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
As stated in an article from the Economic Policy Institute: “A $15 minimum wage would begin to reverse decades of growing pay inequality between the most underpaid workers and workers receiving close to the median wage, particularly along gender and racial lines. For example, minimum wage increases in the late 1960s explained 20% of the decrease in the Black–white earnings gap in the years that followed, whereas failures to adequately increase the minimum wage after 1979 account for almost half of the increase in inequality between women at the middle and bottom of the wage distribution.
The Guilfordian
February 5, 2021
In 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor investigated about one thousand cases of agricultural wage theft, according to the Economic Policy Institute. More than 200,000 workers traveled to the U.S. that year on H-2A visas, and some of their advocates believe wage-theft incidents are much higher.
Public News Service
February 5, 2021
Ben Zipperer, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, said minimum wage raises are exceptionally popular among the public. A 2019 Pew Research Survey found that two-thirds of Americans supported raising the minimum wage to $15.
Business Insider
February 5, 2021
In Indiana, the minimum wage for tipped employees is $2.13 an hour. If tips combined with hourly wage is less than $7.25, then the employer is required to make up the difference. However, a report published by the Economic Policy Institute in 2014 found widespread violation of this requirement.
The Exponent
February 5, 2021