Jennifer Scherer from the Economic Policy Institute — an independent, nonprofit think tank that seeks to strengthen labor standards — highlighted a national increase in child labor violations. Since 2019, federal investigators have found an 88 percent increase in children being employed in violation of federal labor provisions.
She said state officials, however, have been reluctant to enforce state labor laws.
“So in some ways, the decrease in the penalty amounts is almost a moot question when we’ve got a state agency that, to our knowledge, since January of 2023, has not issued any penalties at all, including in some cases that have very clear violations that involve hazards or assignment of youth work outside of work guidelines,” Scherer said.
The Gazette
January 9, 2025
According to the Economic Policy Institute, nearly seven in 10 (68%) white Americans between the ages of 32 and 61 had money in a retirement account in 2016, up about one percentage point from 2007.
Our Weekly (Los Angeles)
January 9, 2025
The average CEO makes around $16 million, according to data from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) — and that’s without getting into the incompetence of many top-level executives.
Futurism
January 9, 2025
…the no tax on tips promise that had the most sticking power, said Heidi Shierholz, president of the Economic Policy Institute….[paywall].
CNN Business
January 9, 2025
“It is unlikely that a large share of the unauthorized immigrant population will be deported quickly,” said Daniel Costa, director of immigration law and policy research for the Economic Policy Institute. “But there’s a lot the Trump 2.0 administration can do to remove a high number fast.”
Good Times Online (Santa Cruz)
January 9, 2025
Fees can be especially punishing for gig workers like those who rely on Handy as a primary source of income. In a 2022 survey by the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute, 14% of gig workers reported earning less than the federal minimum wage. One in five said they’d gone hungry because they couldn’t afford enough to eat; nearly one-third didn’t pay their entire utility bill in the month prior to the survey.
TechCrunch
January 8, 2025
“Workers are going to quit at higher rates when they feel more confidence that they’re going to find a better opportunity,” Elise Gould, senior economist with the Economic Policy Institute, told CNN on Tuesday. “That’s the best way that workers can get ahead and see stronger wage growth is to quit their job and find another one.”
CNN Business
January 8, 2025
For example, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, “when it comes to the pace of annual pay increases, the top 1% wage grew 138% since 1979, while wages for the bottom 90% grew 15%.”
U.S. News & World Report
January 8, 2025
More than 9.2 million U.S. workers saw a raise when the wage increases set in, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
CNBC
January 8, 2025
A study from the Economic Policy Institute found nationally, workers lose out on $15 billion in wages just from minimum wage violations.
Public News Service
January 8, 2025