Heidi Shierholz, president of the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank in Washington, put it this way: “We are the richest country in the world, but we chronically fail to offer broad-based economic prosperity and security.”
New York Times
April 14, 2025
Nationwide, there are 12% fewer school bus drivers available than before the pandemic, according to an Economic Policy Institute study. Kelly’s office said the number of school bus drivers in Arizona has dropped by more than half since the COVID-19 pandemic.
Arizona Republic
April 14, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute, the value of the federal minimum wage is the lowest it has been since 1956, and has declined in value by more than 32% since 2009.
Rutland Herald
April 14, 2025
Moreover, the best anti-poverty program is a union. Research is also clear that unions improve workers’ lives outside of work. The Economic Policy Institute found that “high unionization levels are associated with positive outcomes across multiple indicators of economic, personal, and democratic well-being.”
Cleveland Scene
April 14, 2025
Backed by 85 civil society groups and the vast majority of Democrats in Congress, the legislation would gradually increase the federal minimum wage to $17 by 2030. This would provide a pay raise for more than 22 million workers, or 15 percent of the U.S. workforce, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Truthout
April 14, 2025
Gillibrand’s office said, that according to analysis by the Economic Policy Institute, passing the bill would provide raises to 213,000 people in New York State.
CNY Central
April 14, 2025
One witness supported eliminating tip wage credits over concerns about wage theft. A 2017 study from the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, examining wage theft in 10 states found 17% of tip workers experienced some form of wage theft.
New Jersey Monitor
April 14, 2025
CONSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGES TO THE LABOR BOARD have surfaced in recent years as “anti-union companies” sense a conservative Supreme Court might reconsider precedent, said Celine McNicholas, general counsel and director of policy and government affairs at the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank. The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the board in 1937, shortly after the National Labor Relations Act created the NLRB. It has been treated as settled law since.
McNicholas said she is not aware of any other colleges or universities that have argued that the NLRB is unconstitutional.
“Private universities are just like every other sort of large, private employer that wants to resist its workers’ right to organize,” she said.
The American Prospect
April 14, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute, a single adult in Pima County now needs about $42,000 a year, or nearly $20 an hour, to cover basic living expenses.
KGUN (Arizona)
April 14, 2025