The Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank that focuses on the needs of low- and middle-income workers, argued against a decision by the National Labor Relations Board’s general counsel that human cloud, ride-sharing drivers for Uber Technologies Inc. are independent contractors.
Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA)
October 1, 2019
NJPP Research Director Nicole Rodriguez contended that the salary threshold should be much higher, given that before 2004 the last time the federal threshold was set was in 1975. Experts at the Economic Policy Institute agreed.
NJ Biz
October 1, 2019
Many child care providers are teetering at the minimum wage edge, according to a recent study from the Economic Policy Institute and UC Berkeley’s Center for the Study of Child Care Employment.
KCRW
October 1, 2019
That was one of the data points in a new analysis from 24/7 Wall St., which examined the county in each state that is the most expensive to live in. The Economic Policy Institute’s Family Budget Calculator was used to determine the local cost of living, which includes housing, food, health care, transportation and other necessities.
The Center Square
September 30, 2019
That was one of the data points in a new analysis from 24/7 Wall St., which examined the county in each state that is the most expensive to live in. The Economic Policy Institute’s Family Budget Calculator was used to determine the local cost of living, which includes housing, food, health care, transportation and other necessities.
The Center Square
September 30, 2019
That was one of the data points in a new analysis from 24/7 Wall St., which examined the county in each state that is the most expensive to live in. The Economic Policy Institute’s Family Budget Calculator was used to determine the local cost of living, which includes housing, food, health care, transportation and other necessities.
The Center Square
September 30, 2019
That was one of the data points in a new analysis from 24/7 Wall St., which examined the county in each state that is the most expensive to live in. The Economic Policy Institute’s Family Budget Calculator was used to determine the local cost of living, which includes housing, food, health care, transportation and other necessities.
The Center Square
September 30, 2019
Numbers like those contained in this Economic Policy Institute paper, showing that CEO compensation has risen 940% since 1978 certainly sound shocking until you consider that stock prices, as represented by the S&P 500, have gained over 3,320% in that time. If there is a problem, it is more in the fact that average worker compensation in the same period has risen only 12%, but that is an argument about the very nature of capitalism and a free labor market, too big a subject to consider here.
Nasdaq
September 30, 2019
Both amount to the less-intelligent version of the picture painted by the Economic Policy Institute and similar groups, which contend that wage growth for the ordinary worker has stagnated since about 1973, with productivity well outpacing the expected returns to the labor force. Of course, if you measure productivity differently, you’ll get different results. But whatever their merits, these paradigmatic critiques of the economy — which, of course, have a long history — have filtered down from, inter alia, the blogosphere, Thom Hartmann’s radio show, and the progressive think-tank world to the mainstream of the Democratic conversation and the vernacular of all its presidential front-runners.
National Review
September 30, 2019
Price has been hailed as one of the most generous employers in recent memory. His move comes at a time when CEO pay has grown by a staggering 940% from 1978, while workers’ pay has risen by only 12% within the same period, the Economic Policy Institute reports.
Human Resources Director
September 30, 2019