In the 1970s, more than 60 percent of workers were eligible for overtime pay, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. That figure fell to just 7 percent in 2016. The income threshold hasn’t been increased since 2004.
The Post and Courier
January 8, 2020
Based on a new study by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), about half of surveyed private-sector employers nationwide have contracts with noncompete agreements, affecting about 36 to 60 million workers. Today, noncompetes have evolved from their original purpose—to safeguard intellectual property in fields including technology and medicine—into a default policy to restrain the mobility of workers. In practice, noncompetes punish workers for leaving an employer, making it harder for them to seek higher wages, escape an abusive boss, or start their own business.
The Progressive
January 8, 2020
But that’s not all. These very firms, and their CEOs, like Bucyrus Erie’s Tim Sullivan, promoted free trade agreements like NAFTA that encouraged and protected capital mobility, but did not provide any protection for labor or the environment. They lobbied for favored nation status for China. As a consequence, between its passage in 2001 until 2013 Wisconsin lost 56,938 jobs to China, according to a report by the Economic Policy Institute.
Urban Milwaukee
January 8, 2020
The record number of pay hikes will benefit about 6.8 million workers, according to an analysis from the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, which estimates that the pay gains could range from $150 to as high as $1,700 for full-time, year-round workers, depending on the wage hikes in their regions.
WCBI
January 8, 2020
The surge in higher minimum wage will likely benefit about 6.8 million workers, who will earn an extra $8.2 billion over the course of 2020, according to analysis from the left-leaning think tank Economic Policy Institute. Workers who benefit from the policy change could see their annual pay go up anywhere between $150 and $1,700, on average, depending on the size of the minimum wage increase in their state.
Fox Business
January 8, 2020
Minimum wages are scheduled to increase in 22 states between late 2019 and the start of 2020, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
MarketWatch
January 8, 2020
The Economic Policy Institute, a champion of raising the national minimum wage to $15, said workers in every region will soon need that amount to maintain a modest but adequate standard of living.
NACS
January 8, 2020
- Fourteen states have hiked their minimum wages, with an additional seven states experiencing an automatic cost-of-living raise to the minimum threshold. That’s nearly 7 million employees who got a pay raise on January 1, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Three more states and Washington, D.C., will increase their minimum wage during 2020.
Daily Press
January 8, 2020
“You had an extended period with no change [in the federal minimum wage],” said Cooper, senior economic adviser at the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit Washington, D.C.-based think tank that focuses on low- and middle-income workers. “You had two cities recognizing their workers needed more than the minimum. They were really at the front of the pack. They have been vindicated.”
Santa Fe New Mexican
January 8, 2020