While employers were ready to pay higher wages to get workers after the pandemic, an influx of foreign-born workers filled the jobs and reduced the shortage. Some 2.7 million foreign born workers, ages 25-54, entered the workforce over the past four years, according to analysis of government data by the Economic Policy Institute. That’s 96% of the prime age workers added over the same period.
Mankato Free Press
April 19, 2024
Trump’s NLRB members also allowed for the misclassification of workers, which threatened their ability to join a union in the first place.
Misclassification of employees as independent contractors is a rampant problem that, according to the Economic Policy Institute, “robs employees of their rights under the NLRA,” or the National Labor Relations Act, as independent contractors are not covered or protected by the legislation. Congress passed the bill in 1935 and it guaranteed the right of private sector employees to organize into unions, collectively bargain, and go on strike.
Courier Newsroom
April 19, 2024
Since 2009, the number of school bus drivers nationwide has steadily decreased, with roughly 192,000 employed, according to a 2023 study by the Economic Policy Institute.
KSBY-TV
April 19, 2024
The Economic Policy Institute suggests that “unions threaten the Southern economic development model” that traces its origins to slavery “because they have historically been the primary counterweight against businesses seeking to keep wages and benefits low.”
Quartz
April 19, 2024
“According to the Economic Policy Institute, nearly half of American families have no retirement savings whatsoever, putting their golden years at risk.”
GO Banking Rates
April 19, 2024
For this campaign, we collected data from Zillow, Indeed, the U.S. Census Bureau, the Economic Policy Institute and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to determine which metropolitan areas are the most favorable for recent college graduates. We analyzed 70 of the largest metropolitan areas in the U.S. based on the region’s size, comparing the cities across the following metrics:
- Living costs for one person (single-parent household with no children) (35%)
MarketWatch
April 19, 2024
The Economic Policy Institute said rollbacks have been approved in a dozen states in the past few years. While current efforts are thwarted in Wisconsin, Bloomingdale worries about similar debates in future sessions.
Public News Service
April 19, 2024
According to the Economic Policy Institute, child labor violations have increased by nearly 300 percent since 2015, and the Labor Department found more than 800 violators during the past fiscal year.
Food Safety News
April 19, 2024
“Unfortunately, what has happened is that wages haven’t kept up with the cost of living, by and large, for the last 50 years or so,” said Elise Gould, senior economist at Economic Policy Institute.
“It becomes increasingly hard for many families to be able to attain that sort of middle-class lifestyle, that American Dream,” Gould said.
CNBC
April 19, 2024
Soaring violations and widespread abuse of child labor laws in multiple sectors of the economy have brought the issue to the forefront in some state legislatures in 2024, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Cal Matters
April 19, 2024
But while a 65-year-old is more likely to apply for a desk job or remote work than something that requires heavy lifting, said Monique Morrissey, a senior economist specializing in retirement security at the Economic Policy Institute, about 50% of older workers still have physically demanding jobs.
For many people, though, working into their golden years simply comes down to lacking enough money to stop working and keep a roof over their heads.
“It’s a tale of two retirements,” Morrissey said. While plenty of older Americans are working good jobs later into life by choice, others have struggled to find their place in the workforce.
CNN
April 19, 2024
(That said, a new paper from left-leaning think tank Economic Policy Institute says economic performance tends to be stronger when Democrats are in power.).
Fortune
April 19, 2024
Across the US, there are 33 states where childcare is more expensive than college, the Economic Policy Institute found. In some areas, infant care can set you back tens of thousands of dollars more than a college education.
Yahoo Finance
April 19, 2024
Cites EPI data on unemployment by race.
Crain's Cleveland Business
April 19, 2024
An estimated 36 million to 60 million Americans work under a non-compete, according to 2019 data from the Economic Policy Institute.
The CT Mirror
April 19, 2024
David Brancaccio: That 2-to-1 ratio. That is typically what we’ve seen over the years?
