As my colleague Michelle Chen noted on a recent episode of our podcast Belabored, “Nonprofit is a legal and financial designation, it’s not a stamp of ethical quality.” In that same episode, Kayla Blado, president of the NPEU and a staffer at the Economic Policy Institute, explains in an interview that nonprofit workers are often willing to work harder and longer in the service of the mission, and that their drive to organize is often coming from that same place of commitment to that mission. “They don’t want to jump ship,” she says, if the working conditions leave something to be desired, they want to stay and make the workplace better.
The Progressive
November 20, 2019
According to a 2017 report from the Economic Policy Institute, unionized working women, on average, are paid 94 cents to every dollar earned by unionized working men. Additionally, according to EPI, unionized working women are more likely to have access to paid leave, paid sick days and vacation time.
CNBC
November 20, 2019
If President Trump has failed to provide meaningful help for U.S. manufacturers, it’s partly because he’s overlooking a larger problem. What’s really hurting America’s manufacturers is that the U.S. dollar has become substantially overvalued. In fact, since 2014, the dollar has risen in value by more than 20 percent, including 8 percent since March 2018 alone — when the China tariffs were first imposed.
Morning Consult
November 20, 2019
The long-term trend of wages not keeping up with the prices of essentials hasn’t improved much, as it’s been reported that minimum-wage workers can’t afford a two-bedroom apartment anywhere in the US. (The Economic Policy Institute—7/19/18, 2/5/19—found that if the minimum wage tracked productivity growth since the 1960s, it would now be over $20 an hour.)
Common Dreams
November 20, 2019
The Economic Policy Institute also noted in their 2018 family budget analysis that there is “nowhere in the country” where a minimum-wage worker would earn enough to meet their family’s basic needs.
Capital Gazette
November 20, 2019
It’s no secret that childcare costs are getting out of hand in the United States, with soaring costs fueled largely by a lack of supply. In Washington, D.C., for example, parents are spending an average of $22,631 a year per child according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Distractify
November 20, 2019
According to the Economic Policy Institute, in a report from earlier this year, the median black worker made just 75% of what an equivalent white worker did, and that number is lower than when it was measured in 2000.
Houston Style Magazine
November 19, 2019
The latest Sanders economic justice initiative takes on the corporate pay practices that contribute so much to income inequality. In 1965, the Economic Policy Institute notes, top US CEOs took home 20 times the average worker’s pay in their industry.
The Nation
November 19, 2019
The NLRB reported another 11% drop in the filing of unfair labor practices in 2018. The General Counsel for the Machinists has reportedly commented that we shouldn’t worry, because a lot of this will go away if Trump wins a second term. Personally, I’m not feeling as secure about that as my brother machinist is. Meanwhile, the Economic Policy Institute has suggested that the NLRB and the General Counsel have been following the work order set by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce point by point.
People’s World
November 19, 2019