Studies show that gender price discrimination can cost women in practical, physical, and financial ways. Data from the Economic Policy Institute show that women still make about twenty percent less on the dollar than men.
Kiplinger
June 17, 2024
Twenty-two states increased their minimum wage this year, which is especially pertinent to an industry that employs high numbers of minimum- and low-wage workers, according to an Economic Policy Institute analysis.
Stacker
June 17, 2024
According to the Economic Policy Institute’s Wage Tracker, 92 percent of Dollar General workers earn less than $15/hour.
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
June 17, 2024
We know about the theory of “greedflation” exhibited by corporations since the COVID pandemic. Corporate profiteering was responsible for more than half of the increase in prices between 2020 and 2021, per the Economic Policy Institute.
The American Prospect
June 17, 2024
Perhaps no single chart has been as influential in the American discourse over the past decade as the “productivity vs. pay” graph. There are many versions of this graph floating around, but I’m going to use the versions published by the Economic Policy Institute. Here is probably the most famous version of the chart — the version that most of us used when we debated the issue back in the late 2010s: [paywall].
Noah Smith's blog
June 14, 2024
By either calculation, of course, contemporary U.S. CEOs are making fantastically more than their CEO counterparts back in the middle of the 20th century. In the 1960s, the Economic Policy Institute has pointed out, chief execs at major U.S. corporations seldom pocketed much more than 20 times the pay that went to their workers. Since then, the CEO-worker pay gap has quadrupled — and then quadrupled again.
Inequality.org
June 14, 2024
Historically disadvantaged groups are disproportionately employed in low-wage jobs. According to a recent Economic Policy Institute analysis of wage and census data, real wages – that is, adjusted for inflation – among low-income workers were 12% percent higher in 2023 than they were in 2019.
Nevada Current
June 10, 2024
The Labor Department estimates the reform would transfer $1.5 billion a year from employers to employees in the form of higher wages. The benefits would go disproportionately to workers who are women and people of color, according to an analysis from the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank.
Huffpost
June 10, 2024
Women and people of color are disproportionately represented in certain restaurant roles. For example, Hispanic people are more likely to be staffed as dishwashers or cooks, according to an Economic Policy Institute report.
Grist
June 10, 2024