Many of the state-level restrictions being targeted for rollback have no counterpart in federal law.
“There’s no federal standard to fall back on” related to youth work permits, said Nina Mast, policy and economic analyst at the Economic Policy Institute. “It kind of makes the work permits vulnerable to attack in some of these state legislatures that are susceptible to these arguments about bureaucracy or red tape.”
Bloomberg Law
July 15, 2024
A 2018 Economic Policy Institute report found that when Amazon opens a warehouse, the number of warehouse jobs goes up, but the total number of jobs in an area does not change, with new warehousing jobs “likely offset by job losses in other industries.”
Providence Journal
July 15, 2024
Analysis conducted by the Economic Policy Institute has found that raising the federal minimum wage to $17 by 2028 would impact 27,858,000 workers across the U.S., or about 19% of the workforce. EPI also found that the increases would provide an additional $86 billion annually in wages for the country’s lowest-paid workers. And the average affected worker who works year-round would receive an extra $3,100 per year.
Forbes
July 15, 2024
Wage theft is a growing epidemic across the U.S., costing American workers an estimated $50 billion a year in stolen money, according to a 2023 study by the Economic Policy Institute. New York state leaders are trying to recover stolen wages.
Spectrum News 1
July 15, 2024
That struggle mimics a larger trend across the U.S. A study from the Economic Policy Institute says there were about 192,000 drivers nationwide last September, down about 15% from 2019.
News 9
July 15, 2024
A two-parent, two-child household in Wake County spends about $1,113 a month on food, according to cost of living estimates from the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank based in Washington, D.C. That breaks down to roughly $278 per child—more than twice as much as the summer stipend from SUN Bucks.
North Carolina Health News
July 15, 2024
But these clauses also cover a wide range of workers, with about half of private-sector businesses in the U.S. requiring at least some employees to sign noncompete agreements, according to a 2019 study from the Economic Policy Institute.
Worklife News
July 15, 2024
For localities, surpassing pre-pandemic job levels is a good sign, but probably not enough given the governments’ expanding needs and population growth, said Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, which studies policies for low- and middle-income workers.
“It’s a good benchmark, but it’s probably still not nearly enough,” she said.
Bloomberg
July 15, 2024
Research from the Economic Policy Institute indicates that unions are associated with higher wages, less income inequality, smaller wage gaps, and improved health and safety among other benefits. Project 2025 wants to dismantle workers’ rights to organize via unions and proposes that employees instead be provided a less powerful alternative called “employee involvement organizations.”
Forbes
July 15, 2024
But as the summer job has been slowly phasing out of the typical American teenage experience, many state legislatures have been attacking child labor laws. According to the Economic Policy Institute, more than 30 states have introduced legislation to roll back child labor laws since 2021, and eight states have enacted those bills in 2024 alone.
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“There’s often a disconnect, especially when in states where these lawmakers are proposing rollbacks, where they sort of describe this workforce as if it’s like teens who just want to earn a little bit of extra pocket change and work in movie theaters. Those are the same youth they bring to the hearings to talk about how meaningful and fun it is to work in these jobs,” said Nina Mast, an analyst at the Economic Policy Institute who focuses on child labor standards. “They’re always ignoring the reality that a lot of the most dangerous and difficult jobs are being done by migrant youth or other marginalized young people who are not being represented in these conversations.”
VOX
July 15, 2024