Similarly, an April 2015 joint statement from the National Employment Law Project and the Economic Policy Institute praised Fight for $15 before calling for a $12-an-hour minimum wage.
VOX
June 12, 2015
These practices tallied up to nearly $1 billion in 2012, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. The Walmart lawsuit is unusual because it frames generally well-compensated employees as victims of the trend. It also sheds light on the labor practices of the trucking industry.
International Business Times
June 12, 2015
Researchers at private consulting firm Industrial Economics and the University of Maryland, for instance, recently predicted that the plan would add more than a quarter of a million jobs to the U.S. economy by 2040. This week, the non-partisan Economic Policy Institute said the Clean Power Plan would create nearly 100,000 more jobs than are lost.
Think Progress
June 12, 2015
The paper, written by Leila Morsy and Richard Rothstein of the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, focuses on five factors that new research suggests hinder the achievement of poor children: parenting practices in low-income households, single parenthood, irregular work schedules of parents in low-wage jobs, poor access to health care and exposure to lead.
The Washington Post
June 11, 2015
Ross Eisenbrey, the vice president of the Economic Policy Institute, says when the rule was adjusted in 1975 more than 60% of salaried employees were eligible for overtime. According to his most recent calculation, he says, less than 10% of workers are currently eligible. The institute previously found only about 11% of workers were eligible in 2013. “Today, about 50% of children are raised in a family where both parents are working,” Eisenbrey says. “Having them work overtime is a particular strain on children and families with children. We need this rule more than ever.”
Time Magazine
June 11, 2015
Many millennials were unlucky to come of age when the Great Recession hit in 2008, and they’re still dealing with a tough job market despite the economy’s recovery. Many also are saddled with college debt. “Young college graduates’ job prospects have deteriorated dramatically since the start of the Great Recession,” the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank, said last month.
Los Angeles Times
June 11, 2015
In recent decades, rising inequality has funneled more money into the pockets of those at the top of the income ladder. But the 2014 numbers don’t match that trend. Low-wage workers saw the biggest gains last year, according to an analysis from the Economic Policy Institute. Wages at the low end grew roughly 3.5 percent, while higher-wage workers saw no gains at all.
The Boston Globe
June 11, 2015
Indeed, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, as of 2013, only 11 percent of full-time workers were guaranteed overtime. Bumping the threshold up to around $50,000, for example — roughly where it was in 1975, adjusted for inflation — would bring 47 percent of workers under the threshold, making around 6 million more workers eligible, by one estimate.
And as in the minimum-wage debate, advocates of higher overtime thresholds say lawmakers should simply index the level to inflation — not only would it save lawmakers from periodic fights over how much to change the law, but it would also help lower-paid hourly workers by making sure they’re all paid fairly by keeping wage policies consistent with where prices go. “The original notion was that the people who don’t control their own hours, who need the protection of the law, get paid overtime,” says Ross Eisenbrey, vice president at EPI. “Where the law set the threshold in 1975, that’s really supposed to demarcate the people about whom there’s no question — they are not the most powerful people.”
NPR
June 10, 2015
In a paper published last year, Heidi Shierholz, an economist formerly with the Economic Policy Institute, a labor-oriented think tank based in Washington, said that although the threshold rule was meant to protect workers who lack control over their time and tasks and do not receive high pay, the salary threshold has been updated only eight times in 75 years and only once since 1975.
The Chicago Tribune
June 10, 2015
An Economic Policy Institute report released Tuesday said the jobs both lost and gained would have “a substantial ripple effect” in other industries. The plan would lead to a net increase of 360,000 new jobs by 2020, the report said.
The report, written by Josh Bivens, the research and policy director at the Economic Policy Institute, also warned that consumers and employers could be caught off-guard by higher electricity rates under the plan, possibly threatening between 25,000 and 150,000 jobs.
The Hill
June 10, 2015