While inflation-adjusted wages grew modestly for most workers last year, “large gaps by gender, race, wage, and education level remain,” according to new data released by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) — and some continue to get worse.
HR Dive
March 19, 2019
A 2017 analysis of data in the ten largest states in the US by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute found 17 percent of eligible workers experienced minimum violations, accounting for $8 billion in lost income annually—the report projected losses of $15 billion nationwide. In Pennsylvania and Texas, the worst offenders, according to the analysis, the average cheated worker lost an estimated 30 percent of owed wages. A US Labor Department study of 9,000 restaurants cited by ROC United, the advocacy group, found over 80 percent had committed wage and hour violations. Another survey of restaurant workers in New York City earlier this decade also found 80 percent experienced wage theft.
VICE
March 19, 2019
“Nearly half of Americans incur essentially zero costs in a given year, while an unlucky few have staggering costs,” Josh Bivens, director of research at the Economic Policy Institute, told Yahoo Finance.
Yahoo Finance
March 8, 2019
Along with that, male teachers have a much larger wage penalty, which is teacher pay compared with the pay of other career opportunities for potential and current teachers, than female teachers. In 2017, female public school teachers made 15.6 percent less than comparable female workers, but male teachers made 26.8 percent less than comparable male workers, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
OU Daily
February 13, 2019
The Economic Policy Institute, a labor-oriented think tank, compares the pay of CEOs to typical workers. The institute estimated that in the United States, the typical CEO makes 312 times more than the average worker. Based on our analysis, the ratio at McDonald’s is about 1,786 to one.
Politifact
February 13, 2019
Oxfam America’s report is based on an Economic Policy Institute Simulation Model using data from the Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Congressional Budget Office.
The Nevada Current
February 13, 2019
Now, consumer advocates worry that the same economic upheaval will be seen on a national scale if the T-Mobile and Sprint merger is approved. A December report from two left-leaning think tanks—the Economic Policy Institute and the Roosevelt Institute—found that the merger would suppress wages by up to $3,276 a year for all telecommunications workers in markets where T-Mobile and Sprint are most active. According to CWA estimates, the merger would kill up to 30,000 retail and headquarter jobs at T-Mobile and Sprint.
Mother Jones
February 13, 2019
Numerous empirical studies show that individual plaintiffs fare much worse before an arbitrator than they would before a real judge. A study by the Economic Policy Institute, for example, found that employees are far less likely to prevail before an arbitrator, and that they typically receive less money when they do prevail.
American Prospect
February 13, 2019
A 2017 Economic Policy Institute study found that workers lose an estimate $8 billion a year to their employers through wage theft, a crime that’s rarely prosecuted.
GQ Magazine
February 13, 2019
The wealthiest 1 percent of New Yorkers control about 31 percent of the state’s income, according to data from the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington-based think tank. They also account for half of the state’s income taxes, according to Mr. Cuomo.
The New York Times
February 13, 2019