The U.S. House has passed a bill to gradually increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour by the end of 2024, which, according to the Economic Policy Institute, would increase wages for 38.6 million adults, 23.8 million full-time workers, 23 million women, and 11.2 million parents and 5.4 million single parents who care for 14.4 million children.
Wilkes Barre Citizens' Voice
September 8, 2020
While the lowest-paid and most vulnerable workers have faced untold challenges during the health and economic crisis, many companies have tried to shield their top executives from paycuts even though CEO pay rose 14% last year, according to a study by the Economic Policy Institute. The average CEO now earns 320 times as much as a typical worker, according to the analysis.
Salon
September 8, 2020
Attorney General Dana Nessel is one of the leading state AGs in protecting workers’ rights, according to a new report published by the Washington, D.C.-based Economic Policy Institute (EPI) prior to Labor Day.
The economic justice think tank details the more prominent role state attorneys general have taken in labor rights issues since mid-2018 and lists specific ways each has advanced workers’ protections, both on the state and federal level.
Michigan Advance
September 8, 2020
One basic function of government is keeping people safe. Another is enforcing the law. Unfortunately, President Trump’s labor team has barely lifted a finger to help workers.
Enter state attorneys general. In recent years, a number of them have been increasingly involved in workers’ rights, as documented in an Economic Policy Institute and Harvard Labor and Worklife Program report issued last month.
The American Prospect
September 8, 2020
The Economic Policy Institute has warned that without more federal aid, currently deadlocked in Congress, 5.3m local government jobs could go by the end of 2021. Again, women and people of color will be overrepresented in those jobs losses.
The Guardian
September 8, 2020
There was a recent Economic Policy Institute report that said Black workers make up about 1 in 6 front-line industry workers, so of course that takes time away from the learning environment and what they are able to offer their children.
The Undefeated
September 8, 2020
Unfortunately, many of the workers businesses as well as federal, state or local governments label essential don’t always get treated like it.
“Despite being categorized as essential, many workers in these industries are not receiving the most basic health and safety measures to combat the spread of the coronavirus,” the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank that focuses on issues involving low- and middle-income workers, said in a May blog post. “Essential workers are dying as a result.”
The Houma Courier
September 8, 2020
The Economic Policy Institute recently pointed out that 12 million Americans have lost their employer-provided health care insurance during the pandemic.
Newsweek
September 8, 2020
At the Republican National Convention in August, the GOP claimed that their policies under Trump have benefitted Black workers across the United States.
However, research paints a starkly different picture. According to the Economic Policy Institute, the wage gap between Black and white Americans has actually grown nearly 33% from 2000 to 2019.
NJ Today
September 8, 2020
The U.S. lost 5 million manufacturing jobs between January 2000 and December 2014 because of “growing trade deficits in manufacturing products prior to the Great Recession and then the massive output collapse during the Great Recession,” according to a 2015 report from the Economic Policy Institute.
Fox Business
September 8, 2020