Mark Price, a labor economist with Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit research group told 24-7 Wall Street, which conducts socio-economic research, that jobs in the higher-paying finance and insurance sectors tend to cluster in large metropolitan areas with large labor pools, such as Charlotte and the Triangle in North Carolina.
Winston-Salem Journal
November 18, 2019
Uber claims drivers are not part of its core business, arguing that it’s an app that connects drivers and passengers, not a taxi service. In a memo issued in April, the National Labor Relations Board accepted that logic, saying that the drivers were independent contractors because they did not work developing or maintaining the app, but used it as a “referral system.” The NLRB also said that drivers had “entrepreneurial freedom,” because they could set their own hours, work for other companies, and either profit or lose money. “This is illogical, since almost every part-time worker has the freedom to moonlight or pursue a new venture,” the Economic Policy Institute responded in a September report. It noted that drivers can’t set fares or seek or reject passengers on their own, and they can be “deactivated” by the company’s algorithm.
LaborPress.org
November 18, 2019
The problem with our overtime protections is that the salary threshold below which workers are guaranteed time-and-a-half overtime pay when they work more than 40 hours in a week has not been properly updated in decades. As a result, the share of full-time salaried workers guaranteed overtime pay has plummeted from 6 in 10 in 1975 to less than 1 in 10 today.
Crain's Detroit Business
November 18, 2019
The study drew subjects from four cities: Birmingham, Alabama; Chicago, Illinois; Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Oakland, California. Over the period assessed—1990 to 2010—these cities generally had a high unemployment rate, averaging about 22 percent, compared to the national average of 3.6 percent, according to data from DataUSA.io. For 2019, the average minimum wage across the four cities is about $12 per hour, as per numbers pulled from the Economic Policy Institute’s minimum wage tracker.
CityLab
November 18, 2019
Truck driving occupations offer higher earnings than other jobs typically held by workers with a high school diploma, according to the Economic Policy Institute. An October EPI article outlines how the job losses are likely to hit black and Hispanic men harder than their white counterparts.
The Vindicator
November 18, 2019
A single person in New York City can expect to spend an annual total of $51,323 on necessities — more than what the median US worker earns in one year. That’s $4,277 a month, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Costs in this calculation include housing, food, transportation, healthcare, other necessities, and taxes, not including savings or discretionary spending.
Business Insider
November 18, 2019
The S.C. Community Fund holds its annual “Investing in Community” summit. 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center, 1101 Lincoln St., Columbia. Scheduled keynote speakers are Richard Rothstein, author and distinguished fellow Of the Economic Policy Institute, and John Taylor, president and founder of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition.
The Post and Courier
November 18, 2019
According to a study this year by the non-profit Economic Policy Institute (EPI), teachers spend an average of $459 of their own money on school supplies every academic year nationwide. EPI is a Washington think-tank that conducts economic research and analyze economic policies.
Oxford Observer
November 18, 2019
And according to the Economic Policy Institute, Ohio teachers spend, on average, $444 each school year on classroom supplies like pencils, glue, books and more. That’s slightly less than the national average of $459 each school year on supplies. The Economic Policy Institute’s data comes from a National Center for Education Statistics survey from the 2011-12 school year that broke down teacher spending by state. The EPI adjusted the survey data, of spending in 2011 dollars, for inflation to represent 2018 spending.
Sandusky Register
November 18, 2019
According to a 2015 study by the Economic Policy Institute, child care costs more than rent in most areas of the country, and infant care is more expensive than in-state college tuition at public universities in 33 states and the District of Columbia. The burden is particularly heavy for low-income workers. The EPI calculated that a minimum-wage worker in Hawaii, working 40 hours a week, would have to devote her entire salary from January to September to pay for typical infant child care costs in that state.
CreditCards.com
November 18, 2019