A report recently released by the Economic Policy Institute, though, suggests that the CHOOSE Act could have far greater costs for Alabama’s public schools than the sticker price alone would suggest.
The report’s author, economist Hilary Wething, said that “vouchers undermine efforts to make excellent public education available to all children by pressuring fiscal resources available to public schools.”
Alabama Political Reporter
January 6, 2025
..Latina workers were unemployed in April 2020, according to the Economic Policy Institute. “They turned to entrepreneurship as a…
Sacramento Bee
December 16, 2024
“The states that have the option to put these issues on the ballot have seen them met with success repeatedly,” said Jennifer Sherer, an acting deputy director at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. “So we’re at this point where, either through ballot initiative or legislation, there are 30 states that have already raised their minimum wage beyond the federal level.”
Politico Morning Shift
December 16, 2024
The left-leaning Economic Policy Institute notes that in 1975, more than 60% of full-time salaried workers were eligible to earn overtime pay. But over the decades, as earnings increased and the regulation failed to keep pace, the share of covered workers fell sharply — to 7% by 2016.
NPR
December 16, 2024
Those delays can weaken union efforts, said Margaret Poydock, a senior researcher at the Economic Policy Institute. “With turnover, it diminishes worker solidarity over time,” said Poydock. Federal labor law allows unionized workers without a contract to vote to decertify an election after one year.
Capital & Main
December 16, 2024
…growth for prime-age workers has been from immigration,” said Daniel Costa, director of immigration law and policy research with the…[paywall].
Globe and Mail
December 16, 2024
Across the nation there were approximately 199,000 public school bus drivers, which is a 12% decrease from September 2019 according to a November 2024 study by the Economic Policy Institute.
“Asking fewer bus drivers to pick up more students means longer routes, earlier morning pick-ups, and later drop-offs,” EPI wrote. “These burdensome logistics can increase the likelihood of a student missing school time and diminish their chances of participating in other activities — not to mention the additional burden they can place on parents trying to coordinate work schedules.”
Sedona Red Rock News
December 16, 2024
Trump’s first term was a series of constant attacks on workers’ rights — in 2020 the Economic Policy Institute chronicled the first Trump administration’s 50 most egregious attacks on working people. Now, it seems as if the NLRB seesaw will usher in more attempts to dismantle worker rights such as the right to organize, to protect workplace health and safety rules, and to assure overtime pay.
Clean Technica
December 16, 2024
New information this week helped to show how much workers have gained under Biden: The Economic Policy Institute reported yesterday that “Wage inequality fell for the second year in a row in 2023” in America.
“Average real earnings mostly held steady in 2023 (–0.1%) as inflation receded, but there were significant differences across the earnings distribution,” EPI writes. “The bottom 90% experienced the only growth of any group in 2023 (+0.9%), while the top 5% and the top 1% experienced losses of 2.0% and 3.3%, respectively. Even the top 0.1% experienced real wage losses in 2023 (–4.7%).”
Civic Ventures
December 16, 2024