CONSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGES TO THE LABOR BOARD have surfaced in recent years as “anti-union companies” sense a conservative Supreme Court might reconsider precedent, said Celine McNicholas, general counsel and director of policy and government affairs at the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank. The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the board in 1937, shortly after the National Labor Relations Act created the NLRB. It has been treated as settled law since.
McNicholas said she is not aware of any other colleges or universities that have argued that the NLRB is unconstitutional.
“Private universities are just like every other sort of large, private employer that wants to resist its workers’ right to organize,” she said.
The American Prospect
April 14, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute, a single adult in Pima County now needs about $42,000 a year, or nearly $20 an hour, to cover basic living expenses.
KGUN (Arizona)
April 14, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), the legislation would immediately benefit 213,000 workers in New York alone. Nationwide, the EPI estimates that one in four U.S. workers currently earns less than $17/hour.
Finger Lakes One
April 14, 2025
“A review by the Economic Policy Institute in September found this narrative [job loss] to be ‘largely wrong’, citing that most minimum wage studies find little to no effect on employment.”
FOX 26 News
April 14, 2025
In most of the country, sending a kid to day care costs more than sending one to a public university according to the latest tally by the Economic Policy Institute. Average costs range from a little under $7,000 a year in Mississippi to over $28,000 in Washington D.C. But in New Mexico, most families can pay nothing at all.
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The state could see a big return on that investment, especially if it helps more parents stay in the workforce, said Elise Gould, senior with the Economic Policy Institute.
“That’s more tax dollars, that’s a larger economy,” she said.
Marketplace
April 14, 2025
She will join a local pastor and a local imam, as well as economic justice leaders from the DC Fiscal Policy Institute, the Economic Security Project and Economic Policy Institute who want to prioritize working families and communities over corporations and the “ultra-wealthy.”
Washington Jewish Week
April 14, 2025
Economists from the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal leaning Washington-based think tank, say tariffs can protect domestic production in specific economic sectors. But high, broad-based tariffs won’t fix the U.S. trade deficit or rebuild employment in manufacturing because exports will be reduced along with imports, economists Adam S. Hersh and Josh Bivens said in a report on the group’s website.
Baltimore Sun
April 14, 2025
Costs have risen so much that Texans are now paying more for child care than college, according to the Economic Policy Institute. On average, Texans spend about $2,000 more per year for infant child care than in-state college tuition and $1,300 more to send a 4-year-old to preschool.
Houston Chronicle
April 14, 2025
This is when the burden of retirement shifted to you. And then came the Revenue Act of 1978. It created the “employer-sponsored” retirement plan (section 401k). Companies offering this benefit deducted part of each paycheck (specified by the employee) and provided options for self-directed investments.
These contributions were made with pretax dollars, meaning the money went into your retirement account before getting taxed. An added incentive was companies could match a portion of your contributions, but few did.
This all sounded fine and dandy. But almost no one knew what this really meant for retirement.
In 2013, the Economic Policy Institute declared the 401(k) a “poor substitute” for the previous system, and the Wall Street Journal deemed the 401(k) “oversold.”
Forbes
April 14, 2025