A 2018 study by Alexander J.S. Colvin for the Economic Policy Institute estimates that 60 million American workers have signed arbitration contracts with their employers — and that such contracts are more common for low-wage workers.
Los Angeles Times
December 10, 2020
Findings published last week by the Economic Policy Institute show that wages for the top 1% of Americans have skyrocketed 160% since 1979. Wages for the upper echelon of the rich — the top 0.1% — grew more than twice as fast, soaring more than 345%.
Fox Business
December 10, 2020
“The president has the authority to direct [the Occupational Safety and Health Administration] to put in place an emergency temporary standard to help protect workers during COVID,” said Heidi Shierholz, a former Obama administration labor economist who now works at the Economic Policy Institute.
NPR
December 10, 2020
“Another way to think about this, for every 16 workers who were officially counted as unemployed, there were only available jobs for 10 of them,” said Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington. “That means there were no jobs for 4.2 million unemployed workers. And this misses the fact that many more weren’t counted among the unemployed.”
Reuters
December 10, 2020
According to research from the Economic Policy Institute, in 2019, public school teachers earned nearly 20% less in weekly wages than other college-educated workers.
Yahoo Finance
December 9, 2020
An examination of federal data by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) shows that income rose for the top 1 percent of earners by 160 percent between 1979 and 2019, compared to only 26 percent for those in the bottom 90 percent of wage earners. Both groups, however, were dwarfed by those in the top 0.1 percent of incomes, who saw their wages skyrocket by 345.2 percent during the same time.
Teamsters
December 9, 2020
Infrastructure investment is not only a smart move politically. Recent research by the Economic Policy Institute found up to 12.9 million new jobs could be created by investing in infrastructure and clean energy and rebalancing trade. Enhancing Buy America policies will only enhance those estimates.
Alliance for American Manufacturing
December 9, 2020
A recent report from the Economic Policy Institute found that reinstating the expired $600 weekly jobless benefit could save or create 3.3 million jobs and boost personal income by more than $290 billion over the next year.
CNBC
December 9, 2020
According to a study conducted by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), Microsoft issued a report in 2012 that distorted the future reality of computing-related occupations. Microsoft’s report stated that there would be a shortage of 1.2 million developers needing to fill computing related-positions that required at least a bachelor’s degree between 2010 and 2020. Microsoft continued on to say that in the United States, 40,000 Americans graduate with bachelor’s degrees in computer science each year, leaving many of the projected future jobs unfilled.
Medium
December 9, 2020