According to a study conducted by the Economic Policy Institute, the average Uber driver makes $9.21 per hour after expenses. For most jobs in Los Angeles, the workers make a minimum wage of $14.25 per hour.
Daily Bruin
November 13, 2019
In fact, some people — including those from the Economic Policy Institute — have posited that a minimum wage increase will actually lead to an increase in employment because of the effects of giving low-wage workers a raise. Other advantages to restaurants may include lower turnover rates and better job performance.
UPI
November 13, 2019
The Economic Policy Institute, Hallet notes, argues that the wage increase will actually create more employment. According to the NELP, restaurant sales increased an average of 6.6 percent every year from 2014 to 2018. The next front in this conversation, Hallet notes, is the tip credit, through which restaurants can only pay their staff $10 if they make $5 or more an hour in tips. Officials are currently considering whether to abolish the credit, and there are all kinds of problems with tipping including that it allows for racism, sexism, and classism to factor into compensation of workers.
New York Magazine
November 13, 2019
Of course, we have long associated teaching with low salaries, which itself says a lot about what we think of teachers, the majority of whom are women. The average gap in compensation between public-school teachers and workers with similar levels of education and experience is at a new high—11.1 percent, according to the Economic Policy Institute. In real-dollar terms, teacher pay has eroded significantly over recent decades, but especially in Republican-led states, where years of tax cuts for high-income individuals and corporations have starved funding for public education. The red-state teacher strikes of 2018 helped draw attention to long-standing disparities and basic unfairness, but across the country the combination of persistently low pay and long hours continues to make teaching ever less appealing as a career.
Commonweal Magazine
November 13, 2019
“The ‘Fight for $15’ movement totally reset people’s expectations for what the minimum wage should be,” said David Cooper, a senior analyst for the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank that advocates for higher wages.
Ed Week
November 13, 2019
In the modern workforce, most people who parent infants or young children and work outside the home must effectively split their wage with a caretaker. That might be a daycare center, a nanny, babysitter, or an in-home daycare provider. The average annual cost of such services in Wisconsin is more than $12,000, according to the Economic Policy Institute. That works out to nearly one-fifth of the state’s median household income, or more than half of the income of a family of three living at the federal poverty level.
VolumeOne
November 13, 2019
As to Trump speaking on Black unemployment, surely he will use the rally to lie again, claiming that he had everything to do with the decline in Black unemployment when Black unemployment was already significantly declining under President Barack Obama. Attendees probably shouldn’t expect Trump to talk about the quality of the jobs that Black people are working either, and how despite being employed, Black people are still far more likely to be paid poverty level wages, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
News One
November 13, 2019
In August 2019, the Economic Policy Institute reported that, in 2018, the average pay of CEOs at America’s 350 top firms hit $17.2 million, an increase, when adjusted for inflation, of 1,007.5 percent since 1978. By contrast, the typical worker’s wage, adjusted for inflation, grew by only 11.9 percent over this 40-year period. In 1965, the ratio of CEO-to-worker’s pay stood at 20-to-1; by 2018 (when CEOs received another hefty pay raise and workers received a 0.2 percent pay cut), it had reached 278-to-1.
Eagle Times
November 13, 2019
Executive compensation standards are off the charts for some U.S. execs, with CEOs at America’s largest firms making 312 times the annual average pay of the typical worker, according to a 2017 study by the Economic Policy Institute. And the big paychecks are far from the only perk.
GoBankingRates
November 13, 2019