Companies like arbitration because it can be faster and cheaper than going through a long, drawn out court proceedings. That can benefit consumers as well. Typically, consumers wait 150 days for a decision in an arbitration case, as opposed to waiting an average of 215 days for a class action lawsuit to wrap up, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
CNBC
July 12, 2019
The Washington, DC metro area is one of the most expensive for child care in the country, costing upward of $23,000 a year for a single child, according to nonprofit Child Care Aware of America. In fact, according to the Economic Policy Institute, the District is ranked first, ahead of all 50 states, for the most expensive infant care in the nation, exceeding the annual cost of tuition to a four-year public university.
Northern Virginia Mag
July 12, 2019
Harris’s answer to tackling modern-day segregation is a $315 billion proposal that would elevate teacher pay. According to the Economic Policy Institute, teachers made 11.1 percent less than comparably educated workers in other professions in 2017.
The Atlantic
July 12, 2019
Guest: Richard Rothstein, Distinguished Fellow at the Economic Policy Institute, Author of “The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America”
A school desegregation policy that’s been over for decades is suddenly showing up in the national media because of this moment at the Democratic presidential debate two weeks ago. Courts stopped requiring districts bus black students into segregated white schools almost 20 years go. But the debate over school “busing” is more relevant today than you might expect.
Top of Mind
July 12, 2019
As Chair of the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittee, DeLauro held one of her first subcommittee hearings on wage theft—bringing in experts to discuss the issue. The House-passed Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations bill increased funding the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division WHD by $69 million, which will help add 500 new inspectors for a total of approximately 1,300. WHD’s mission is to look out for working people and make sure they are receiving their wages, yet it has been shortchanged over the last few decades. As a result, the number of cases investigated by WHD decreased by 63% between 1980 and 2015. The Economic Policy Institute estimates up to $50 billion as the total cost of wage theft each year; WHD was only able to recover $308 million in 2018.
U.S. Representative Rosa DeLauro
July 12, 2019
Wage theft affects millions of people, particularly women, people of color, and immigrants. Low-wage workers are acutely vulnerable to wage theft, and when wages are low to begin with, any amount the employer withholds can have dire consequences for the worker. The average low-wage worker loses $3,300 a year to wage theft, according to a survey by the Economic Policy Institute.
Teen Vogue
July 12, 2019
The president is oblivious, but otherwise almost nobody likes the job Acosta’s been doing. People who care about workers are naturally outraged that he’s been trying to water down everything from mine safety regulations to the rules that prohibit restaurant managers from grabbing a piece of the waiters’ tips.
The New York Times
July 12, 2019
Last week, more than 30 groups including the Economic Policy Institute and US PIRG also asked asked Congress and regulators to impose a moratorium on Libra until “profound questions” are answered
CNET
July 9, 2019
On June 25, 2019, the Institute for Policy Studies co-produced a conference with our allies at the Economic Policy Institute that was truly ground-breaking, thanks in part to its title: “Taxing the (Very) Rich: Finding A Cure for Excessive Wealth Disorder.” Over 21 organizations joined us in co-hosting the sold-out conference at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC. Note this conference was aligned and inspired by the April 2019 conference “Taxing the Rich,” hosted by the Patriotic Millionaires. You can watch their entire April gathering here.
Resilience
July 9, 2019
The post below looks at past busing experiments and the long-term effects, written by a renowned researcher on segregation in the United States. He is Richard Rothstein, a distinguished fellow of the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute and a senior fellow emeritus at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and of the Haas Institute at the University of California at Berkeley.
The Washington Post
July 9, 2019