“Most families have just barely made up the ground lost over the past decade,” Elise Gould, a senior economist with the Economic Policy Institute, said in a statement.
“Most families have just barely made up the ground lost since 2000,” said Elise Gould, senior economist at EPI.
CBS News
September 13, 2019
The tip credit also leads to higher rates of sexual harassment one report found, since workers more reliant on tips are less likely to speak out when guests harass them. According to the Economic Policy Institute, nearly 70 percent of servers and bartenders in the U.S. and tipped workers are substantially more likely than non-tipped workers to rely on food assistance programs.
The Globe Post
September 13, 2019
A recent Economic Policy Institute study titled “CEO Compensation Has Grown 940 percent since 1978” is a Labor Day lament for American workers whose wages during the same period have only increased a meager 12%.
Daily Commercial
September 13, 2019
Out of 858,000 net new jobs for workers under age 35 that year, almost one in four (23%) was a union job, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Ithaca Journal
September 13, 2019
More Americans are employed in jobs that do not meet their financial needs or align with their skills. A study by the Economic Policy Institute indicates that more than 11 percent of Americans work part time but want full-time work or have looked for work in the last year but have given up actively seeking it.”
The Hill
September 13, 2019
What is clear, though, is that whites went to the suburbs because they could. Richard Rothstein, distinguished fellow of the Economic Policy Institute and author of a book about the federal government’s role in residential segregation titled “The Color of Law,” spoke last year at a forum in Newark about how Federal Housing Administration policy kept blacks out of the suburbs.
NJ Spotlight
September 13, 2019
After United Parcel Service (UPS) workers who were injured on the job sued their employer for its alleged failure to provide reasonable accommodations, the employees “successfully won certification of a national class of similarly situated workers to pursue their claims,” as per the Economic Policy Institute. Scalia got the class certification struck down on appeal. Scalia also fought to make UPS workers, rather than their employers, pay for protective equipment needed to stay safe on the job.
Citizen Truth
September 13, 2019
Josh Bivens, director of research at the Economic Policy Institute, said job creation is a positive byproduct of climate change policies, but he believes it shouldn’t be the focal point.
“I understand why politicians talk about it,” Mr. Bivens aid. Regardless, he added, “It’s obvious that climate change is a horrifying reality that is worth a lot of money to spend to ameliorate.”
The New York Times
September 13, 2019
Research from the Economic Policy Institute shows that in North Carolina, the difference in income is growing and the economy is not working well for everyone.
NC Policy Watch
September 13, 2019