According to the Economic Policy Institute, about 3% of Arizonans earn the minimum wage.
FOX 10 Phoenix
January 8, 2025
Yet only a fraction of these wages are ever recovered. A 2021 study from the Economic Policy Institute found that only $3.24 billion in stolen wages were recovered from 2017 to 2020 through Department of Labor investigations, state agencies, or class action lawsuits. Of the small portion of recovered stolen wages, an even tinier amount is recovered by the federal government through the Department of Labor.
Popular Information
January 8, 2025
Growing awareness about inequality has not led to much progress in narrowing it. Even with some headway being made since the pandemic, annual earnings for the bottom 90% grew just 44% between 1979 and 2023, while earnings for the top 1% increased by 182%, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank.
MarketWatch
January 8, 2025
During Trump’s first term, the NLRB issued several decisions that weakened worker protections under federal labor law, according to a report from the pro-labor nonprofit Economic Policy Institute.
Sacramento Bee
January 8, 2025
Those delays can weaken union efforts, said Margaret Poydock, a senior researcher at the Economic Policy Institute. “With turnover, it diminishes worker solidarity over time,” said Poydock. Federal labor law allows unionized workers without a contract to vote to decertify an election after one year.
Louisiana Illuminator
January 8, 2025
Observing that the state’s unemployment is under 4%, she suggested higher pay will help businesses keep well-performing workers rather than bear the expense of training new ones. She cited a review of minimum-wage studies by the labor union-backed Economic Policy Institute finding wage-floor hikes don’t lead to layoffs.
Delaware Live
January 8, 2025
Though the sizes of these hourly wage bumps differ significantly, they’ll collectively put an additional $5.7 billion into the pockets of 9.2 million working people, according to the progressive Economic Policy Institute (EPI) think tank.
Inc.
January 8, 2025
A report published Friday by the progressive-leaning think tank the Economic Policy Institute found that federal, state, and local efforts were able to recover more than $1.5 billion in stolen wages between 2021 and 2023.
Common Dreams
January 8, 2025
The minimum wage increased this month in both Denver and the state of Colorado.
Why it matters: An estimated 260,800 local employees will benefit from the pay bumps directly and indirectly, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Axios Denver
January 8, 2025
Why it matters: The increases lift the pay of more than 9.2 million people, per the Economic Policy Institute’s tally.
- Millions more will benefit. When the wage floor rises, that means pay goes up for other workers at the bottom of the income ladder, too.
Axios
January 8, 2025