According to the data from the Economic Policy Institute, while 27 percent of the total US workforce would benefit from the raise: 39 percent of Black and Latina women would benefit (vs. 18 percent of white men); 38 percent of African American workers would benefit; 33 percent of Latino workers would benefit; and 32 percent of women workers would benefit (vs 22 percent of men).
Nation of Change
February 11, 2021
Brown recently introduced the Raise the Wage Act of 2021, which would gradually increase the federal minimum wage to $15 by 2025. Beginning in 2026, the federal minimum wage would be indexed to median wage growth. According to an independent analysis conducted by the Economic Policy Institute, the Raise the Wage Act would increase wages for nearly 32 million Americans, including roughly a third of all Black workers and a quarter of all Latino workers.
Sen. Sherrod Brown
February 11, 2021
Still, there are some compelling reasons to direct economic aid to mothers specifically, depending on what problem you’re trying to solve, says Elise Gould, an economist with the Economic Policy Institute. Extra income has a more positive impact on child poverty when mothers, rather than fathers, are the recipients of that money, research has found. But childhood poverty is yet another complex problem, and it is not the one the Marshall Plan group explicitly set out to address with this campaign.
Fortune
February 11, 2021
De Marco’s words point to a major blind spot within the study on minimum wage and HIV rates: the failure to consider employment trends. According to the Economic Policy Institute, even before the coronavirus-related economic depression, one in nine people in the U.S. working full-time schedules were paid amounts that left them in poverty, and Black and Latinx people were almost twice as likely as white people to be paid poverty-scale wages.
The Body
February 11, 2021
The Economic Policy Institute estimates that nearly a third of all Black workers would get a raise under the Raise the Wage Act. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that it could also raise wages for 17 million workers overall. Another 10 million workers earning just above $15 could also see an increase.
Other Words
February 11, 2021
Politifact
February 11, 2021
The coronavirus crisis recovery has been labeled “k-shaped” because of the way it has magnified existing inequalities.
The Hill
February 11, 2021
But when COVID-19 hit and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer mandated economic shutdowns for as long as eight months in some industries, that figure jumped fivefold to 35.5% in the second quarter of 2020, according to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI).
The Center Square
February 11, 2021
Heidi Shierholz, senior economist for the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, disputed that the jobless would prefer to draw benefits that last months rather than a permanent job, especially since there were 1.6 unemployed people for every job opening in December.
USA Today
February 11, 2021
Raising the federal minimum wage is a crucial racial and gender justice issue, as analysis from the Economic Policy Institute demonstrates that the majority of workers who will benefit from a $15 minimum wage are adult women, and Black women in particular. Raising the federal minimum wage is also more urgent than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic: A majority of people who would benefit from the Raise the Wage Act are frontline and essential workers, including those who work in nursing homes, hospitals, schools, retail establishments, food service, and the transportation industry. It is not enough to call these workers heroes. They need the wages they have been fighting for across the country.
NELP
February 11, 2021