Yet even when black Americans have earned college-level degrees or credentials, they still earn less than their white counterparts on average. Carnevale’s research finds that 75 percent of white workers with a bachelor’s degree or more are likely to hold a “good” job, compared to 68 percent of blacks with comparable education. The Economic Policy Institute, meanwhile, finds that wages for black college graduates fell 0.3 percent from 2015 to 2019 at the same time wages for white college graduates grew by 6.6 percent over the same period.
Washington Monthly
December 11, 2019
If the cause was sectoral, the cures should be sectoral. This was the argument of economists Jeff Faux and Gar Alperovitz, who ran a small think tank that would later merge into the Economic Policy Institute.
The American Prospect
December 11, 2019
In 2017, an estimated 28% to 47% of private sector workers were subject to non-compete agreements, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
CNN
December 11, 2019
That’s according to Tuesday findings from researchers at Cornell University and the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, who say lawmakers need to ban the provisions.
MarketWatch
December 11, 2019
As the Federal Trade Commission considers whether to rein in noncompete clauses, the Economic Policy Institute has released a report that at least 36 million workers in the private sector (over a quarter of the workforce) are now subject to them.
Broadcasting+Cable
December 11, 2019
Half of U.S. businesses ask at least some of their workers to sign so-called noncompete agreements, which limit where or for whom they can work in the future, according to a study published Tuesday by the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal-leaning think tank.
CBS News
December 11, 2019
Nearly half of U.S. companies have required at least some of their employees to sign noncompete agreements, a study released today from the Economic Policy Institute finds.
Why it matters: The agreements force workers to sign away their right to take jobs in similar fields, often for months after leaving a job. These are increasing income inequality and helping hold down Americans’ wages, EPI analysts say.
- Previously a rare clause, the number of companies using noncompete agreements has swelled, as they are now being used in the contracts of “janitors, receptionists, customer service workers, fledgling journalists, even employees of a day care center.”
Axios
December 11, 2019
One in nine full-time workers in the US are currently paid wages that could still leave them in poverty, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank. And the prospect of more poor-paying jobs in the 2020s could widen the already-pointed debate over inequality in the US as Democratic presidential candidates propose varying methods to rein it in.
HR Dive
December 11, 2019
Fili-Krushel’s assessment agress with other recent research. Wages for black workers, for example, remain the lowest among all racial/ethnic groups. A report from the Economic Policy Institute showed that since 2000, wage growth was faster for white and Hispanic workers than black workers. In fact, the wage gap between black and white workers was larger in 2018 than in 2000. And black women earn just 61 cents on every dollar earned by their white, non-Hispanic male counterparts, the National Women’s Law Center found.
HR Dive
December 11, 2019
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