Although wages are increasing for most American employees, growth continues to be sluggish in an economy with relatively low unemployment, according to a new report by the non-partisan Economic Policy Institute.
Biz Woman
March 19, 2019
The As You Sow report documents how CEO pay has soared across industries in the past decade, with the average CEO salary growing by more than $2 million from 2013 to 2017, according to Institutional Shareholder Services, while the Economic Policy Institute has found a 17.6 percent increase in average CEO salary, among the 350 largest corporations in the United States, since 2016.
ATT
March 19, 2019
In 2014, Arizona families paid an average day care cost of $9,437 a year, according to an Economic Policy Institute report that says high-quality child care is financially out of reach for most families.
Cronkite News
March 19, 2019
Wage inequality is on the rise. This is according to a new report by EPI’s Elise Gould, which analyzes wage trends between 2000 and 2018.
Hearst CT News
March 19, 2019
It’s true that many people with jobs are still poor. In 2016, census data showed that 7.2 million people were working, but still lived below the poverty line. It’s also true that a lot of workers — nearly 40 percent, or 60 million — earn less than $15 an hour, according to government data compiled by the liberal Economic Policy Institute. But wages have also been rising in the past several years for lower-income workers, thanks in part to higher minimum wages. For those at the 20th percentile of earnings — meaning that 80 percent of workers earn more — their wages rose 4.8 percent last year, more than any other income group, according to that institute.
AP
March 19, 2019
Furthermore, the Seattle study was not free of flaws. As the Economic Policy Institute’s Ben Zipperer has explained, the study missed at least two important pieces: it did not account for the improving Seattle-area economy prior to the minimum wage increase; and it left out workers for companies, such as chain restaurants, with multiple locations (such workers accounted for nearly one-third of lower-wage workers in Washington state).
Providence Journal
March 19, 2019
Statistics from the Economic Policy Institute shows it is not teens looking for part-time work who would benefit. The people who would benefit are an average 35 years old, 91 percent are not teens, they are 20 or older; 34 percent are 40 or older; 58 percent are women; 28 percent have children; 60 percent work full time. And on average, they earn more than half of their family’s total income.
South Bend Tribune
March 19, 2019
Rothstein, a former New York Times columnist, is a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute and a Fellow at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and Haas Institute at the University of California–Berkeley. The Color of Law expands upon and provides a national perspective on his recent work that documents the history of state-sponsored residential segregation, as in his report, “The Making of Ferguson.”
Inland Empire
March 19, 2019
The use of forced arbitration has grown steadily over the last few decades, to the point where an estimated 55 percent of U.S. workers ― roughly 60 million ― are subject to such clauses, according to the Economic Policy Institute. The share of workers employed under forced arbitration has roughly doubled since the early 2000s, giving fewer workers access to the courts for civil rights, family leave, and wage and hour claims.
Huffington Post
March 19, 2019
According to an April 2018 Economic Policy Institute report by Alexander J.S. Colvin, use of mandatory arbitration agreements has increased steadily since 1991. Colvin said the number of workers under such agreements ballooned from 2 percent in 1992 to nearly “a quarter of the workforce” by the early 2000s.
Business News Daily
March 19, 2019