TRANSITIONS — Eve Tahmincioglu is now communications director at the Economic Policy Institute. She previously was executive editor and digital director for Directors & Boards, Private Company Director and Family Business, and is an NBC alum. … Brennan Murray is now a public policy senior associate at VIPKid. He previously was a senior associate at McLarty Associates China.
Politico
February 3, 2020
“The changes embodied in the USMCA still constitute Band-Aids on a fundamentally flawed agreement and process,” said Thea Lee of the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). “The USMCA will in no way offset or reverse the massive devastation caused by the original NAFTA agreement.”
The McDonough County Voice
January 24, 2020
In a paper analyzing the BLS numbers, Heidi Shierholz, senior economist for the Washington-based Economic Policy Institute, a labor think tank, suggested that “the erosion of union coverage is not because workers don’t want unions anymore – survey data show a higher share of nonunion workers today say they would vote for a union than was the case 40 years ago,” she wrote.
The Kansas City Star
January 24, 2020
According to an analysis conducted by the Economic Policy Institute, teachers are paid almost 20 percent less than other similar professions. In Alabama, the wage gap is closer to 30 percent. And while teachers do typically have better benefit packages, those benefits still do not make up for the pay gap.
Alabama Political Reporter
January 24, 2020
Recent studies demonstrate the devastating impact of right-to-work laws on wages. A groundbreaking study from Princeton University argues one of the biggest factors in increasing income inequality is the decline in union membership. Princeton was able to study the effects of union membership while controlling for variables such as education, skill, and race. What the study found is that on average over the last 80 years, union workers make around 15-20 percent more than non-union workers in the same field. Indeed, a 2018 analysis from the Economic Policy Institute found that the hourly wage of men in right-to-work states is $18.25, compared with $20.78 in non-right-to-work states, a difference of nearly 14 percent. The pattern of lower wages is even more pronounced for women and people of color. Right-to-work laws have a disproportionate impact on minorities because of their greater rates of work in unionized industries.
Connection Newspapers
January 24, 2020
According to the Economic Policy Institute, more than 90 percent of African Americans ages 25 to 29 have a high school diploma. One in four African Americans now holds a college degree, up from just 10 percent in 1968. The average life expectancy for African Americans has also increased by 12 years since then.
Lake Norman Media Group
January 24, 2020
Colorado’s new COMPS Order also expands minimum wage coverage and other protections such as rest breaks for other workers in the state. The campaign that led to the COMPS Order was driven by a broad coalition, including Towards Justice, the Bell Policy Center, and others, with support from NELP and the Economic Policy Institute.
NELP
January 24, 2020
What 1 minimum wage chart tells us about the labor market A well-known factoid in American economic debates is that wages used to grow with productivity, but they don’t anymore. There’s a particularly famous chart, courtesy of the Economic Policy Institute, that shows hourly pay for the typical U.S. household increasing…
Business Insider
January 24, 2020
According to the Economic Policy Institute, nearly 54 percent of nonunion private companies use mandatory arbitration contracts.
SHRM
January 24, 2020
Elise Gould, the senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, also said about this trend: ‘In recessions in general, men lose more jobs than women. That is because jobs in cyclical sectors like industrials and energy tend to employ more men than women, and are often the first to dwindle in a downturn’.
Evoke
January 24, 2020