According to the Economic Policy Institute, the average Uber driver only works three months out of the year and 17 hours per week. For most drivers, Uber only supplements their income. Uber never claimed to provide a living wage, it’s pretty openly marketed as a side hustle.
Uber drivers may only make between $8.55 and $10 an hour, but people continue to hop in the driver’s seat, proving they would rather work for those numbers than take the extra leisure time.
Orange County Register
August 17, 2020
Indeed, according to the Economic Policy Institute, 60 percent of all H-1B positions certified by the Department of Labor are paid well below the local median wage for the occupation. In other words, TVA was willing to cut costs by replacing federal employees with lower-paid contractors.
InsideSources
August 17, 2020
If we continue to allow Trump and McConnell to do nothing, the result will be the type of economic implosion we haven’t experienced in our lifetimes. The failure to extend the expanded unemployment benefits will cost an additional five million jobs, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
USA Today
August 17, 2020
Inequality in Rhode Island has soared in recent decades. From 1975 to 2015, the inflation-adjusted pre-tax incomes of the richest 10 percent of Rhode Islanders rose 86 percent, according to data from the Economic Policy Institute. Over the same period, incomes of the other 90 percent of Rhode Islanders rose just 36 percent. As a result, the top 10 percent now receive nearly half of all pre-tax income earned in Rhode Island each year, the largest slice in nearly a century’s worth of data. Meanwhile, policymakers have lowered taxes on the wealthy across the country — including in Rhode Island, where the top state income tax rate has dropped from 17 percent in 1975 to 5.99 percent in the present day.
Uprise Rhode Island
August 17, 2020
Larry Mishel, the former longtime president of the Economic Policy Institute and one of the most prominent pro-labor economists in Washington, told the New York Times’s Michelle Goldberg that Biden’s plan was “as robust and fleshed out a policy suite on labor standards and unions” as he’d seen from a Democrat in his lifetime.
VOX
August 17, 2020
The Economic Policy Institute estimates that extending the $600 UI benefits, which expired in July, through to the middle of 2021 would provide an average quarterly GDP boost of 3.7 percent, as well as sustain the employment of 5.1 million workers.
Newsweek
August 17, 2020
Possible reasons for that include differing work demands or socioeconomic circumstances, he said. A June study by the Economic Policy Institute found that Black people make up roughly one in nine workers overall but one in six of all front-line industry workers — the “essential” workers who face a higher probability of becoming infected.
CBS 17
August 17, 2020
It has identified and locked more than 3,500 fraudulent claims since January 2020, representing 0.07% of claims, Gamez said. More than 1.6 million Texans were receiving unemployment benefits or awaiting approval as of Aug. 8, according to an Economic Policy Institute analysis of government data.
Dallas Morning News
August 17, 2020
Scott’s grantees already include plenty of organizations working to boost economic mobility among disadvantaged groups, as well as labor movement nonprofits like the National Domestic Workers Alliance and One Fair Wage. However, think tanks whose missions center economic justice are less well-represented. Though she did back PolicyLink, Scott hasn’t yet backed places like the Economic Policy Institute, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, or Demos—all of which advocate for liberal fiscal policy and better supports for the lower and middle classes.
Inside Philanthropy
August 17, 2020
“I think [Uber’s numbers] are phony-baloney,” said economist Larry Mishel, a distinguished fellow at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute and author of a 2018 study about Uber’s wages.
WVLT-TV
August 17, 2020