Buttigieg also endorses raising the federal minimum wage to $15 by 2025. The Economic Policy Institute predicts the proposal will give over 8 million Hispanic workers a raise.
Miami Herald
August 1, 2019
- Increase wages for up to 33 million American workers, including 47.2% of workers in MS-02 according to independent economic analysis from the Economic Policy Institute. Even the CBO’s more cautious estimate of a similar proposal indicated as many as 27 million workers would see a wage increase;
Y’all Politics
August 1, 2019
Increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025 will raise the wages for 22.2% of the U.S. workforce, according to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), the progressive think tank.
MarketWatch
August 1, 2019
s evidence that this would be better for workers, the Economic Policy Institute cites research showing that in the states where tipped workers are paid $2.13 an hour and tips are used to bring that up to the ordinary minimum wage, 18.5 percent of waiters, waitresses, and bartenders live in poverty. That number goes down to 11.1 percent when tipped workers are paid an ordinary minimum wage. (The fact that people making minimum wage are living in poverty at all is a separate conversation.)
Jacobin
August 1, 2019
Currently, over 55% of workers — about 60 million in private, nonunionized jobs — have signed contracts with forced-arbitration provisions, according to a 2017 study by the Economic Policy Institute. It is estimated that by the year 2024, more than four in every five workers will have been forced to sign an arbitration agreement as part of the hiring process. It’s no surprise that corporations are increasingly turning to forced arbitration: Employees are less likely to win in arbitration than in either state or federal court, and even when they do win, they recover only a fraction of the money they would recover in court, according to research cited by the Economic Policy Institute.
Teen Vogue
August 1, 2019
It’s been estimated by the Economic Policy Institute that by 2024, about 80 percent of all American workers will be required to sign one as a condition of employment. Arbitration agreements often eliminate your jury trial rights for all kinds of employment-related claims, including violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Family Medical Leave Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Glassdoor
August 1, 2019
Researchers at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) recently found that when you factor in second jobs within the school system, the percentage of moonlighting educators increases substantially to 59 percent.
NEA Today
August 1, 2019
When there’s wage growth among people who make less than $132,900, the current payroll tax cap, the Social Security Administration brings in a lot more money, said Monique Morrissey, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute. The program relies heavily on payroll taxes and any excess revenue not going toward current retirees’ benefits would go toward the trust funds that support Social Security instead.
MarketWatch
August 1, 2019