- From the Economic Policy Institute: “From 2017 to 2018, relatively fast growth continued at the top…but the 20th and 30th percentiles saw the strongest growth at 4.8 percent and 3.7 percent, respectively.”
Breitbart
October 16, 2019
Workers’ share of corporate income has plummeted dismally in the past 25 years, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank dedicated to economic policy discussions. The Great Recession, from 2007 through 2012, put significant downward pressure on pay.
The Goshen News
October 16, 2019
Uber has rapidly expanded into 700 cities across the world in large part by relying on a business model that preys on drivers, who do not receive basic labor protections and benefits like overtime pay, worker’s compensation, and health insurance. According to a 2018 study by the Economic Policy Institute, Uber drivers earn $9.21 an hour after accounting for the costs of gas, car maintenance and other expenses. That’s below the minimum wage in 13 of its 20 biggest urban markets in the United States.
VICE
October 16, 2019
According to a study from the Economic Policy Institute last year, drivers take home an average of $9.21 an hour after expenses.
LAist
October 16, 2019
In the current political environment, it can be hard to separate the wheat from the chaff when it comes to trade deficits, job losses and China. To help cut through all the noise, the Economic Policy Institute conducted an extensive study of U.S.-China trade data to determine the net amount of job losses across America. Data from the U.S. International Trade Commission DataWeb was conformed to Bureau of Labor Statistics industry classifications to determine the results, which were further parsed by state and by Congressional district.
GO Banking Rates
October 16, 2019
Robert E. Scott of the pro-labor Economic Policy Institute found that about 851,700 U.S. jobs were displaced by the U.S. trade deficit with Mexico between 1993 (shortly before NAFTA was implemented) and 2014. That’s a data point that was cited by Sanders during his 2016 campaign, when he frequently decried job losses due to NAFTA. (Other studies, however, have found the job losses to be far less.)
The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service wrote in 2018, citing a 2014 study by the Economic Policy Institute, that “growth in the U.S. goods trade deficit with China between 2001 and 2013 eliminated or displaced 3.2 million U.S. jobs (three-fourths of which were in manufacturing).”
NBC News
October 16, 2019
According to the Economic Policy Institute, Americans between the ages of 56 and 61 have an average of only $17,000 in retirement savings. This number is supported by the Life Insurance and Market Research Association (LIMRA) which estimates the average American household has just $17,500 in savings.
Marketbeat
October 16, 2019
Between 2013 and 2015, nearly three million Michigan workers were shortchanged an estimated $429 million in wages and overtime pay because of payroll fraud, according to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute, a non-partisan think tank based in Washington, D.C., which conducts research and analysis on the economic status of low- and middle-income workers.
Battle Creek Enquirer
October 16, 2019
EPI SAYS TRUMP NLRB ‘FAVORS EMPLOYERS:’ A new report out today from the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute analyzes the policy moves and rulemakings from the National Labor Relations Board under the Trump administration. “In the two years that Republicans have held the majority on the board, they have overturned NLRB precedent in more than a dozen cases,” the report says.
Politico
October 16, 2019
“I have dedicated my career to worrying about the labor market. … I am not worried about this,” Heidi Shierholz, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute told Vox’s Joss Fong.
VOX
October 16, 2019