Although Trump entered office with promises of supporting workers, his administration has instead “sold out the American middle class” in a “bait-and-switch” that has benefited the nation’s wealthiest and left the rest of us behind, said Heidi Shierholz, a senior economist and policy director with the liberal Economic Policy Institute think tank.
Capital & Main
November 6, 2019
However, a 2018 report by the Economic Policy Institute found that “when Amazon opens a new fulfillment center, the host county gains roughly 30 percent more warehousing and storage jobs but no new net jobs overall, as the jobs created in warehousing and storage are likely offset by job losses in other industries.”
Cleveland Scene
November 6, 2019
EPI data cited in footnotes.
Blue Virginia
November 5, 2019
Economic mobility is on the decline, according to a Harvard team of researchers led by economist Raj Chetty. More than 90 percent of children who were born in 1940 grew up to earn more than their parents. Only 50 percent of children born 40 years later will go on to earn more than their parents. But the top one percent is doing better than fine: The average CEO pulled in 312 times as much as the average worker in 2017, up from 20 times as much in 1965, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Fast Company
November 5, 2019
The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) released a paper earlier this year arguing that the USMCA’s expected impact on labor is grossly exaggerated and that the USMCA in its current form is unlikely to help wages or employment rise in the U.S.
Inside Sources
November 5, 2019
Just about the only worker protection the Trump-named GOP National Labor Relations Board majority hasn’t successfully banned, yet, is Scabby the Rat. It’s not for lack of trying. NLRB General Counsel Peter Robb, its top enforcement officer, wants to trap and kill Scabby too, the Economic Policy Institute reports. A federal judge in New York state stopped him. But Scabby’s fate is just a symbol. In a comprehensive study of NLRB actions during the GOP Trump government, the pro-worker think tank reports that, as might be expected, the three-member NLRB GOP majority is dismantling worker protections wholesale, working from – among other sources – a U.S. Chamber of Commerce wish list.
People’s World
November 5, 2019
Labor advocates point to a study from the Economic Policy Institute that concluded that drivers nationwide take home an average of $9.21 an hour after expenses.
Capital & Main
November 5, 2019
Rothstein is a senior fellow at the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley. He’s also a distinguished fellow at the Economic Policy Institute and a senior fellow, emeritus, at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He lives in Berkeley.
Davis Enterprise
November 5, 2019
One in four families spends more than 10 percent of their income on child care, according to a 2016 report from Carsey School of Public Policy. Low-income families spend 19.8 percent, or nearly double that. For some segments of the population, including New York hospitality workers, the percentages are even higher. In the state of New York, the average cost of child care for an infant is $15,394, or $1,283 per month. Even with the recent minimum wage hike, the Economic Policy Institute estimates it would take 26 weeks for a single-income family earning $15 an hour to cover the cost of child care for that one infant. Add a four-year-old to the equation and you’re looking at $27,752. Put another way, that’s 98 percent of the income of an entry-level server, host, or cook in New York City.
Food & Wine
November 5, 2019
Barclay cited an Economic Policy Institute report from 2019 that said “at every educational level, women were paid less than their male counterparts. The average wage for men with a college degree is higher than the average wage for a woman with an advanced degree.”
Grand Rapids Business Journal
November 4, 2019