“We will never get robust wage growth that includes the middle class unless we rebuild the collective bargaining system,” EPI’s Lawrence Mishel said in a Virginian-Pilot article on a new House Education and Workforce Committee study explaining how unions raise wages.
The Virginian-Pilot
October 9, 2015
In a column on how Donald Trump and Carly Fiorina are faring well in Republican polls despite having no governing experience, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof quoted EPI’s CEO pay study. Kristof argues that “the United States has overdone the cult of the C.E.O., partly explaining why at the largest companies the ratio of C.E.O. compensation to typical worker pay rose from 20 to one in 1965 to 303 to one in 2014, according to the Economic Policy Institute.”
The New York Times
October 9, 2015
The Washington Post also covered the child care report, writing, “Child care costs would now devour at least 30 percent of a minimum-wage worker’s earnings in every state, a new report from the Economic Policy Institute has found.”
The Washington Post
October 9, 2015
The New York Times covered EPI’s report on the cost of child care, noting, “Its data led to some stark comparisons. Minimum wage workers in most states would have to work full time from January through July to cover the cost of child care.”
The New York Times
October 9, 2015
The Washington Post‘s Matt Callahan used EPI’s Family Budget Calculator to produce a chart showing how much a family has to earn in the 10 largest U.S. metro areas, by population. The graphic also highlights the highest and lowest costs in these 10 metro areas.
The Washington Post
October 5, 2015
The Guardian‘s Jana Kasperkevic cited EPI research in a story about how opponents of raising the minimum benefit from pitting workers against each other. “About 28% of the workers who would benefit from a higher minimum wage have children, according to Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning thinktank. About 55% of them work full-time and 44% have some college experience. The average age of affected workers is 35, with 35.5% of them being at least 40 years old,” Kasperkevic wrote.
The Guardian
October 5, 2015
In the International Business Times’ coverage of the September jobs report, EPI’s Elise Gould notes that the report is evidence that the Federal Reserve was right not to raise rates in September.
International Business Times
October 5, 2015
EPI’s Elise Gould discussed the September jobs report and public sector employment in the New York Times.
New York Times
October 5, 2015
EPI’s Lawrence Mishel discussed wages in the sharing economy with the Washington Post.
The Washington Post
October 3, 2015
In an article in the New York Times on older workers in the so-called sharing economy, EPI’s Ross Eisenbrey notes, “There’s unfairness in the competitive business model.”
New York Times
October 3, 2015