The Economic Policy Institute says more than 67% of all employers in California require that workers sign these arbitration agreements. Companies like these agreements because arbitration costs less than going to court and moves faster. Labor groups argue arbitration puts employees at a disadvantage because they don’t have an attorney and are subject to the ruling of an arbitrator who is often selected and paid for by the company.
U.S. News
September 16, 2019
The NBC corporate masters tell or signal to Todd who he can invite for his roundtable. He should never have corporatists from the American Enterprise Institute without having people from the Economic Policy Institute, Public Citizen, or Common Cause.
Common Dreams
September 16, 2019
The disparity in pay is even higher when broken down into hourly wages, according to recent data from the Economic Policy Institute.
Walden University
September 16, 2019
In 1968, a full-time worker earning minimum wage could support a family of three, according to an analysis by David Cooper of the Economic Policy Institute. Today, such a job is not enough to keep a family of two out of poverty, nor to afford rent on a two-bedroom apartment in any state, county or metropolitan area. Overall, corporations are foisting the burden of supporting workers — regardless of their country of origin — onto taxpayers, and government is acquiescing in that arrangement.
The Washington Post
September 16, 2019
To wit, the Pullman Company’s wages forced turn-of-the-century Black porters to rely on tips to make a living. Tipped workers only got a national minimum wage in 1966, after the first federal minimum wage was passed in 1938, and a 2014 study by the liberal Economic Policy Institute think tank found that women and people of color working in restaurants have the highest poverty rates in the industry.
Hyde Park Herald
September 16, 2019
Ben Zipperer is an economist at the Economic Policy Institute. His areas of expertise include the minimum wage, inequality, and low-wage labor markets. He has published research in the Industrial and Labor Relations Review and has been quoted in outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, and the BBC.
Pitchfork Economics
September 16, 2019
Revenue at Walmart is the largest in the retail world. The Walton family is collectively worth more than $150 billion. How did they get so rich? Largely by selling foreign goods to domestic consumers. According to the Economic Policy Institute, America actually lost 400,000 jobs thanks to Walmart’s reliance on Chinese imports. And it shows. Drive down the boarded up main streets of many small towns and you’ll see what rural America looks like today because of Walmart. Compare that to some of the gleaming new cities the communist Chinese government has built with the profits.
Townhall
September 16, 2019
We were just handed a wake-up call. Newly released numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics project that six of the ten occupations expected to have the most total job growth over the next decade pay less than $27,000 a year. Three of those six are low-paying jobs in the restaurant industry. Even more striking is the concentration of low-paid healthcare jobs at the top of the list, with personal care aides at number one and home health aides at number four. These jobs are disproportionately held by women and by people of color.
In These Times
September 16, 2019
Heidi Shierholz is senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute.
HEIDI SHIERHOLZ: I spend my life, my career worrying about, like, how is the economy doing for low- and middle-income people? And I am not worried about this.
NPR
September 16, 2019