LATINA PAY GAP: As of today, Latina workers are paid the same as their white male counterparts. That’s the good news. The bad news, according to an Economic Policy Institute report, is that Latinas are paid the same as non-Latino men were paid last year; in other words, Latina workers had to work eleven additional months to earn the same as their white male counterparts did in 2018. Yet another way of saying this is that Latinas earn 53 cents on their white male counterparts’ dollar. The pay gap “persists across the wage distribution, within occupations, and among those with the same amount of education,” according to EPI.
Politico
November 22, 2019
Workers’ rights are a key election platform for the Democratic candidates as they look to appeal to working and middle-class voters who have seen labour rights eroded, minimal wage increases and the rise of an increasingly precarious working environment. A recent study by the Economic Policy Institute found that CEO compensation in the US has grown 940% since 1978. But typical worker compensation has risen only 12% during that time.
The Guardian
November 22, 2019
The long-term trend of wages not keeping up with the prices of essentials hasn’t improved much, as it’s been reported that minimum-wage workers can’t afford a two-bedroom apartment anywhere in the US. (The Economic Policy Institute—7/19/18, 2/5/19—found that if the minimum wage tracked productivity growth since the 1960s, it would now be over $20 an hour.)
Truthdig
November 22, 2019
The Economic Policy Institute recently found that corporate boards have seen fit to increase CEO pay by 940% since 1978 while compensation for the typical worker has risen only 12%.
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
November 22, 2019
The big picture: With a national unemployment rate of less than 4%, public sector jobs are not as enticing for experienced workers who can command higher salaries in the private sector.
- State and local government employees made 3.7% to 8.2% less than their counterparts in the private sector in 2018, per the Economic Policy Institute.
Axios
November 22, 2019
As my colleague Michelle Chen noted on a recent episode of our podcast Belabored, “Nonprofit is a legal and financial designation, it’s not a stamp of ethical quality.” In that same episode, Kayla Blado, president of the NPEU and a staffer at the Economic Policy Institute, explains in an interview that nonprofit workers are often willing to work harder and longer in the service of the mission, and that their drive to organize is often coming from that same place of commitment to that mission.
“They don’t want to jump ship,” she says, if the working conditions leave something to be desired, They want to stay and make the workplace better.
Common Dreams
November 22, 2019
During the meeting at Antioch University, Richard Rothstein, a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute and author of “The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America,” will discuss the challenges of these issues and opportunities to fix the ongoing impact of local, state, and federal policies that have racially segregated cities all across the nation.
Culver City News
November 22, 2019
There may not be enough investors in this sweet spot. According to the Economic Policy Institute, nearly half of U.S. families have no retirement savings at all. And among those who do, the median family’s retirement account contains just $60,000, according to the latest Survey of Consumer Finances from the Federal Reserve.
MarketWatch
November 22, 2019
What happened in Creve Coeur to the Venables and the other black families was not unique for the times in St. Louis, according to “The Making of Ferguson: Public Policies at the Root of its Troubles,” a report produced by the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute after the 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown.
STL Jewish Light
November 22, 2019
In fact, some people – including those from the Economic Policy Institute – have posited that a minimum wage increase will actually lead to an increase in employment because of the effects of giving low-wage workers a raise. Other advantages to restaurants may include lower turnover rates and better job performance.
UBNow
November 22, 2019