The left-leaning Economic Policy Institute notes that in 1975, more than 60% of full-time salaried workers were eligible to earn overtime pay. But over the decades, as earnings increased and the regulation failed to keep pace, the share of covered workers fell sharply — to 7% by 2016.
NPR
December 16, 2024
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.
Capital & Main
December 16, 2024
…growth for prime-age workers has been from immigration,” said Daniel Costa, director of immigration law and policy research with the…[paywall].
Globe and Mail
December 16, 2024
Across the nation there were approximately 199,000 public school bus drivers, which is a 12% decrease from September 2019 according to a November 2024 study by the Economic Policy Institute.
“Asking fewer bus drivers to pick up more students means longer routes, earlier morning pick-ups, and later drop-offs,” EPI wrote. “These burdensome logistics can increase the likelihood of a student missing school time and diminish their chances of participating in other activities — not to mention the additional burden they can place on parents trying to coordinate work schedules.”
Sedona Red Rock News
December 16, 2024
Trump’s first term was a series of constant attacks on workers’ rights — in 2020 the Economic Policy Institute chronicled the first Trump administration’s 50 most egregious attacks on working people. Now, it seems as if the NLRB seesaw will usher in more attempts to dismantle worker rights such as the right to organize, to protect workplace health and safety rules, and to assure overtime pay.
Clean Technica
December 16, 2024
New information this week helped to show how much workers have gained under Biden: The Economic Policy Institute reported yesterday that “Wage inequality fell for the second year in a row in 2023” in America.
“Average real earnings mostly held steady in 2023 (–0.1%) as inflation receded, but there were significant differences across the earnings distribution,” EPI writes. “The bottom 90% experienced the only growth of any group in 2023 (+0.9%), while the top 5% and the top 1% experienced losses of 2.0% and 3.3%, respectively. Even the top 0.1% experienced real wage losses in 2023 (–4.7%).”
Civic Ventures
December 16, 2024
In 1965, the CEO-to-worker pay ratio was 21-to-one, meaning it would take 21 years for a typical employee to match what their CEO made in a year. In 2022, the ratio was 344-to-one, according to the Economic Policy Institute, with a projected average …
Bloomberg
December 16, 2024
She added, “In fact, the Economic Policy Institute finds Virginia’s teacher wage penalty, the gap between education attainment and commensurate private sector pay, to be the worst in the nation,” a problem that needs to be addressed at multiple levels in the state “if Falls Church wants to continue to be able to be competitive in our hiring.”
Falls Church News Press
December 16, 2024
..Latina workers were unemployed in April 2020, according to the Economic Policy Institute. “They turned to entrepreneurship as a…
Sacramento Bee
December 16, 2024