Arizona is among 18 states where the minimum wage automatically will be adjusted to cost of living increases, according to the Economic Policy Institute. State lawmakers last year attempted to lower the minimum wage based on such factors as attending college and the number of hours worked, but the move failed.
Cronkite News
March 3, 2020
A study done by the Economic Policy Institute showed that use of mandatory arbitration rose after a series of Supreme Court decisions that began in 1991.
Queens Ledger
March 3, 2020
“There’s a lot of turnover in a low wage labor market,” Heidi Shierholz, senior economist and director of policy at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute (EPI), told Yahoo Finance. “So if we have an employment decline in a labor market like that, it doesn’t necessarily mean people are getting pink slips. You have people going in and out of jobs, so there are fewer jobs. It just means that people spend a little more time looking for jobs than they otherwise would have. But then when they do get the jobs, they make a lot more money.”
Yahoo Finance
March 3, 2020
- See Julia Wolfe, Janelle Jones, and David Cooper, ‘Fair workweek’ laws help more than 1.8 million workers: Laws promote workplace flexibility and protect against unfair scheduling practices. Economic Policy Institute, Report, July 19, 2018. Also see: https://nwlc-ciw49tixgw5lbab.stackpathdns.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Fair-Schedules-Factsheet-v2.pdf
Ladies Want More
March 3, 2020
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