The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) released a paper earlier this year arguing that the USMCA’s expected impact on labor is grossly exaggerated and that the USMCA in its current form is unlikely to help wages or employment rise in the U.S.
Inside Sources
November 5, 2019
Just about the only worker protection the Trump-named GOP National Labor Relations Board majority hasn’t successfully banned, yet, is Scabby the Rat. It’s not for lack of trying. NLRB General Counsel Peter Robb, its top enforcement officer, wants to trap and kill Scabby too, the Economic Policy Institute reports. A federal judge in New York state stopped him. But Scabby’s fate is just a symbol. In a comprehensive study of NLRB actions during the GOP Trump government, the pro-worker think tank reports that, as might be expected, the three-member NLRB GOP majority is dismantling worker protections wholesale, working from – among other sources – a U.S. Chamber of Commerce wish list.
People’s World
November 5, 2019
Labor advocates point to a study from the Economic Policy Institute that concluded that drivers nationwide take home an average of $9.21 an hour after expenses.
Capital & Main
November 5, 2019
Rothstein is a senior fellow at the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley. He’s also a distinguished fellow at the Economic Policy Institute and a senior fellow, emeritus, at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He lives in Berkeley.
Davis Enterprise
November 5, 2019
One in four families spends more than 10 percent of their income on child care, according to a 2016 report from Carsey School of Public Policy. Low-income families spend 19.8 percent, or nearly double that. For some segments of the population, including New York hospitality workers, the percentages are even higher. In the state of New York, the average cost of child care for an infant is $15,394, or $1,283 per month. Even with the recent minimum wage hike, the Economic Policy Institute estimates it would take 26 weeks for a single-income family earning $15 an hour to cover the cost of child care for that one infant. Add a four-year-old to the equation and you’re looking at $27,752. Put another way, that’s 98 percent of the income of an entry-level server, host, or cook in New York City.
Food & Wine
November 5, 2019
Barclay cited an Economic Policy Institute report from 2019 that said “at every educational level, women were paid less than their male counterparts. The average wage for men with a college degree is higher than the average wage for a woman with an advanced degree.”
Grand Rapids Business Journal
November 4, 2019
A 30-page report issued in mid-October by the Economic Policy Institute, however, suggests they may instead be a “last hurrah.”
MagicValley.com
November 4, 2019
We also get an update on the Chicago Teachers Union, who have a tentative agreement and are back in the classroom as we speak, and the journalists at WHYY who voted to unionize this week. We dig into the Trump National Labor Relations Board’s record with Celine McNicholas from the Economic Policy Institute, and find out what happened to the miners from Blackjewel who occupied the railroad tracks and held up the coal train when their company suddenly went bankrupt and cut them all loose. For Argh, we consider the revolt in Chile, where neoliberalism began, and from right here at Dissent, why we need a working-class media.
Dissent Magazine
November 4, 2019
The Nonprofit Professional Employees Union (NPEU), IFPTE Local 70 represents professionals employed at over a dozen nonprofit organizations, including employees at Economic Policy Institute, the Center for American Progress, and Community Change. With several hundred members, NPEU gives nonprofit workers a voice to strengthen their workplaces and continue to do work that makes a difference in people’s lives.
Nonprofit Professional Employees Union
November 4, 2019
No matter what a house or apartment that’s been converted into a short-term rental may look like, the fact remains that every unit that’s taken out of the actual housing market and turned into an unlicensed hotel unit puts increasing stress on communities. According to a January report by the Economic Policy Institute that analyzed current studies on the STR phenomenon, “Because housing demand is relatively inelastic (people’s demand for somewhere to live doesn’t decline when prices increase), even small changes in housing supply (like those caused by converting long-term rental properties to Airbnb units) can cause significant price increases.”
Daily Kos
November 4, 2019