Data from the Economic Policy Institute finds teachers in Hawaii spend over five hundred dollars a year out of their own pockets, on school supplies. To help out, American Carpet One gave out over 600 carpets to teachers, for their classroom on Saturday.
KITV
January 8, 2020
“The Trump administration rule is very, very weak,” said Heidi Shierholz, senior economist and director of policy at the Economic Policy Institute. “It is palatable to people who don’t want workers to have overtime protections.”
Cronkite News
January 8, 2020
An Economic Policy Institute report in April says 8.2 million workers are being left behind under the new rules under the Trump administration, compared with 2016 overtime threshold rules proposed and then blocked in federal court in Texas during the Obama administration.
The Salem News
January 8, 2020
Even with the increase on Jan. 1, just 15 percent of salaried workers nationwide will be eligible for overtime pay, down from 63 percent in 1975, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C., think tank that advocates for low-income workers. The bump grants new or strengthened overtime protections to 120,000 workers in Massachusetts, according to the institute. And the proposal to raise the cap to $64,000 in Massachusetts by 2024 — a pair of bills are under consideration by the Ways and Means committees in the House and Senate — would benefit an additional 300,000-plus salaried workers, according to strategic researcher Jeremy Thompson, a former senior policy analyst at the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center.
Boston Globe
January 8, 2020
In the 1970s, more than 60 percent of workers were eligible for overtime pay, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. That figure fell to just 7 percent in 2016. The income threshold hasn’t been increased since 2004.
The Post and Courier
January 8, 2020
Based on a new study by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), about half of surveyed private-sector employers nationwide have contracts with noncompete agreements, affecting about 36 to 60 million workers. Today, noncompetes have evolved from their original purpose—to safeguard intellectual property in fields including technology and medicine—into a default policy to restrain the mobility of workers. In practice, noncompetes punish workers for leaving an employer, making it harder for them to seek higher wages, escape an abusive boss, or start their own business.
The Progressive
January 8, 2020
But that’s not all. These very firms, and their CEOs, like Bucyrus Erie’s Tim Sullivan, promoted free trade agreements like NAFTA that encouraged and protected capital mobility, but did not provide any protection for labor or the environment. They lobbied for favored nation status for China. As a consequence, between its passage in 2001 until 2013 Wisconsin lost 56,938 jobs to China, according to a report by the Economic Policy Institute.
Urban Milwaukee
January 8, 2020
The record number of pay hikes will benefit about 6.8 million workers, according to an analysis from the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, which estimates that the pay gains could range from $150 to as high as $1,700 for full-time, year-round workers, depending on the wage hikes in their regions.
WCBI
January 8, 2020
The surge in higher minimum wage will likely benefit about 6.8 million workers, who will earn an extra $8.2 billion over the course of 2020, according to analysis from the left-leaning think tank Economic Policy Institute. Workers who benefit from the policy change could see their annual pay go up anywhere between $150 and $1,700, on average, depending on the size of the minimum wage increase in their state.
Fox Business
January 8, 2020