Workers will earn an additional $1.5 billion extra per year under the new rules, according to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank. It’s also likely to reduce the amount of unpaid overtime that salaried workers undertake, economists at the EPI said in a blog post.
Investopedia
April 29, 2024
“There’s still millions of people out there who should have some kind of overtime pay protections who don’t, and this will hopefully go a long way toward making up some of that gap,” said Samantha Sanders, director of government affairs and advocacy at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. “But I’m sure [officials] are assuming there will be a fight over it.”
MarketWatch
April 29, 2024
And a lot of people maybe think of these as something at the C-suite or executive level.
However, a 2019 study by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute found that about 30 percent of the workers that were covered under these agreements actually made $13 or less per hour.
PBS Newshour
April 29, 2024
A recent study published by the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank, finds that the U.S. economy does better when a Democrat is in the White House than when a Republican is in charge (bit.ly/EPIstudy2024).
The study looked at gross domestic product growth, job growth, inflation-adjusted wage growth, the unemployment rate and more. It found that the Democrats have had an economic advantage since at least 1949.
The study also found that economic gains are “distributed substantially more equally” when a Democrat is in the White House.
Lancaster Online
April 29, 2024
But without the rule, tipped-wage earners—especially women and people of color—will lose out on an important safety net, The Economic Policy Institute, National Women’s Law Center and Restaurant Opportunities Center United, said in an amicus brief to the Fifth Circuit defending the policy.
Bloomberg Law
April 29, 2024
The labor department’s wage and hour division found violations in 88% of the H-2A investigations it opened in the last five years. But most farm employers are never inspected by the agency because it lacks funding and staffing, according to a recent study from the Economic Policy Institute.
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Costa expects legal challenges to the new rule, but he said the Department of Labor has the authority to make these “modest and reasonable” changes to the H-2A program’s standards.
“The law requires that the U.S. government protect labor standards in the H-2A program, so they have a lot of authority to set that program up,” said Costa, director of immigration law and policy research at Economic Policy Institute. “And I think it’s good to use that authority to have updated protections that reflect the reality for H-2A workers.”
KQED
April 29, 2024
Nonetheless, noncompetes are widespread in such occupations as hairdressing, hash slinging, and car parking—not to stop the spread of trade secrets, of course, but simply to limit competition and suppress wages. A 2019 study by the Economic Policy Institute found that roughly 30 percent of workplaces where the average yearly pay was less than $22,500 subjected all their employees to noncompetes.
American Prospect
April 29, 2024
Elise Gould, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, told Business Insider that a stagnant minimum wage and falling unionization rates have contributed to lower pay for some workers. The lower the pay, the less motivated some people might be to take a job.
Additionally, rising incarceration rates in recent decades could be making it difficult for some men to find work once they return to society, Gould said. Incarcerated men aren’t counted in government labor force statistics, but when they are released, their struggles to find work would weigh on the male employment rate.
Business Insider
April 29, 2024
Workers will earn an additional $1.5 billion extra per year under the new rules, according to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank. It’s also likely to reduce the amount of unpaid overtime that salaried workers undertake, economists at the EPI said in a blog post.
Investopedia
April 29, 2024
“There’s still millions of people out there who should have some kind of overtime pay protections who don’t, and this will hopefully go a long way toward making up some of that gap,” said Samantha Sanders, director of government affairs and advocacy at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. “But I’m sure [officials] are assuming there will be a fight over it.”
MarketWatch
April 29, 2024
And a lot of people maybe think of these as something at the C-suite or executive level.
However, a 2019 study by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute found that about 30 percent of the workers that were covered under these agreements actually made $13 or less per hour.
PBS Newshour
April 29, 2024
The new rule is expected to benefit around 4.3 million salaried employees, of which, according to the Economic Policy Institute, 2.4 million are women, while one million are people of color. The majority of workers are located in the professional, commercial and social services sector.
AS USA
April 26, 2024
Sure, historically, companies used these agreements to lock down highly skilled workers and executives with access to trade secrets or proprietary information. But that hasn’t been the case for decades. According to the Economic Policy Institute, a third of companies now require all their workers to sign non-competes. That includes “valued” employees such as hourly workers in minimum wage jobs doing janitorial duties or food service.
Computer World
April 26, 2024
Leelanau County is the most expensive county in the country for food costs, according to a recent national study that’s making the rounds on social media and internet forums.
The Economic Policy Institute, a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit think tank, produces a Family Budget Calculator each year. EPI says the calculator “measures the income a family needs in order to attain a modest yet adequate standard of living.” Costs tied to housing, food, childcare, heath care and more are drawn from diverse data sets and incorporated into the calculator.
