New Yorkers saw their minimum hourly wage salaries go up at the end of 2018. According to the Economic Policy Institute, about 464,000 minimum wage workers saw their paychecks increase, though how much depended on where one lives in the state.
Patch
July 30, 2019
Others, like the Economic Policy Institute, argue that America needs a $15 minimum wage, because workers deserve it. It would raise the pay for millions of workers who need the wage increase.
Newsmax
July 30, 2019
“The real (inflation-adjusted) minimum wage is now roughly 30 percent lower than it was in 1968, and it has been more than 10 years since Congress raised the minimum wage,” according to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a leftwing think tank. The EPI argues inflation and growing costs of living (healthcare, housing, education) have made the current minimum wage of $7.25 insufficient to support a decent standard of living.
Citizen Truth
July 30, 2019
The Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank, recently released a report noting that the United States is in the longest period in its history without a minimum wage hike since the earnings floor was created. The report notes that the spending power of a minimum wage worker is 17 percent less today than a decade ago, and 31 percent less than it was in 1968.
Northcoast Journal
July 30, 2019
Originally starting at 25 cents, the minimum wage has been raised nine times over the last 81 years, according to the national nonprofit Economic Policy Institute. While inflation, cost of living and other financial burdens have increased since the last increase in 2007, the existing minimum wage has created problems for many low-income Americans, the institute said.
Journal Record
July 30, 2019
The Raise the Wage Act, which applies to all federal employees, would affect an additional 33 million workers, according to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute. These raises represent the difference between extreme financial hardship and relative security for huge swaths of the population. Their transformative benefits would fall disproportionately to women and people of color, and lift millions out of poverty.
Jacobin
July 30, 2019
EPI Economist Ben Zipperer said the challenges for businesses are not as large as the “scare stories” about raising the minimum wage might have some people think. He said some of the job loss from increasing the wage can be explained by lower turnover.
“So when you raise minimum wage you actually reduce worker turnover, and makes it easier for businesses to retain workers because they’re now paying higher wages,” he said
WOUB
July 30, 2019
“This critical policy would lift wages for more than 33 million workers, 90% of them age 20 or older and 58% of them women,” according to Heidi Shierholz, a senior economist and the director of policy at the Economic Policy Institute.
MultiBriefs
July 30, 2019
Increase wages for up to 33 million American workers, including almost 48 percent of workers in the 15th District of Texas according to an independent economic analysis from the Economic Policy Institute. Even the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) more cautious estimate of a similar proposal indicated as many as 27 million workers would see a wage increase;
Public
July 30, 2019
According to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute, the act would benefit up to 33 million American workers and 125,000 workers in Alabama’s 7th Congressional District alone.
Alabama Political Reporter
July 30, 2019