The Economic Policy Institute, which advocates for raising the wage, estimates that raising the minimum to $15 by 2025 would lift pay for nearly 32 million workers — or 21 percent of the U.S. workforce — and inject $107 billion in higher wages into the economy.
Politico
January 27, 2021
According to a study of the bill by the Economic Policy Institute, raising the federal minimum wage to $15 would lift the pay of nearly 32 million workers, or 21% of the U.S. workforce.
The study also said that it would aid in narrowing the racial pay gap as 31% of Black Americans and 26% of Latinos make the federal minimum wage.
Breitbart
January 27, 2021
Elise Gould joins The Hill TV to talk about why we need more stimulus.
The Hill
January 27, 2021
Analysis by the Economic Policy Institute suggests this legislation would increase wages for nearly 32 million Americans, including about a third of all Black workers and a quarter of all Latino workers. But, franchise owners are concerned.
Fox News
January 27, 2021
A $15 minimum wage is by no means a new idea, though proponents say the economic crisis triggered by the pandemic increases the urgency to get money into low-wage workers’ pockets. Perhaps more importantly, Democrats are more hopeful now that they have control of the Senate, albeit by the slimmest of margins. An increase would impact an estimated 32 million people, or 21% of the country’s workforce, and would mean an extra $3,300 a year for some workers, according to the Economic Policy Institute.3
The Balance
January 27, 2021
According to an independent analysis conducted by the Economic Policy Institute, the Raise the Wage Act would increase wages for nearly 32 million Americans, including roughly a third of all Black workers and a quarter of all Latino workers. More than half of those who would benefit would be women.
Federal Way Mirror
January 27, 2021
Colorado Politics
January 27, 2021
According to an independent analysis by the Economic Policy Institute, the Raise the Wage Act would benefit nearly 32 million Americans, including a third of all Black workers and 25% of Latino workers. More than half of the workers who would benefit are women.
The Charlotte Post
January 27, 2021
A recent report by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) points out that the official number of unemployed is miscounted in the best of years, made far worse in the age of COVID-19. The methodology itself is skewed. Issues such as overlooking individuals more likely to be unemployed than those included in final calculations lead to an official unemployment rate that was off by 1.5 percentage points at the beginning of 2020.
Mint Press News
January 27, 2021
The Biden Administration is under the false delusion that these international students are the best and brightest in the world, so deserve to stay here permanently. Research by the [left-wing] Economic Policy Institute shows that the majority of these students are not the best and brightest, and are entering low-ranked US universities with low entrance requirements [to get work permit]. Universities profit because international students pay full freight tuition, while American students are graduating with immense student loan debt and having to now compete with OPT work-permit holders.
Breitbart
January 27, 2021
Nearly 32 million Americans would earn more under President Joe Biden’s proposal to more than double the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, according to calculations by the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank.
MSN
January 27, 2021
A study by the Economic Policy Institute found that the Raise the Wage Act would deliver about $3,500 annually for year-round Black and Brown workers.
- A $15 federal minimum wage would benefit 31% of Black workers and 26% of Latinos.
- Almost one in four (23%) of those who would benefit is a Black or Latina woman.
QCityMetro
January 27, 2021
The Raise the Wage Act of 2021 would increase the federal minimum wage to $15 in five steps over the next four years. Beginning in 2026, the federal minimum wage would be indexed to median wage growth. According to an independent analysis conducted by the Economic Policy Institute, the Raise the Wage Act would increase wages for nearly 32 million Americans, including roughly a third of all Black workers and a quarter of all Latino workers.
Western Slope Now
January 27, 2021
- The most recent analysis from the Economic Policy Institute found that increasing the minimum wage to $15 by 2025 would generate $107 billion in higher wages. Their earlier analysis indicates that an increase from $7.25 to $9.80 per hour between 2012 and 2014 would have generated “approximately 100,000 new jobs.”
Center for American Progress
January 27, 2021
According to an independent analysis by the Economic Policy Institute, the Raise the Wage Act would increase wages for nearly 32 million Americans, including roughly a third of all Black workers and a quarter of all Latino workers.
WDTN-TV
January 27, 2021
The left-leaning Economic Policy Institute estimates that weekly wages for men not enrolled in a union would be $52 higher today if union representation had remained at its 1979 level. That’s $2,074 a year. For women, that would mean a $13.80 increase in weekly wages, or $745 a year.
Bangor Daily News
January 27, 2021
“Even if there were not a pandemic, it’s well overdue,” said economist Ben Zipperer of the Economic Policy Institute.
Opponents argue that raising the minimum wage would hurt businesses and force job cuts. The Congressional Budget Office estimated in 2019 it could lead to the loss of 1.3 million jobs.
“Those kinds of scare stories are theoretically possible, but they don’t actually play out in the data,” said Zipperer.
CBS News
January 27, 2021
Though the benefits of an increased federal minimum wage is still debated among economists, David Cooper of the Economic Policy Institute says there’s growing opinion that it would help the economy overall.
Click Lancashire Independent News
January 27, 2021
Baldwin’s office cited a report by the Economic Policy Institute that state’s the legislation, dubbed the Raise the Wage Act, would increase the pay for 32 million Americans, including approximately 1 in 3 of Black workers and a quarter of Latino workers.
The Associated Press
January 27, 2021
An estimated 32 million people would benefit from the bill introduced Tuesday by the House of Representatives to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2025, the progressive Economic Policy Institute (EPI) finds. And the majority of those affected would be essential and front-line workers.
CNBC
January 27, 2021
The Economic Policy Institute says on its website that the legislation includes a “100% federal subsidy for work-sharing in states that already have work-sharing programs.” New York is on the list of states that have work-sharing programs.
CNBC
January 27, 2021
Across the Atlantic, the picture is even more extreme. Analysis by the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington DC-based think tank, showed chief executives of the 350 largest US companies earned an average $21.3m (£16.9m) in 2019. This puts the CEO-to-worker pay ratio at 320 to 1 – more than five times the level in 1989.
BBC
January 27, 2021
The Economic Policy Institute, which advocates for raising the wage, estimates that raising the minimum to $15 by 2025 would lift pay for nearly 32 million workers — or 21 percent of the U.S. workforce — and inject $107 billion in higher wages into the economy.
Politico
January 27, 2021
According to a study of the bill by the Economic Policy Institute, raising the federal minimum wage to $15 would lift the pay of nearly 32 million workers, or 21% of the U.S. workforce.
The study also said that it would aid in narrowing the racial pay gap as 31% of Black Americans and 26% of Latinos make the federal minimum wage.
Breitbart
January 27, 2021
“A few years ago you hardly heard about college graduates taking unpaid internships,” the Economic Policy Institute’s Ross Eisenbrey told The New York Times in 2012, a statement that now feels bleakly quaint. “But now I’ve even heard of people taking unpaid internships after graduating from Ivy League schools.”
The New Republic
January 26, 2021
Nationally, 3,878,000 Americans were considered long-term unemployed (having gone six months without work while looking for work) as of December. That number accounts for fully a third of all unemployed Americans, and the Economic Policy Institute’s Elise Gould tells Bloomberg the percentage is “going to be continuing to rise.”
Grub Street
January 26, 2021
The last time the federal government raised the minimum wage was more than 11 years ago. It’s the longest span of time without an increase in just over 80 years. Now that President Biden is in office and Democrats control the House and Senate, a proposed $15 an hour minimum wage looks possible. But the question still lingers, especially in a pandemic: will this harm or hurt the economy? David Cooper, a senior economic analyst and deputy director of the Economic Analysis and Research Network for the Economic Policy Institute, talks to the Standard.
Texas Standard
January 26, 2021