And employee misclassification is a problem, although various sources differ on how widespread it actually is. A 2015 report by the Economic Policy Institute estimated that between 10 and 20% of businesses misclassify at least one employee in the U.S. If an employer is shirking its duty to its workers, it should be held accountable.
Fast Company
January 6, 2020
It adopts the so-called “ABC” test to determine employee status, according to the labor union-funded Economic Policy Institute (EPI). The test stipulates that workers may only be considered independent contractors when a business proves the workers “a. Are free from control and direction by the hiring company; b. Perform work outside the usual course of business of the hiring entity; and c. Are independently established in that trade, occupation, or business.”
The Epoch Times
January 6, 2020
Every job requires some sort of skill, but the term typically means people with “some kind of specialized skill that requires some higher education credentials or some specific training,” said Heidi Shierholz, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute.
Marketplace
January 6, 2020
Richard Rothstein, Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute and Author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America
“The racial segregation of metropolitan areas nationwide underlies our most serious social problems, enforcing inequalities in education, health, economic opportunity and criminal justice, while contributing to growing political polarization that threatens our very existence as a democracy. We are challenged to remedy a century of public policies that enforced this segregation while we block ongoing discrimination that makes it worse. This report of the National Fair Housing Alliance, the leader of such efforts nationwide, concludes with an inventory of reforms, some quite modest and others more ambitious, that all who care about a more equitable society can embrace.”
National Fair Housing Alliance
January 6, 2020
In a report from the Economic Policy Institute that ranked the nation’s 3,061 counties by an indicator of economic inequality, Chatham came in at 581 from the top. Simply tracing a finger along N.C. Hwy 87. N/U.S. Hwy. 501 on a map, according to Chatham officials in the 2018 annual community assessment, reveals several “statistically significant differences” between the eastern and western halves of the county. In issues like internet access, in-home safety features like smoke detectors and levels of home ownership, the east rises above the west. And, of the community assessment survey participants who said they had trouble accessing healthcare, almost 50 percent of Western Chathamites reported cost as a factor. Only 17.7 percent of residents on the east side reported the same thing.
Chatham News Record
January 6, 2020
In the summer of 2019, the Economic Policy Institute released a report in collaboration with the University of California Berkeley’s Center for the Study of Child Care Employment. Titled “Breaking the silence on early child care and education costs,” the authors examined early care and education systems across California.
Next City
January 6, 2020
AL’s attempts to run the company in a radically ethical manner includes being transparent about salaries. The Economic Policy Institute reports that the average CEO salary is 271 times higher than the average employee compensation. AL’s salary is about twice as much as the lowest-paid employee — $38 versus $20 per hour.
Ravishly
January 6, 2020
- Celine McNicholas and others, “Unlawful: U.S. employers are charged with violating federal law in 41.5% of all union election campaigns” (Washington: Economic Policy Institute, 2019), available at https://www.epi.org/publication/unlawful-employer-opposition-to-union-election-campaigns/. ↩
Center for American Progress
January 6, 2020
From 2016 to 2017, just over 41 percent of all private-sector employers were charged with violating federal labor law in elections supervised by the NLRB, the Economic Policy Institute reported earlier this month. EPI also estimated that employers spent around $340 million on consultants and attorneys who specialize in “union avoidance,” better known to most as union-busting. EPI says its data affirms earlier findings, published in 2009, that “anti-union activity may be increasing among employers.” Hearst is part of a trend, and not a progressive one.
New York Magazine
January 6, 2020
Another article by Shawn Langlois via MarketWatch revealed much the same discussing a recent publication from the Economic Policy Institute. That study also revealed the increasingly inadequate retirement savings of Americans, as well as the dispersion of wealth among income earners.
Real Investment Advice
January 6, 2020