Valerie Wilson: Yes. In fact, the stability of that relationship between Black and white unemployment is actually documented for almost seven decades in national statistics. That disparity holds up across periods of economic expansion and recession. We see it for all age cohorts, for men and women at nearly every level of education. So, it is a pretty persistent racial disparity and unemployment.
Marketplace Morning Report
April 19, 2024
While employers were ready to pay higher wages to get workers after the pandemic, an influx of foreign-born workers filled the jobs and reduced the shortage. Some 2.7 million foreign born workers, ages 25-54, entered the workforce over the past four years, according to analysis of government data by the Economic Policy Institute. That’s 96% of the prime age workers added over the same period.
Mankato Free Press
April 17, 2024
Trump’s NLRB members also allowed for the misclassification of workers, which threatened their ability to join a union in the first place.
Misclassification of employees as independent contractors is a rampant problem that, according to the Economic Policy Institute, “robs employees of their rights under the NLRA,” or the National Labor Relations Act, as independent contractors are not covered or protected by the legislation. Congress passed the bill in 1935 and it guaranteed the right of private sector employees to organize into unions, collectively bargain, and go on strike.
Courier Newsroom
April 17, 2024
Since 2009, the number of school bus drivers nationwide has steadily decreased, with roughly 192,000 employed, according to a 2023 study by the Economic Policy Institute.
KSBY-TV
April 17, 2024
The Economic Policy Institute suggests that “unions threaten the Southern economic development model” that traces its origins to slavery “because they have historically been the primary counterweight against businesses seeking to keep wages and benefits low.”
Quartz
April 17, 2024
Soaring violations and widespread abuse of child labor laws in multiple sectors of the economy have brought the issue to the forefront in some state legislatures in 2024, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Cal Matters
April 15, 2024
But while a 65-year-old is more likely to apply for a desk job or remote work than something that requires heavy lifting, said Monique Morrissey, a senior economist specializing in retirement security at the Economic Policy Institute, about 50% of older workers still have physically demanding jobs.
For many people, though, working into their golden years simply comes down to lacking enough money to stop working and keep a roof over their heads.
“It’s a tale of two retirements,” Morrissey said. While plenty of older Americans are working good jobs later into life by choice, others have struggled to find their place in the workforce.
CNN
April 15, 2024
(That said, a new paper from left-leaning think tank Economic Policy Institute says economic performance tends to be stronger when Democrats are in power.).
Fortune
April 15, 2024
Across the US, there are 33 states where childcare is more expensive than college, the Economic Policy Institute found. In some areas, infant care can set you back tens of thousands of dollars more than a college education.
Yahoo Finance
April 15, 2024
Cites EPI data on unemployment by race.
Crain's Cleveland Business
April 15, 2024
An estimated 36 million to 60 million Americans work under a non-compete, according to 2019 data from the Economic Policy Institute.
The CT Mirror
April 15, 2024
David Brancaccio: That 2-to-1 ratio. That is typically what we’ve seen over the years?
Valerie Wilson: Yes. In fact, the stability of that relationship between Black and white unemployment is actually documented for almost seven decades in national statistics. That disparity holds up across periods of economic expansion and recession. We see it for all age cohorts, for men and women at nearly every level of education. So, it is a pretty persistent racial disparity and unemployment.
Marketplace Morning Report
April 15, 2024
Almost half of families in the US have no retirement account savings whatsoever, while more than 15 million Americans aged 65 or over are considered economically insecure. “The retirement system does not work for most workers,” according to the Economic Policy Institute – especially not for Black, Latino, lower-income and non-college-educated Americans, though it often fails more affluent, white professionals as well.
The Guardian
April 12, 2024
In 2022, the average earning of all farmworkers was $16.62 per hour – that’s about half of the average hourly wages for all workers in the United States, according to nonprofit think tank the Economic Policy Institute
Blue Ridge Public Radio
April 12, 2024