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• Graduate student unions get creative as U.S. reconsiders their right to organize

  A recent study conducted by the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, found a correlation between declining union membership and income inequality.

  Politico June 7, 2019
• Here’s one powerful way to control CEO pay

  Shareholders — everyone from a retail investor with a 401(K) to asset management firms with vast pools of money — need the incentives and power to question exorbitant corporate pay in the companies where they invest money, according to a new paper from the Economic Policy Institute,.

  MarketWatch June 6, 2019
• Trump’s North American trade deal must do more to protect US jobs, House Democrat says

  Before NAFTA, we did not have a significant trade deficit with Mexico. In the NAFTA world, we have run a stubborn $100 billion deficit year in, year out. According to the Economic Policy Institute, by 2013 NAFTA had displaced 852,000 U.S. jobs, mostly in the manufacturing sector.

  CNBC June 6, 2019
• Candidates have a plan, or a score of different ones, to change the tax code

  Income inequality has skyrocketed since the 1970s, with the top 1 percent of families earning 26.3 times more, on average, than the bottom 99 percent of families, according to a 2015 study by the Economic Policy Institute.

  Yahoo June 6, 2019
• How much does your family need in savings?

  The Economic Policy Institute estimates that nearly half of American families have nothing saved for retirement. While some families enjoy working and hope to keep their jobs for the rest of their lives, others have nothing saved because they haven’t thought about it or keep putting it off. You want money set aside for your golden years when you no longer want to commit to an 8-to-5 job.

  Credit.com June 6, 2019
• Miami-Dade is one of the most expensive areas in the nation for renters

  But the cost of living involves more than housing. Transportation, groceries, insurance and other factors are part of the equation. The Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank, found South Florida (including Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties) was the 23rd most expensive place to live, well behind Washington, D.C., Boston and Boulder, Colorado.

  Miami Herald June 6, 2019
• Apple’s top Mac Pro computer costs more than the average car

  To be in the top 1% of income earners you need to make an average of $718,000 per year, according to calculations from the Economic Policy Institute. Even after taxes, a $12,000 computer is likely within their budget. But for the typical American, who earns about $53,000 per year, not so much.

  CBS News June 6, 2019
• Immigrants navigate the painstaking process of getting back unpaid wages

  Employers owe American workers billions of dollars in unpaid wages each year, as much as $50 billion in 2016, according to estimates from the progressive Economic Policy Institute.

  Houston Public Media June 6, 2019
• The chamber speaks: Forced arbitration is actually good for workers!

  Finally, glaringly absent from the report is any discussion of highly regarded prior studies on this topic. Alex Colvin, the Martin F. Scheinman Professor of Conflict Resolution at Cornell University,is a national expert on empirical studies of arbitration, having authored a number of articles on the subject. A 2015 Economic Policy Institute report summarizes his and others’ research going back nearly two decades, including findings that while arbitration is indeed faster than litigation, workers win much more frequently in court than in arbitration, and when they win, they win a lot more money.

  June 6, 2019
• ‘It puts you into a process that hugely favors the employer’

  At the same time, a new report from the Economic Policy Institute and the Center for Popular Democracy describes the disturbing rise of a particular constraint on workers’ voices and their power.

  FAIR June 6, 2019