Misclassifying workers can cost workers as much as $18,000 each year in income and job benefits, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
Quartz
January 21, 2025
An income of $118,000 doesn’t sound like cheap labor. But a 2020 report from the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute found that employers generally undercut local wages when they hire H-1B workers, paying them below market rates.
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A more recent report from the economic think tank found that the top 30 H-1B employers hired more than 34,000 new visa workers in 2022, while simultaneously laying off at least 85,000 workers in 2022 and early 2023.
USA Today
January 21, 2025
At the heart of these changes are 21 states that will increase their minimum wage effective January 1, 2025. These adjustments will affect a diverse range of workers, from those in fast-food chains to retail staff, and are projected to impact approximately 9.2 million people. Together, these employees are expected to earn an additional $5.7 billion in wages over the course of the year, according to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI).
CEO Today
January 21, 2025
Last year the Economic Policy Institute found that more than 60 million non-union workers wished they had union representation, and the NLRB received more requests for union elections than they have in years.
Forbes
January 21, 2025
…billion in additional earnings, according to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. This marks one of the largest-ever state minimum…[paywall].
Forbes
January 21, 2025
The average adult in Northwest Arkansas spends $337 a month on groceries, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Eliminating the grocery tax would save them 42 cents a month.
40/29 News
January 21, 2025
“You cannot reverse four and a half decades of rising inequality with a few years of absolute good economic outcomes and policy changes,” said Heidi Shierholz, president of the Economic Policy Institute. “But one of the most fundamental things they did was provide relief recovery at the scale that was needed to generate a strong jobs recovery.”
Reuters
January 21, 2025
There are a few left-leaning think tanks and policy outfits like Public Citizen, NAACP, ACLU, Center for American Progress, Economic Policy Institute, Roosevelt Institute, Demos, and the Century Foundation. None of these, however, have levels of funding, inter-agency coordination, or integration with the Democratic Party that even begins to approximate the list of conservative organizations above.
Hartmann Report
January 21, 2025
In a recent report for the Economic Policy Instituteand the Center for Economic and Policy Research,…[paywall].
The Boston Globe
January 21, 2025
A study by the Economic Policy Institute found that, if the Fair Labor Standards Act protection were extended to teachers, almost a quarter of us make so little that we would be eligible for the overtime pay.
The Hechinger Report
January 21, 2025