“It really does feel like a systemic change,” said Thea Lee, president of the Economic Policy Institute where Bernstein once worked. “Before, it was all about the deficit, deficit, deficit — and anyone who did not agree was sidelined. Now, it is almost the flip side,” she said.
Progressive values have permeated Biden’s personnel decisions, too. The administration has hired policy experts from Warren’s office and liberal groups such as the Roosevelt Institute, Economic Policy Institute and Center on Budget and Policy Priorities — a contrast with the think tanks such as the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget that previously held more sway.
Bloomberg
February 18, 2021
Economist Ben Zipperer with the Economic Policy Institute sees the Raise the Wage Act as “not just moral policy” but “also good economics.”
“A $15 minimum wage by 2025 would generate $107 billion in higher wages for workers, boosting annual earnings for the average affected year-round worker by $3,300,” he said in a statement last month.
Common Dreams
February 18, 2021
Democrats Introduce Bill to Raise Minimum Wage to $15 by 2025. The Raise the Wage Act of 2021 was introduced on Tuesday. If passed, it would gradually increase the federal minimum wage over five years to reach $15. The Raise the Wage Act is a critical step toward lifting hardworking people out of poverty, .., House Labor Chair Robert Scott, via statement. … addressing income inequality, and building back a better economy where everyone can succeed, House Labor Chair Robert Scott, via statement. The bill also proposes “phasing out subminimum wages for tipped workers, youth workers and workers with disabilities …”. … and making sure the value of minimum wage doesn’t decrease over time by tying it to inflation. According to the Economic Policy Institute, 32 million Americans would see their wages increased by the Act. In the richest country in the history of the world, if you work 40 hours a week, you should not be living in poverty. , Incoming Senate Budget Chair Bernie Sanders, via statement. Minimum wage must be a living wage, enabling people to live with dignity, Incoming Senate Budget Chair Bernie Sanders, via statement. The federal minimum wage has not been increased in over 10 years
Beatrice Daily Sun
February 18, 2021
Supporters say the coronavirus has made a higher minimum wage all the more urgent since workers earning it are disproportionately people of color. The liberal Economic Policy Institute found that more than 19% of Hispanic workers and more than 14% of Black workers earned hourly wages that kept them below federal poverty guidelines in 2017.
PBS Newshour
February 18, 2021
Advocates say that raising wages at the bottom of the pay scale would help relieve income inequality, including racial disparities in earnings. The liberal Economic Policy Institute estimates that 31 percent of African Americans and 26 percent of Latinos would receive a raise if the federal minimum wage were elevated to $15 an hour.
PBS Newshour
February 18, 2021
What do gymnast Simone Biles, writers Agatha Christie and Jorge Luis Borges, and architect Antoni Gaudí have in common? They were all homeschooled, for reasons varying from health, parents’ need to travel, parents’ preferences, or their specific learning needs.
USA Today
February 18, 2021
A more recent study from the Employment Policies Institute, a conservative group associated with the restaurant industry, pegs the number of jobs that could be lost at 2 million, while the “restaurant and bar industry will account for 45% of total job losses.” (This research organization shouldn’t be confused with the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal-leaning group that has its own research which comes to the opposite conclusion of its near namesake.)
Yahoo
February 18, 2021
But proponents argue that better-quality studies tend to show that increases in the minimum wage do not hurt employment. The CBO did not properly weight the higher-quality studies in its analysis, said Heidi Shierholz, senior economist at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
CNN
February 18, 2021
“It really does feel like a systemic change,” said Thea Lee, president of the Economic Policy Institute where Bernstein once worked. “Before, it was all about the deficit, deficit, deficit — and anyone who did not agree was sidelined. Now, it is almost the flip side,” she said.
Progressive values have permeated Biden’s personnel decisions, too. The administration has hired policy experts from Warren’s office and liberal groups such as the Roosevelt Institute, Economic Policy Institute and Center on Budget and Policy Priorities — a contrast with the think tanks such as the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget that previously held more sway.
Bloomberg
February 18, 2021
Economist Ben Zipperer with the Economic Policy Institute sees the Raise the Wage Act as “not just moral policy” but “also good economics.”
“A $15 minimum wage by 2025 would generate $107 billion in higher wages for workers, boosting annual earnings for the average affected year-round worker by $3,300,” he said in a statement last month.
Common Dreams
February 18, 2021
Democrats Introduce Bill to Raise Minimum Wage to $15 by 2025. The Raise the Wage Act of 2021 was introduced on Tuesday. If passed, it would gradually increase the federal minimum wage over five years to reach $15. The Raise the Wage Act is a critical step toward lifting hardworking people out of poverty, .., House Labor Chair Robert Scott, via statement. … addressing income inequality, and building back a better economy where everyone can succeed, House Labor Chair Robert Scott, via statement. The bill also proposes “phasing out subminimum wages for tipped workers, youth workers and workers with disabilities …”. … and making sure the value of minimum wage doesn’t decrease over time by tying it to inflation. According to the Economic Policy Institute, 32 million Americans would see their wages increased by the Act. In the richest country in the history of the world, if you work 40 hours a week, you should not be living in poverty. , Incoming Senate Budget Chair Bernie Sanders, via statement. Minimum wage must be a living wage, enabling people to live with dignity, Incoming Senate Budget Chair Bernie Sanders, via statement. The federal minimum wage has not been increased in over 10 years
Beatrice Daily Sun
February 18, 2021
Supporters say the coronavirus has made a higher minimum wage all the more urgent since workers earning it are disproportionately people of color. The liberal Economic Policy Institute found that more than 19% of Hispanic workers and more than 14% of Black workers earned hourly wages that kept them below federal poverty guidelines in 2017.
