A 2022 report by the Economic Policy Institute, found that in the United States the vast majority of domestic workers — more than 90 percent — are women; just over half are Black, Hispanic, or Asian American and Pacific Islander women; and they tend to be older than other workers.
Associated Press
June 27, 2024
The Economic Policy Institute reported that American employers prefer to use the H-2A program over hiring U.S. workers because they see foreign workers as “exploitable.” American employers often fight against new H-2A regulations, alleging that the program is already too “expensive” and “bureaucratically complex.”
Prism Reports
June 27, 2024
Speakers this week will tackle each of these issues and offer policy recommendations for narrowing the wage gap. Guest Speakers – Dr. Michelle Holder, Associate Professor of Economics at John Jay College, City University of New York – Dr. Michael Reich, Professor of Economics and Chair, Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, University of California at Berkeley – Dr. Heidi Shierholz, President, Economic Policy Institute – Dr. Austin Clemens, Senior Fellow, Washington Center for Equitable Growth
Ethnic Media Services
June 24, 2024
Wage theft affects every aspect of our economy, none more than the workers that directly feel its effects, most often low-wage earners, disproportionately women, immigrants and people of color. The crime takes many forms: not paying minimum wage or overtime, denying meal breaks, unpaid sick leave, tip theft and bounced paychecks. The costs add up, no matter how you look at them. According to the Economic Policy Institute, the average worker lost an equivalent of a month and half of rent, or money to cover critical household costs, such as child care and groceries.
San Jose Spotlight
June 24, 2024
In 2017, Trump’s Labor Department proposed a change to the minimum wage regulations that would have allowed employers to pool workers’ tips and then keep the tips, if they wanted. One estimate from the Economic Policy Institute found that if the Trump proposal had gone into effect, employers would have pocketed $5.8 billion of workers’ tips.
MSNBC.com
June 24, 2024
You’ll need to earn around $25 per hour to live on your own in the United States’ 25 largest cities.
That’s a median figure: You’ll need more in cities like San Francisco or Boston, and less in San Antonio or Detroit. The money covers a single person’s basic expenses like housing in a studio apartment, food, health care and transportation, based on estimates from the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute’s Living Wage Family Budget calculator.
CNBC
June 24, 2024
The unemployment rate among Black Americans has consistently been twice that of white Americans, according to the Economic Policy Institute, while in a 2021 Gallup poll, one in four Black and Hispanic workers in the US reported recent discrimination at work.
Financial Times
June 24, 2024
Education Week
June 24, 2024
“Hitting retirement age has nothing to do with economic prospects, nothing to do with the strength of the economy. It is just naturally declining because of this composition effect.”
AFP
June 24, 2024
The slow but mostly steady decline in Black poverty stems from expansions of Social Security to cover occupations such as agricultural and domestic workers that had initially been excluded from the program, along with improved access to jobs and higher education driven by the civil rights movement, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal-leaning think tank.
Politifact
June 24, 2024