We cannot say, however, that all the Biden voters voted for him because he ran as a challenger to the neoliberal economics and politics running the country since Reagan. There were probably not too many votes cast against Trump because he was on the wrong side of a wealth divide, a winner bunkered in with other winners looking at the losers bunkered in the cold outside. Or too many who voted for him because of the lousy way he treated those who worked on his real estate fiascoes, or because they wanted to end “the Trump administration’s consistent attack on workplace democracy—the ability of working people to elect representation in the workplace.” (McNicholas and Poydock, Report: Economic Policy Institute, Oct. 21, 2020)
Counterpunch
November 13, 2020
The Trump administration also recently started requiring companies hiring H-1B visa holders to pay them more as a way to encourage domestic hiring instead. And some research has found that the program can push down wages for all workers. According to a recent study by the union-backed Economic Policy Institute, employers underpaid H-1B visa holders. Among the top employers using the program are Amazon, Microsoft, Walmart, Google, Apple and Facebook. EPI found all of them legally paid many of their H1-B workers below the local median wage for the jobs they filled.
Marketplace
November 13, 2020
The help provided by the government’s initial $2.2 trillion stimulus package is long gone, and the Republican-controlled Senate has consistently failed to produce another relief effort. Meanwhile, at least 6.2 million people lost their employer-sponsored health insurance via the pandemic, according to the Economic Policy Institute, and millions more did not have company health plans to begin with.
LA Progressive
November 13, 2020
“An administration without Congress can’t do much,” said Heidi Shierholz, senior economist and director of policy at the Economic Policy Institute. She was the Labor Department’s economist in the Obama administration. “I have dim hopes for a basic recovery package,” she said. “I don’t have any hope for progressive priorities, like a really big investment in the care economy.”
Wall Street Journal
November 13, 2020
But even with uncertainty in the Senate, “there is no path to having a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate” to increase the federal minimum wage, said Heidi Shierholz, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think-tank based in Washington, D.C.
MarketWatch
November 12, 2020
Rothstein, distinguished fellow at the Economic Policy Institute and senior fellow emeritus at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, explained two ways in which Black Americans were directly impacted: Federal lending authorities required that suburban housing tracts incorporate CC&Rs prohibiting anyone other than Caucasians to own property in a development, and, simultaneously, while white flight to the suburbs was occurring, urban neighborhoods became even less desirable as zoning laws reserved some of their neighborhoods for industrial plants and waste disposal – “blights” that were kept out of white neighborhoods.
Los Altos Town Crier
November 12, 2020
Wells said workers in Arizona do benefit from one of the highest minimum wages in the country. According to the Economic Policy Institute, Arizona’s $12-an-hour minimum wage trails only Massachusetts’ $12.75 hourly wage, California’s $13.00, Washington state’s $13.50 and the District of Columbia’s $15.00. Oregon, Colorado and Maine also set a $12 hourly minimum.
AZ Daily Sun
November 12, 2020
And these are only data for people who are working. Economist Valerie Wilson at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) notes that many more women than men are dropping out of the labor force altogether. The trend is driven by women’s care work responsibilities, with the lack of school reopening and America’s inadequate child care system making it harder for women to stay in the labor force. Tedeschi has shown that mothers are leaving the work force at three times the rate of fathers.
Forbes
November 12, 2020
“I think we’re likely to see a focus on relief and recovery efforts, in particular […] through a lens of what workers need to work safely in this moment,” Celine McNicholas, director of government affairs and legal counsel at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning policy think tank, told HR Dive. “No one having to return to work in an unsafe situation; looking at ways to ensure that workers are not denied employment insurance protections,” she added.
HR Dive
November 12, 2020