Employers were accused of illegally interfering with union campaigns in nearly half of all federally supervised union elections in 2016 and 2017, according to the report from the Economic Policy Institute. For the report, the D.C.-based nonprofit, which seeks “to include the needs of low- and middle-income workers in economic policy discussions” — analyzed “unfair labor practice” charges filed with the federal National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
The Philadelphia Inquirer
December 11, 2019
EPI union membership chart.
Presse-toi à gauche
December 11, 2019
The data makes that clear: Today, teaching remains predominantly female, with women serving as more than 75 percent of the nation’s 3.7 million teachers. And according to a 2018 study conducted by Sylvia Allegretto and Lawrence Mishel of the Economic Policy Institute, female teachers earned 15.6 percent less in wages than women in comparable fields, and in no state did teachers earn more than other college graduates.
The Washington Post
December 11, 2019
That may be true, in the aggregate. But the question is: whose retirement incomes and savings? Monique Morrissey of the labor-supported Economic Policy Institute presents evidence that, just as income inequality for those in their working years has soared, so has inequality in the distribution of retirement resources.
Los Angeles Times
December 11, 2019
Richard Rothstein, Distinguished Fellow, Economic Policy Institute; Senior Fellow, emeritus, Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and of the Haas Institute at the University of California, Berkeley
Center for American Progress
December 11, 2019
A workers’ board complements a minimum wage floor. Raising the statutory minimum wage is a crucial policy for increasing wages at the bottom end of the wage spectrum. The real value of the federal minimum wage has eroded by 31 percent since its peak in 1968 and by 17 percent in the past decade alone.7 The Economic Policy Institute estimates that nearly 40 million workers would directly or indirectly benefit by raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour.8 A workers’ board increases compensation for low-income workers as well as those with more middle-class incomes, therefore working in tandem with increases in the minimum wage. Indeed, when the economist Arindrajit Dube simulated the effects of wage boards, he found that “wage boards are much better positioned to deliver gains to middle-wage jobs than a single minimum pay standard.”9 Workers’ boards can also set additional standards such as for fair schedules and paid leave.
Center for American Progress
December 11, 2019
In 2019, the federal minimum wage was $7.25 an hour, though some cities gave their employees a little bit more. We looked at data from the Economic Policy Institute to see which cities gave the biggest boosts to minimum wage workers.
MSN
December 11, 2019
“People are constantly trying to curry favor” with the deals, says Robert Scott, a senior economist at the pro-labor Economic Policy Institute. “They bring [Trump] favors and they know he likes press releases.”
Forbes
December 11, 2019
Over 40,000 Arizona jobs would be lost if Republicans’ lawsuit to strike down pre-existing condition coverage protections is successful, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Insurance News Net
December 11, 2019
Millona and others who closely follow H-1B visas say the program has been purposefully hampered by the President Donald Trump Administration, which wants to ensure Americans have the first crack at jobs over immigrants. Critics of the program like the Washington D.C. think tank Economic Policy Institute argue major H-1B employers use the program for cheaper labor for outsourcing work.
Grant Welker
December 11, 2019