The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) determined in 2015 study that about 15% of caretakers compared to roughly 7% of workers in other occupations lived in poverty.
Independent Journal Review
March 3, 2020
In the current political environment, it can be hard to separate the wheat from the chaff when it comes to trade deficits, job losses and China. To help cut through all the noise, the Economic Policy Institute conducted an extensive study of U.S.-China trade data to determine the net amount of job losses across America. Data from the U.S. International Trade Commission DataWeb was conformed to Bureau of Labor Statistics industry classifications to determine the results, which were further parsed by state and by Congressional district.
GoBankingRates
March 3, 2020
“It’s funny that he would focus on the blue collar boom because that’s kind of the weakest part of the aggregate picture at the moment,” said Josh Bivens, Director of Research with the Economic Policy Institute in Washington.
As far as the areas where job growth is occurring?
“Lots of service sector jobs, healthcare, always an area of growth in this economy,” Bivens said, adding that wage growth is slow to stagnant.
FOX 11 News
March 3, 2020
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Travelers planning an affordable spring break trip should be aware of the ‘Airbnb effect.’ Areas with a rise in Airbnb rentals, for example, often see a jump in housing prices and other negative aspects of tourism, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Public
March 3, 2020
“The onus is on the worker to prove direct control. It’s an incredibly difficult standard to meet,” Celine McNicholas, director of government affairs at the Economic Policy Institute, told LaborPress. “It incentivizes further fissioning and complicated contracting relationships to get out of following the law.”
LaborPress.org
March 3, 2020
In a statement, officials from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a progressive think tank, criticized the NLRB’s rule for narrowing the circumstances under which a firm can be found to be a joint employer and said it would enable firms to avoid responsibility and liability under the NLRA. In a public comment on the proposed rule, EPI estimated the regulation would cost subcontracted and temporary U.S. workers $1.3 billion in lost wage increases due to its potential impact on collective bargaining.
“Weakening the joint-employer standard has serious adverse consequences for working people, such as depriving workers of the ability to bargain with the employer contracting for their services through an intermediary, who in most cases is the employer with ultimate control over wages, hours, and working conditions,” Celine McNicholas, EPI director of government affairs, and Heidi Shierholz, EPI senior economist and director of policy, wrote.
WasteDive
March 3, 2020
“This far into an expansion, with unemployment as low as it is, we shouldn’t be seeing incomes for low-income households falling in over a dozen states, and growth slowing down in a dozen more,” says Thea Lee, president of the Economic Policy Institute, which conducted the analysis in partnership with Capital & Main. “Stock market highs may be great for wealthy households at the top, but they don’t help families at the bottom put food on the table.”
Fast Company
March 3, 2020
Keep scrolling to read why Trump’s regulatory relief numbers shouldn’t be taken “at face value,” according to Heidi Shierholz, director of policy and an economist at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, and why Labor needs to act fast if it wants to wrap up a fiduciary rule reboot proposal this year.
The question is, however, “even if you take those numbers at face value, which I don’t think we should,” Shierholz opined, “what kinds of regulating and deregulating are they [the administration] doing? Is it actually good for the American people? The answer is a huge no” when it comes to the Labor Department.
ThinkAdvisor
March 3, 2020