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
According to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), the legislation would immediately benefit 213,000 workers in New York alone. Nationwide, the EPI estimates that one in four U.S. workers currently earns less than $17/hour.
Finger Lakes One
April 14, 2025
“A review by the Economic Policy Institute in September found this narrative [job loss] to be ‘largely wrong’, citing that most minimum wage studies find little to no effect on employment.”
FOX 26 News
April 14, 2025
In most of the country, sending a kid to day care costs more than sending one to a public university according to the latest tally by the Economic Policy Institute. Average costs range from a little under $7,000 a year in Mississippi to over $28,000 in Washington D.C. But in New Mexico, most families can pay nothing at all.
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The state could see a big return on that investment, especially if it helps more parents stay in the workforce, said Elise Gould, senior with the Economic Policy Institute.
“That’s more tax dollars, that’s a larger economy,” she said.
Marketplace
April 14, 2025