PBS Newshour
February 18, 2021
Advocates say that raising wages at the bottom of the pay scale would help relieve income inequality, including racial disparities in earnings. The liberal Economic Policy Institute estimates that 31 percent of African Americans and 26 percent of Latinos would receive a raise if the federal minimum wage were elevated to $15 an hour.
PBS Newshour
February 18, 2021
Economist Ben Zipperer with the Economic Policy Institute sees the Raise the Wage Act as “not just moral policy” but “also good economics.”
“A $15 minimum wage by 2025 would generate $107 billion in higher wages for workers, boosting annual earnings for the average affected year-round worker by $3,300,” he said in a statement last month.
Common Dreams
February 18, 2021
Democrats Introduce Bill to Raise Minimum Wage to $15 by 2025. The Raise the Wage Act of 2021 was introduced on Tuesday. If passed, it would gradually increase the federal minimum wage over five years to reach $15. The Raise the Wage Act is a critical step toward lifting hardworking people out of poverty, .., House Labor Chair Robert Scott, via statement. … addressing income inequality, and building back a better economy where everyone can succeed, House Labor Chair Robert Scott, via statement. The bill also proposes “phasing out subminimum wages for tipped workers, youth workers and workers with disabilities …”. … and making sure the value of minimum wage doesn’t decrease over time by tying it to inflation. According to the Economic Policy Institute, 32 million Americans would see their wages increased by the Act. In the richest country in the history of the world, if you work 40 hours a week, you should not be living in poverty. , Incoming Senate Budget Chair Bernie Sanders, via statement. Minimum wage must be a living wage, enabling people to live with dignity, Incoming Senate Budget Chair Bernie Sanders, via statement. The federal minimum wage has not been increased in over 10 years
Beatrice Daily Sun
February 18, 2021
Supporters say the coronavirus has made a higher minimum wage all the more urgent since workers earning it are disproportionately people of color. The liberal Economic Policy Institute found that more than 19% of Hispanic workers and more than 14% of Black workers earned hourly wages that kept them below federal poverty guidelines in 2017.
PBS Newshour
February 18, 2021
Advocates say that raising wages at the bottom of the pay scale would help relieve income inequality, including racial disparities in earnings. The liberal Economic Policy Institute estimates that 31 percent of African Americans and 26 percent of Latinos would receive a raise if the federal minimum wage were elevated to $15 an hour.
PBS Newshour
February 18, 2021
+ “Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 by 2025 would benefit 27 million workers and would lead to a 10-year increase in wages of $333 billion for the low-wage work force—the same work force that has borne the brunt of the COVID-19 economic shock and worked in essential jobs that have kept the economy going,” the Economic Policy Institute reported on on Feb. 8.
Ms. Magazine
February 17, 2021
“We believe that the CBO’s assumptions on the scale of job loss are just wrong and inappropriately inflated relative to what cutting-edge economics literature would indicate,” The Economic Policy Institute wrote in a blog post on the report. “The median employment effect of the minimum wage across studies of low-wage workers is essentially zero, according to a 2019 review of the evidence.”
Business Insider
February 17, 2021
According to the Economic Policy Institute, the unemployment rate for workers ages 16-24 jumped from 8.4 percent to 24.4 percent between spring 2019 and spring 2020, while the rate for ages 25 and older rose from 2.8 percent to 11.3 percent.
Rewire
February 17, 2021
Research has shown that a minimum wage increase to $15 an hour would be a huge boon to Americans and the economy, lifting the wages of 32 million workers, including nearly 60 percent of workers whose total family incomes are below the poverty line, according to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). It would particularly be helpful for Black and Latino workers, who are on average paid less than white workers, EPI says.
Truthout
February 17, 2021
A minimum wage increase would raise pay for 32 million workers, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Although it would likely be beneficial for millions of Americans, the Congressional Budget Office found that this hike would lift 900,000 Americans out of poverty but could also mean a loss of 1.4 million jobs.
Business Insider
February 17, 2021
According to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a nonpartisan think tank, H-2A workers are already underpaid compared to other workers.
“In 2019, the average wage of all nonsupervisory farmworkers was $13.99 per hour, according to USDA, while the average wage for all workers in 2019 was $26.53 per hour, meaning the farmworker wage was just 53% of the average for all workers,” read an EPI post. “And the average wage for production and nonsupervisory nonfarm workers—the most logical cohort for workers outside of agriculture to compare with farmworkers—was $23.51.
The Salinas Californian
February 17, 2021
Several economists have offered critiques of the CBO’s job loss projections. Arindrajit Dube, a professor of economics at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, previously told Insider that he found the projections “pessimistic,” and the Economic Policy Institute released its own blog post discussing the report’s projections.
Business Insider
February 17, 2021
On average, Black workers are paid 73 cents on the white dollar; Black men make only 71 cents of what their white male counterparts earn, with Black women making 64 cents to the white male dollar, according to data obtained from the Economic Policy Institute.
Spectrum News
February 17, 2021
Boston Herald
February 17, 2021
But proponents argue that better-quality studies tend to show that increases in the minimum wage do not hurt employment. The CBO did not properly weight the higher-quality studies in its analysis, said Heidi Shierholz, senior economist at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
CNN
February 17, 2021
Along with a D.C.-based energy company, Revolution Solar, Wise has started a round of community workshops to introduce D.C. residents to the job opportunities offered by the solar industry. Wise, who is not an employee of the company, is trying to bring awareness of those possibilities as the city deals with a Black unemployment rate of 11.3 percent compared to a White unemployment rate of 2 percent in 2020, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Washington Post
February 17, 2021
“It really does feel like a systemic change,” said Thea Lee, president of the Economic Policy Institute. “Before, it was all about the deficit, deficit, deficit — and anyone who did not agree was sidelined. Now, it is almost the flip side,” she said.
Bloomberg Government
February 17, 2021