Should the merger be approved, the majority of retail workers in the wireless service industry would see their weekly earnings drop by 1% to 3%, but could decline as much as 7%, according to a study released Monday. The effect would also reach retail employees at authorized dealers and its competitors Verizon and AT&T. The study was done by Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit and nonpartisan group that aims to include low- and middle-income workers in policy discussions, as a way to draw attention to how the merger would trickle down. (Whole story)
Fortune
January 4, 2019
The Economic Policy Institute, a think tank based in Washington, D.C., that is generally aligned with labor causes and considered to be left-leaning, has estimated that the increase will give approximately 677,000 workers in Missouri a raise. The group also says low-wage workers will earn an additional $870 million in wages between now and 2023.
The Joplin Globe
January 4, 2019
Today, a new report published by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute is projecting that most sales employees across the industry — that includes AT&T, Verizon and many smaller carriers — could be signed on for weekly pay of 1 to 3 percent less than current rates on average. Today, a new report published by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute is projecting that most sales employees across the industry — that includes AT&T, Verizon and many smaller carriers — could be signed on for weekly pay of 1 to 3 percent less than current rates on average. (Whole story)
Pocket Now
January 4, 2019
According to a recent national survey by the Economic Policy Institute, the average income of the top one percent in the Empire State is $2,202,489 while the average income for the bottom 99 percent is $49,617.
Salon
January 4, 2019
The earning Ridester has come up with in its report closely matches what the Economic Policy Institute(EPI) revealed in May of 2018.
Just as in the Ridester report, the EPI was looking to offer more clarity with, “A framework for understanding various pay and size concepts and a common terminology.”
Small Business Trends
January 4, 2019
Because the unemployment rates are so low in these cities, city officials said many of their Amazon employees were not previously unemployed, but instead came from other jobs. Despite the fact that Amazon creates new jobs in the areas it develops in, a February report from the Economic Policy Institute found that Amazon centers created little to no net job growth because the jobs created were offset by job losses in other industries.
Idaho Press
January 4, 2019
In a study Price co-authored for the non-partisan Economic Policy Institute, researchers found that Florida has the second largest income inequality gap in the country. In Hillsborough County, the top 1 percent of its residents earns 28.7 percent more than the bottom 99.
WUSF
January 4, 2019
NPR’s Audie Cornish speaks with David Cooper, senior economic analyst for the Economic Policy Institute, about minimum wage increases in 2019. (Whole story)
NPR
January 3, 2019
A minimum wage bump will see more than $12.4 million in additional pay for Rhode Island workers in 2019. That’s according to an analysis by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, which studied all the minimum wage boosts 20 states are seeing this year.
Patch
January 3, 2019
Meanwhile, there’s a fight brewing over the minimum wage at the national level as Democrats take control of the House of Representatives this week. Although the federal minimum wage remains at $7.25 an hour, 29 states and Washington, D.C., have adopted a higher rate, according to data from the Economic Policy Institute.
CNBC
January 3, 2019