In today’s workplace, predictability isn’t a guarantee. Research from the Economic Policy Institute found that around 10 percent of the U.S. workforce deals with irregular or on-call scheduling, while seven percent work split or rotating shifts. No one wins with this lack of stability — it creates challenges for employees and leads to higher turnover rates for their employers.
IEN
December 2, 2019
“I definitely think millennials have a bunch to be uniquely annoyed about,” said Josh Bivens, research director at the Economic Policy Institute. “Lots of them graduated into a horrible labor market, and they’ve probably been very stunted in their ability to get on the treadmill of earning enough to actually save anything.”
VICE
December 2, 2019
When Trump signed the executive order, Stephen Yale-Loehr, an immigration law professor at Cornell University, thought the administration would implement its proposed changes through the usual rulemaking process. “I guess I was naive, because instead of doing that, they simply reinterpreted the existing regulations more narrowly,” he says. “Normally I’d ask for more scrutiny of H-1B visas,” says Daniel Costa, director of immigration law and policy at the Economic Policy Institute, a pro-labor think tank. “But this administration, with its anti-immigration bent of mind, is probably not the best one to do it.”
Reveal
December 2, 2019
There is research to support Townsend’s claim. Right-to-work states, which are almost all outside the pro-union Northeast and West Coast, have wages that are, on average, 3.1% lower than pro-union states, according to a 2015 study by the liberal Economic Policy Institute.
Huffington Post
November 27, 2019
According to the Economic Policy Institute’s family budget calculator, a single adult with no children needs an annual salary of $45,517 to survive in Boulder. That number increases to $74,594 with the addition of a child. In comparison, a full-time minimum wage worker in Colorado earns a salary of $23,088 before taxes.
CU Independent
November 27, 2019
The latest episode of The President’s Inbox is live. I sat down with Jennifer Hillman, CFR’s senior fellow for trade and international political economy, and Thea Lee, president of the Economic Policy Institute, to talk about U.S. trade policy.
Council on Foreign Relations
November 27, 2019
Even though the national unemployment rate has been at or below 4% for more than a year, with veteran unemployment rates even lower, the lack of consistently strong wage growth is one of the remaining weaknesses of the labor market in 2019, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Military Officers Association of America
November 26, 2019
The rise in personal loans points in part to a paradox of the current economic expansion. Heidi Shierholz is a senior economist and director of policy for the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. “Nominal wages grew 3.0% year-over-year in October, which is slower than expected in an economy where the unemployment rate has been at or below 4.0% for the past 20 months,” according to her. “Wage growth — which was picking up from late 2017 to late 2018 — has been backsliding this year.”
MultiBriefs: Exclusive
November 26, 2019
When it comes to retirement, many Americans remain financially unprepared. According to the Economic Policy Institute, the median retirement savings balance for the typical working age family is $5,000. The median savings for 32-to-37-year-olds is just $480.
Investopedia
November 26, 2019
The federal minimum wage is worth 17% less than it was 10 years ago and nearly one-third less than it was in 1968, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Woodall’s Campground Management
November 26, 2019