Research by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) found that if the minimum wage was raised to $15 by 2015 wages would increase for 21 percent of the U.S. workforce — that’s nearly 32 million workers across the country.
The impact of raising the minimum wage also varies greatly by congressional district, according to a report released by EPI last week.
Nevada Current
February 5, 2021
Elise Gould and Melat Kassa, “Young workers hit hard by the COVID-19 economy,” Economic Policy Institute, October 14, 2020, https://www.epi.org/publication/young-workers-covid-recession/.
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
February 5, 2021
Now, a new report from the Economic Policy Institute shows the kind of impact a national $15/hr minimum wage would have on our communities: 32 million workers would see a raise – more than a fifth of all U.S. workers.
Fight for 15
February 5, 2021
The gender pay gap could be somewhat alleviated by an increase in minimum wage. According to the Economic Policy Institute, raising the minimum wage would give 20 million women a raise, a figure that includes 26.7 percent of employed women. States that have a higher minimum wage have significantly lower rates of gender pay disparity, even more reason to increase minimum wage nationally.
The Daily Iowan
February 5, 2021
Mr. Biden isn’t out of options if the Senate won’t go along, however. He has the power to unilaterally and directly raise pay for federal contractors by raising their wage floor to $15 an hour, which would affect at least a quarter million Americans, according to an estimate Heidi Shierholz, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, shared with The Times. And the ripple of effects of such an action will reverberate throughout the American work force.
The New York Times
February 5, 2021
However, the agency is rife with it. For instance, in a segment on the minimum wage on a Dec. 9 news program, Ben Zipperer from the Economic Policy Institute asserted that “we have a racist and sexist labor market in the U.S.” No opposing point of view was offered. How is that for balance? When I checked the newsroom’s Polygraph site, I found that, on Dec. 3, it ran a fact check attacking Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for saying that the Golan Heights are part of Israel. The “Verdict” was “Misleading.” An in-house analysis of Polygraph’s audience showed that more than 70% came from the United States. By law, VOA is not supposed to target American audiences.
Washington Times
February 5, 2021
Research by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) found that if the minimum wage was raised to $15 by 2015 wages would increase for 21 percent of the U.S. workforce — that’s nearly 32 million workers across the country.
The impact of raising the minimum wage also varies greatly by congressional district, according to a report released by EPI last week.
Nevada Current
February 5, 2021
Elise Gould and Melat Kassa, “Young workers hit hard by the COVID-19 economy,” Economic Policy Institute, October 14, 2020, https://www.epi.org/publication/young-workers-covid-recession/.
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
February 5, 2021
Now, a new report from the Economic Policy Institute shows the kind of impact a national $15/hr minimum wage would have on our communities: 32 million workers would see a raise – more than a fifth of all U.S. workers.
Fight for 15
February 5, 2021
The gender pay gap could be somewhat alleviated by an increase in minimum wage. According to the Economic Policy Institute, raising the minimum wage would give 20 million women a raise, a figure that includes 26.7 percent of employed women. States that have a higher minimum wage have significantly lower rates of gender pay disparity, even more reason to increase minimum wage nationally.
The Daily Iowan
February 5, 2021