Economists say other relief policies have proved more effective at boosting the economy. For instance, an extra $600 in weekly unemployment pay helped bolster households that had suffered job or income losses — until it expired in July. In May alone, the program boosted personal income by $842 billion, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
CBS News
November 5, 2020
Research released in May by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, which was cited in the federal rule-making, suggested that “most H-1B employers … are taking advantage of a flawed H-1B prevailing wage rule to underpay their workers … resulting in major savings in labor costs for companies that use the H-1B.”
Silicon Valley
November 5, 2020
From these sensationalist stories, it’s easy to lose track of the fact that the biggest thieves in the country have consistently been employers stealing from their employees’ wages. The Economic Policy Institute (9/18/14, 5/10/17) found that wage theft is a much bigger problem than all other forms of criminal property theft like burglaries, larceny and motor vehicle theft combined, with minimum wage violations alone potentially exceeding all other forms of theft put together.
Nation of Change
November 5, 2020
David Cooper, senior economic analyst at the Economic Policy Institute, said states are passing these measures because lawmakers in D.C. haven’t. The House passed a similar bill last year, but it didn’t go anywhere in the Senate.
“In the absence of federal legislation, it’s good that states are taking this up,” he said. “But I think, unfortunately, there are going to be many states that are probably not going to take up this issue unless they’re required to either by voters or by the federal government.”
Marketplace
November 5, 2020
1 J. Bivens and B. Zipperer, “Health Insurance and the COVID-19 Shock,” Economic Policy Institute, August 26, 2020, available at https://files.epi.org/pdf/206003.pdf.
JD Supra
November 5, 2020
As the Economic Policy Institute’s Valerie Wilson has explained, wages for all ethnic groups have risen since the beginning of the Great Recession; Black wages rose the least, by 6.3 percent. Those increases began before Trump was president and were driven largely by rising minimum wages at the state and local levels, as well as a more competitive labor market.
VOX
November 5, 2020
Terri Gerstein of the Harvard Labor and Worklife Program and Economic Policy Institute said in an email to CNN Business that the result will “leave thousands of California workers in a precarious and perilous position, without basic rights like workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance, or the right to a safe workplace.”
CNN
November 5, 2020
If rules are included so this investment is also spent in America — so that the actual physical material of our infrastructure is American-made — Iowa alone could see more than 21,000 new jobs in construction and fabrication, according to a new paper from the Economic Policy Institute. And that doesn’t account for the downstream effects an infrastructure program would cause when newly hired construction and factory workers buy cars, groceries, and other things around town.
Des Moines Register
November 5, 2020