Heidi Shierholz, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think-tank, argued that the CBO’s estimated job losses from enacting a $15 minimum wage are “overstated.”
“The crucial fact is that an employment decline as a result of a minimum wage increase doesn’t necessarily mean any worker is actually worse off,” she wrote in a July 2019 report. “For a wide variety of reasons, a sizeable share of low-wage workers routinely cycle in and out of employment; each quarter, more than 20 percent of the lowest-wage workers leave or start a job.”
MarketWatch
January 21, 2021
And this isn’t a tactic unique to academic organizing. According to a report from the Economic Policy Institute, employers in the United States spend a collective $340 million on “union avoidance” consultants each year, generally for the purpose of framing unionizing efforts as labor’s bogeyman.
Orlando Weekly
January 21, 2021
The Economic Policy Institute says 9.8 million jobs have disappeared since February 2020. The think tank stated Jan. 14 that 26.8 million workers are now jobless or have experienced a cut in hours or wages due to the pandemic. (tinyurl.com/y3blh3qj)
Mundo Obrero Workers World
January 21, 2021
“It’s a disaster. Those kids who have already got the worst of COVID and its consequences are the ones who are going to face a larger lack of sufficient, and sufficiently qualified, teachers,” Emma Garcia, an education economist at the Economic Policy Institute, told The New York Times. “It’s going to have negative consequences immediately and it’s going to take them longer to be able to catch up.”
The Hill
January 21, 2021
Heidi Shierholz, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think-tank, argued that the CBO’s estimated job losses from enacting a $15 minimum wage are “overstated.”
“The crucial fact is that an employment decline as a result of a minimum wage increase doesn’t necessarily mean any worker is actually worse off,” she wrote in a July 2019 report. “For a wide variety of reasons, a sizeable share of low-wage workers routinely cycle in and out of employment; each quarter, more than 20 percent of the lowest-wage workers leave or start a job.”
MarketWatch
January 21, 2021
And this isn’t a tactic unique to academic organizing. According to a report from the Economic Policy Institute, employers in the United States spend a collective $340 million on “union avoidance” consultants each year, generally for the purpose of framing unionizing efforts as labor’s bogeyman.
Orlando Weekly
January 21, 2021
The Economic Policy Institute says 9.8 million jobs have disappeared since February 2020. The think tank stated Jan. 14 that 26.8 million workers are now jobless or have experienced a cut in hours or wages due to the pandemic. (tinyurl.com/y3blh3qj)
Mundo Obrero Workers World
January 21, 2021
Heidi Shierholz, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think-tank, argued that the CBO’s estimated job losses from enacting a $15 minimum wage are “overstated.”
“The crucial fact is that an employment decline as a result of a minimum wage increase doesn’t necessarily mean any worker is actually worse off,” she wrote in a July 2019 report. “For a wide variety of reasons, a sizeable share of low-wage workers routinely cycle in and out of employment; each quarter, more than 20 percent of the lowest-wage workers leave or start a job.”
MarketWatch
January 21, 2021
And this isn’t a tactic unique to academic organizing. According to a report from the Economic Policy Institute, employers in the United States spend a collective $340 million on “union avoidance” consultants each year, generally for the purpose of framing unionizing efforts as labor’s bogeyman.
Orlando Weekly
January 21, 2021
The Economic Policy Institute says 9.8 million jobs have disappeared since February 2020. The think tank stated Jan. 14 that 26.8 million workers are now jobless or have experienced a cut in hours or wages due to the pandemic. (tinyurl.com/y3blh3qj)
Mundo Obrero Workers World
January 21, 2021