Based on pre-pandemic data, the long-term unemployment rate in a relatively healthy economy sits at around 20 percent, said Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.
SHRM
February 19, 2021
If it had, it would have to be at least $19.33 per hour, according to a calculation back in 2017 by the Economic Policy Institute.
The Tribune-Democrat
February 18, 2021
- David Cooper, “Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 by 2024 would lift pay for nearly 40 million workers,” Economic Policy Institute, February 5, 2019, available at https://www.epi.org/publication/raising-the-federal-minimum-wage-to-15-by-2024-would-lift-pay-for-nearly-40-million-workers/.
Center for American Progress
February 18, 2021
Supporters say the coronavirus has made a higher minimum wage all the more urgent since workers earning it are disproportionately people of color. The liberal Economic Policy Institute found that more than 19% of Hispanic workers and more than 14% of Black workers earned hourly wages that kept them below federal poverty guidelines in 2017.
FOX 4 KC
February 18, 2021
Ms. Rhinehart, now a senior fellow at the liberal Economic Policy Institute, said Ms. Abruzzo “will hit the ground running and help restore the N.L.R.B.’s credibility as an agency that protects and promotes the right of workers to organize and bargain collectively for improvements at their workplace.”
New York Times
February 18, 2021
One is changing the workplace culture and increasing diverse representation within the ranks. That includes not just hiring more Black workers and vendors, but also paying Black men and women the same as White men. Black workers make a median 75.6% of White wages, according to the Economic Policy Institute’s State of Working America Wages 2019.
CNBC
February 18, 2021
The average worker in so-called right-to-work states earns nearly $1,500 less per year, according to research by the Economic Policy Institute, and is less likely to have health insurance or a pension.
Public News Service
February 18, 2021
What do gymnast Simone Biles, writers Agatha Christie and Jorge Luis Borges, and architect Antoni Gaudí have in common? They were all homeschooled, for reasons varying from health, parents’ need to travel, parents’ preferences, or their specific learning needs.
USA Today
February 18, 2021
A more recent study from the Employment Policies Institute, a conservative group associated with the restaurant industry, pegs the number of jobs that could be lost at 2 million, while the “restaurant and bar industry will account for 45% of total job losses.” (This research organization shouldn’t be confused with the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal-leaning group that has its own research which comes to the opposite conclusion of its near namesake.)
Yahoo
February 18, 2021