Alaskans also voted on raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour, up from $11.73, and the measure is on track to pass. It would increase earnings for nearly 10 percent of the workforce, according to the Economic Policy Institute. In California, voters were asked to raise the state’s minimum wage to $18 per hour, but the results are still too close to call.
VOX
November 12, 2024
The worker-centered Economic Policy Institute said in 2023 that preemption can interfere with local governments’ ability to set job quality standards.
“Blocking these local policies results in wage suppression for all workers and contributes to maintaining racial and gender pay gaps,” the group said during committee testimony.
Bridge Michigan
November 12, 2024
We also looked at another data set maintained by the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal think tank. The group looks at inflation-adjusted wages through the lens of incomes, such as the lowest 10% of earners, the second-lowest 10%, the top 10% and the top 5%.
The Economic Policy Institute data shows that every slice of the income spectrum earned wages in 2023 above their 1973 level.
Politifact
November 12, 2024
Minimum wage increases also passed in Alaska and Missouri.
The Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank, noted in an election recap: “Voters given the opportunity to weigh in directly on questions of economic justice showed policy preferences far more progressive than those reflected in many national and state election outcomes.”
CNBC
November 12, 2024
…unequal place in the US in terms of income, according to the Economic Policy Institute. It’s essentially a luxury mountain town where…[paywall].
Business Insider
November 4, 2024
The management class and their armies of lobbyists on Capitol Hill have an insatiable drive to impoverish not only their own low-level employees but all low-level employees in their sectors. The solution is to support NGOs like American Compass and the Economic Policy Institute—organizations that tackle issues of pay, benefits, and affordability from a no-nonsense, nonideological perspective.
Tablet Mag
November 4, 2024
Under Trump, the NLRB acted on all 10 items in a 2017 corporate wishlist from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, according to a report by the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington-based think tank. Many of the decisions heralded by the Teamsters last October, in fact, represented reversals of Trump-era rules.
Capital & Main
November 4, 2024
The Economic Policy Institute found that, as of March, 65% of young college graduates — defined as workers between 21 to 24 years old — are employed.
Yahoo News
November 4, 2024
The Economic Policy Institute found that a typical family in Wisconsin would have to spend a third of its income on child care for an infant and a 4-year-old. Based on 2016 data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the Department of Health and Human Services deemed child care affordable if it costs up to 7% of a family’s income.
Wisconsin Watch
November 4, 2024
An Economic Policy Institute report from 2022 argued wages for non-college educated workers tend to be substantially lower in service industry jobs and the impact has been particularly pronounced for workers of color.
People's Defender
November 4, 2024