Liberal groups argue the nomination of Scalia creates a fox-guarding-the-henhouse scenario. “The Department of Labor rule that would have simply required retirement advisers to work in the best interest of their clients — outlawing common practices such as financial advisers steering retirement savers toward investments that provide a good commission, but a lower rate of return,” said Heidi Shierholz, labor policy analyst for the Economic Policy Institute and a former chief economist for the Labor Department during the Obama administration.
Washington Examiner
July 30, 2019
The National Employment Law Project noted that Scalia “has spent his entire career fighting for big businesses and against working people,” while the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute called Mr. Trump’s choice “another fox-guarding-the-hen house selection that defines the Trump cabinet.” And prominent Senate Democrats have stated their opposition to Scalia’s nomination.
CBS News
July 30, 2019
Despite wage increases, teacher salaries nationally have actually declined 4% since 2009, when adjusted for inflation and increased living costs. And in every state, teachers make less than private-sector employees with similar education levels, according to a study from the Economic Policy Institute.
West Fargo Pioneer
July 30, 2019
Teachers have never been particularly well paid, but in recent decades their financial situation has gotten remarkably worse, mostly for two major reasons. The first is that pay has not grown, concludes a recent analysis by the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, which finds that relative teacher wages “have been eroding for over half a century.”
The Atlantic
July 30, 2019
Heidi Shierholz is quoted.
WOAI-AM
July 30, 2019
Recent analysis from the Economic Policy Institute found that raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour would benefit nearly 27,700 workers in Northwest Oregon. The Raise the Wage Act would raise wages for up to 33 million workers across the country. Today an individual working 40 hours per week and earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour earns only $15,080 annually, putting a family of two below the federal poverty level. Gradually raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour would lift millions of families out of poverty, address persistent wage gaps, help reduce poverty rates, and support working families.
The Chief
July 30, 2019
New Yorkers saw their minimum hourly wage salaries go up at the end of 2018. According to the Economic Policy Institute, about 464,000 minimum wage workers saw their paychecks increase, though how much depended on where one lives in the state.
Patch
July 30, 2019
Others, like the Economic Policy Institute, argue that America needs a $15 minimum wage, because workers deserve it. It would raise the pay for millions of workers who need the wage increase.
Newsmax
July 30, 2019
“The real (inflation-adjusted) minimum wage is now roughly 30 percent lower than it was in 1968, and it has been more than 10 years since Congress raised the minimum wage,” according to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a leftwing think tank. The EPI argues inflation and growing costs of living (healthcare, housing, education) have made the current minimum wage of $7.25 insufficient to support a decent standard of living.
Citizen Truth
July 30, 2019