“The state department has no mandate or expertise on labor standards,” said Daniel Costa at the Economic Policy Institute. They outsource this to sponsor organizations for whom this is a business and who “have an incentive not to report”.
The Guardian
August 5, 2019
As a paper by the Economic Policy Institute’s Ross Eisenbrey explains, individual workers forced into arbitration are less likely to prevail before an arbitrator than they are before a real judge. And when they do prevail, they typically receive far less money.
Mandatory arbitration graphic.
ThinkProgress
August 5, 2019
Black college graduates ages 21 to 24 earn $3.34 less per hour than their white peers, reported Jillian Berman for MarketWatch, citing an analysis by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. That contributes to a $7,000 annual difference.
Business Insider
August 5, 2019
Airbnb has become a lucrative business for homeowners looking to pad their wallet with extra money by entering the sharing economy, according to a study by the Economic Policy Institute.
Houston Chronicle
August 5, 2019
A second letter to the Department of Justice opposing the merger on a legal and economic basis was made public on Monday. It was drafted by the Open Markets Institute and signed by U.S. PIRG, the Economic Policy Institute and several other consumer advocacy groups, as well as a handful of professors.
Lindsay McKenzie
August 5, 2019
“We’re just kind of taking away the pain of some people, spreading it around to more,” said Daniel Costa, director of immigration law and policy research at Economic Policy Institute, a think tank that focuses on improving incomes for low-wage workers. According to him, a seven-year to eight-year wait for all nationals after the current backlog being cleared is likely under the Lee and Lofgren bills.
The Motley Fool
August 5, 2019
“We’re just kind of taking away the pain of some people, spreading it around to more,” said Daniel Costa, director of immigration law and policy research at Economic Policy Institute, a think tank that focuses on improving incomes for low-wage workers. According to him, a seven-year to eight-year wait for all nationals after the current backlog being cleared is likely under the Lee and Lofgren bills.
Sojourners
August 5, 2019
“The way the system is set up is pretty crazy,” said Daniel Costa, director of immigration law and policy research at the Economic Policy Institute. “There’s a huge conflict of interest” because the State Department essentially leaves program oversight and worker protections to the private sponsors who bring the workers to the U.S., he said.
The agency “told us for years that they were really looking into the program” and making improvements, “but we never saw anything concrete come out,” Costa said.
Bloomberg Law
August 5, 2019
The public relations machine supporting the poorly named FAIR Act is now in full gear. Terri Gerstein of Harvard University and Heidi Shierholz of the Economic Policy Institute attacked NDP’s study, but missed their target. Their main beef was that the study looked at arbitrations regardless of whether the agreement to arbitrate came before or after the issue arose and did not look at class actions. When the arbitration agreement occurred has nothing to do with the whether the result was fair. Their other concerns are similarly off-point.
Washington Examiner
August 5, 2019
And although teachers in some states have ample cause to be unhappy about their paychecks, teachers are not – by and large – underpaid. Democratic presidential candidates such as Kamala Harris have touted a report from the Economic Policy Institute claiming that teachers are “underpaid” by 21 percent. But Andrew Biggs and Jason Richwine have noted that by the same methodology, which considers educational attainment but ignores supply and demand, aerospace engineers are “overpaid” by 38 percent and telemarketers are “underpaid” by 25 percent.
National Review Institute
August 5, 2019