Leelanau Ticker
April 26, 2024
In an analysis of the cost of basic necessities by the Economic Policy Institute, median annual expenses for a family with two adults and two children in the 100 largest U.S. metropolitan areas were $104,760. This means that in about half of those areas, the cost was higher than that. The nonprofit think tank’s 2024 family budget calculator does not include retirement, college or emergency savings, which are often critical factors for long-term financial security.
To compensate for the cost of necessities exceeding median income, ‘a lot of people are making compromises in one way or another.’Zane Mokhiber, director of data management and analysis at the Economic Policy Institute.
MarketWatch
April 26, 2024
About half of private-sector businesses in the U.S. require at least some employees to enter noncompete agreements, according to a 2019 study from the Economic Policy Institute.
Worklife News
April 26, 2024
40 years of regressive tweaks and tax breaks have hit these workers harder than the other over half of workers, and over 80% of low-income workers don’t have any retirement plan at work. (For more evidence on all of this, see the Older Workers and Retirement Chartbook by the Economic Policy Institute and the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis.)
Forbes
April 26, 2024
This is great news for American workers. When this policy is fully enacted next summer, EPI reports that worker paychecks will grow by $1.5 billion every year.
Civic Ventures
April 26, 2024
The Older Workers and Retirement Chartbook, produced by the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis and the Economic Policy Institute, suggests that more than half of retirees (52%) were pushed out of their jobs before they were ready to retire.
Project Syndicate
April 26, 2024
The Economic Policy Institute applauded the Federal Trade Commission’s decision on Tuesday to ban noncompete clauses in employment, saying in a statement on its website that “this is an important step toward fostering fair competition and empowering U.S. workers.”
Noncompete agreements are conditions of employment that prohibit a worker from leaving a job to take a role at a competing business or starting their own within a certain period of time. Research from the Institute has found that up to 25% of workers in the private sector—even low-wage employees—have been required to sign noncompete agreements.
CEO North America
April 26, 2024
Multiple studies show immigrants like Alaniz’s family were a key economic engine for the United States’ rebound from the pandemic. Some 50% of the labor market’s recent growth came from foreign-born workers between January 2023 and January 2024, according to an Economic Policy Institute analysis of federal data.
CalMatters
April 26, 2024
According to Heidi Shierholz, a labor economist and president of the Economic Policy Institute, the only leverage nonunion workers have is “…[T]heir ability to quit their job. Noncompetes don’t just stop you from taking a job — they stop you from starting your own business.”
Advisory Board
April 26, 2024
“Noncompetes are about reducing competition, full stop. It’s in their name,” Heidi Shierholz, president of the Economic Policy Institute, said Tuesday. “Noncompetes are bad for workers, bad for consumers, and bad for the broader economy. This rule is an important step in creating an economy that is not only strong but also works for working people.”
Common Dreams
April 26, 2024
These changes will have a profound impact on the number of employees subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (“FLSA”) minimum wage and overtime guarantees—the Economic Policy Institute estimated that 3.4 million employees will be affected by the EAP exemption threshold, with another 248,000 workers affected by the new HCE threshold.
JD Supra
April 26, 2024
The new rule is expected to benefit around 4.3 million salaried employees, of which, according to the Economic Policy Institute, 2.4 million are women, while one million are people of color. The majority of workers are located in the professional, commercial and social services sector.
AS USA
April 26, 2024
Sure, historically, companies used these agreements to lock down highly skilled workers and executives with access to trade secrets or proprietary information. But that hasn’t been the case for decades. According to the Economic Policy Institute, a third of companies now require all their workers to sign non-competes. That includes “valued” employees such as hourly workers in minimum wage jobs doing janitorial duties or food service.
Computer World
April 26, 2024
The overtime boost is expected to impact 4.3 million workers, 56% of whom are women and 24% of whom are workers of color, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
CNBC
April 26, 2024
Leelanau County is the most expensive county in the country for food costs, according to a recent national study that’s making the rounds on social media and internet forums.
The Economic Policy Institute, a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit think tank, produces a Family Budget Calculator each year. EPI says the calculator “measures the income a family needs in order to attain a modest yet adequate standard of living.” Costs tied to housing, food, childcare, heath care and more are drawn from diverse data sets and incorporated into the calculator.
Leelanau Ticker
April 26, 2024
An Economic Policy Institute analysis of the rule found that 4.3 million more workers will be eligible for overtime pay because of the rule. That includes 2.4 million more women and 1 million more people of color.
The Washington Post
April 26, 2024