McClellan cited statistics from the Economic Policy Institute that 17% of domestic workers live in poverty. In Virginia, personal care aides make an average of $21,240 a year, while home health aides earn an average of $23,440 per year, according to the same data.
Daily News-Record
February 5, 2020
— The left-leaning Economic Policy Institute found in a new report that the growing trade deficit with China caused the loss of 3.7 million U.S. jobs between 2001 and 2018, the large majority of which were in the manufacturing sector. The full report is here.
Politico
February 5, 2020
California workers have been especially hard hit by the U.S. trade policy with China, the labor think tank Economic Policy Institute reports.
Cal Matters
February 5, 2020
As the deficit has continued to swell, American workers have suffered, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, D.C., generally considered to be left leaning.
Hellenic Shipping News
February 5, 2020
Arizona lost nearly 66,000 jobs, or 2.2% of the state’s workforce from 2001 to 2018 according to the study by the Economic Policy Institute, a pro-labor research group focused on income inequality and related issues.
AZ Central
February 5, 2020
Generational discrimination has contributed to these numbers, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Only 0.0006 percent of venture capital is granted to firms owned by black women, according to a 2018 study by digitalundivided, even though the number of businesses owned by black women increased by 164 percent between 2007 and 2018, according to an American Express study.
NBC News
February 5, 2020
And the black-white wage gap continues to widen across education levels and income distributions, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
Markets Insider
February 5, 2020
“People think that nonprofit workers don’t need unions — that we don’t fit into the mold,” said Kayla Blado, the president of the all-volunteer NPEU and a staffer at the Economic Policy Institute. “But millennials graduated with high levels of student debt and medical bills, which has helped open people’s eyes that we’re not going to get a ‘middle-class’ lifestyle unless we work for it.”
The Washington Post
February 5, 2020
Some research has found that this increase is partly driven by states increasing their minimum wages. States that raised their minimum wage between 2013 and 2018 saw pay for their lowest-paid workers grow more than 50% faster than those that didn’t, according to an analysis from the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. The trend continued in 2019, said Elise Gould, senior economist at EPI.
“Year after year, we’ve seen states increase their minimum wage, either through indexing [for inflation] or legislation, and we have seen faster wage growth at the bottom in those states that have increased their minimum,” she said.
CBS News
February 5, 2020
“It doesn’t necessarily stop people from engaging in bad behavior, but if a worker knows they are going to have a solid paycheck at the end of the week, regardless of what they receive in tips, it gives them a bit of a power to stand up,” says David Cooper, an economist with the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank that advocates for liberal economic policy. Cooper’s research has found that in states with a universal minimum wage, tipped workers have higher take-home pay, and restaurants still operate successfully. “They may feel more empowered to say no to a manager who may be behaving badly towards them, even if that means they get a bad schedule for next week. It just creates a little more stability for them, so they feel like they don’t have to rely on tips for the bulk of their income.”
The Counter
February 5, 2020