His research with the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute found that in 2019, IT staffing companies such as Infosys, Deloitte and Cognizant had applied for large numbers of H-1B workers at the second-lowest wage levels, while Bay Area technology giants Google, Apple, Cisco and Oracle had a mix of higher and lower levels.
The Mercury News
October 29, 2020
But since the turn of the century, the U.S. has lost millions of jobs, particularly in manufacturing, at least partly because of China’s growing role in the world economy. Since the 2008 financial crisis, 1.7 million jobs have gone, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, D.C., which largely blames China’s admission into the World Trade Organization for the loss. In an essay titled “The Death of Engagement” by Orville Schell, a giant in the world of China studies, the former secretary of state George Shultz reflected that the policy of opening up “gave the Chinese leverage over us.”
The Atlantic
October 29, 2020
Also, nearly half of all Latina workers are employed in the three fields that suffered the greatest job losses this year between February and May: hospitality, retail, and “other services,” according to the Economic Policy Institute.
BE Latina
October 29, 2020
The Economic Policy Institute: “Counties that pivoted to Trump had lower wage growth than other counties”
The Hill
October 29, 2020
The national minimum wage was created in 1938 as part of the Fair Labor Standards Act, which set the rate at 25 cents an hour. It has risen in fits and starts in the decades since, but it has not kept pace with the country’s cost of living. According to a 2019 analysis done by the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C., think tank, after adjusting for inflation, the minimum wage reached its peak value in 1968. Today, the minimum wage is worth 31 percent less than it was in 1968 and 17 percent less than it was even as recently as 2009, the last time the national rate was increased, to $7.25 an hour.
Sarasota Magazine
October 29, 2020
The Economic Policy Institute’s Family Budget Calculator was used to determine the local cost of living, which includes housing, food, health care, transportation and other necessities. In many of the locations examined in the study – which identified the region in each state where the cost of living is lowest – housing costs can account for less than 15 percent of total living expenses.
The Center Square
October 29, 2020
From the time China was brought into the WTO in 2001 until Donald Trump’s election, Michigan lost almost 90,000 manufacturing jobs to China. That’s according to the Economic Policy Institute, which is actually a left wing think tank. When President Trump ran in Michigan, he said we won’t close one auto plant, well, that’s not been true, and in fact, even before the pandemic we were losing manufacturing jobs, and it’s been compounded. It’s the crazy chaos with the tariffs and the trade war.
WJBK-TV (Detroit)
October 27, 2020
Think about child care, for instance: Even in the best of times, finding flexible, reliable and affordable care is difficult. The cost alone is daunting: A report by the Economic Policy Institute shows that full-time infant care ranges from about $5,500 a year in Mississippi to an astonishing $24,000 in Washington, D.C. When families crunch the numbers, some discover that daycare or babysitters eat up much, if not all, of one person’s salary. And often women—who still make on average just 82 cents for every dollar paid to a man—are the ones to call it quits.
Newsweek
October 27, 2020
An analysis from the Economic Policy Institute will reinforce those legal arguments. It estimates the rule will lead to $3.7 billion per year transferred from workers to businesses, based on an estimate that the rule would spur 5% growth in use of independent contractors, which EPI economist Heidi Shierholz described as a conservative figure.
Bloomberg Law
October 27, 2020