The left-leaning Economic Policy Institute in the report also said that 57,500 graduate students who are already unionized would lose the ability to collectively bargain with their schools under the September proposal.
Reuters
January 6, 2020
These expectations of Black women to be “strong” and simultaneously physically available are deeply rooted in the racist and sexist labor structures of our society. “The dominant view of black women has been that they should be workers,” the Economic Policy Institute states in a 2019 post. Racism and sexism have historically placed Black women in roles that quite literally serve other people: maids, cooks, nurses, and nannies. We’re expected to not only perform our duties but to perform them graciously with a smile.
Medium
January 6, 2020
This change could affect more than 25,000 Hawaii workers — 6,000 of which will receive new protections under the change, and 19,000 of which that will see strengthened protection — according to the Economic Policy Institute data.
Pacific Business News
January 6, 2020
Over the last few years, each New Year has brought with it state minimum wage increases. Click here to review the expected increases by state in list form, or here to view the Economic Policy Institute’s interactive Minimum Wage Tracker map.
Inc.
January 6, 2020
And employee misclassification is a problem, although various sources differ on how widespread it actually is. A 2015 report by the Economic Policy Institute estimated that between 10 and 20% of businesses misclassify at least one employee in the U.S. If an employer is shirking its duty to its workers, it should be held accountable.
Fast Company
January 6, 2020
It adopts the so-called “ABC” test to determine employee status, according to the labor union-funded Economic Policy Institute (EPI). The test stipulates that workers may only be considered independent contractors when a business proves the workers “a. Are free from control and direction by the hiring company; b. Perform work outside the usual course of business of the hiring entity; and c. Are independently established in that trade, occupation, or business.”
The Epoch Times
January 6, 2020
Every job requires some sort of skill, but the term typically means people with “some kind of specialized skill that requires some higher education credentials or some specific training,” said Heidi Shierholz, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute.
Marketplace
January 6, 2020
Richard Rothstein, Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute and Author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America
“The racial segregation of metropolitan areas nationwide underlies our most serious social problems, enforcing inequalities in education, health, economic opportunity and criminal justice, while contributing to growing political polarization that threatens our very existence as a democracy. We are challenged to remedy a century of public policies that enforced this segregation while we block ongoing discrimination that makes it worse. This report of the National Fair Housing Alliance, the leader of such efforts nationwide, concludes with an inventory of reforms, some quite modest and others more ambitious, that all who care about a more equitable society can embrace.”
National Fair Housing Alliance
January 6, 2020
In a report from the Economic Policy Institute that ranked the nation’s 3,061 counties by an indicator of economic inequality, Chatham came in at 581 from the top. Simply tracing a finger along N.C. Hwy 87. N/U.S. Hwy. 501 on a map, according to Chatham officials in the 2018 annual community assessment, reveals several “statistically significant differences” between the eastern and western halves of the county. In issues like internet access, in-home safety features like smoke detectors and levels of home ownership, the east rises above the west. And, of the community assessment survey participants who said they had trouble accessing healthcare, almost 50 percent of Western Chathamites reported cost as a factor. Only 17.7 percent of residents on the east side reported the same thing.
Chatham News Record
January 6, 2020
In the summer of 2019, the Economic Policy Institute released a report in collaboration with the University of California Berkeley’s Center for the Study of Child Care Employment. Titled “Breaking the silence on early child care and education costs,” the authors examined early care and education systems across California.
Next City
January 6, 2020