and Midwest and Southeast. And it has been especially harmful for non-college educated workers.”
Coalition for a Prosperous America
March 24, 2021
At the same time, the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, called on the administration to continue the duties. It hosted a call with representatives of United Steelworkers union and said that the duties helped boost output and create thousands of jobs. The industry is concentrated in politically sensitive swing states including Michigan, Ohio and Indiana.
Bloomberg
March 24, 2021
The average wage grew so much, and so fast, because millions of the lowest paid workers lost their jobs.
A report analyzing the data, from the Economic Policy Institute, provides insight into a labor market with growing inequality among the highest and lowest paid workers, at a time of high union support and low union membership.
“All of the job losses are happening in the bottom half of the wage distribution,” said Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute and co-author of the paper examining this phenomenon. “And the top half is actually seeing some wage gains.”
KTVU-TV
March 24, 2021