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
A 2019 study by the Economic Policy Institute showed that the median white family had $184,000 in family wealth (property and cash), while the median Latino family had $38,000 and the median Black family had $23,000.
Sacramento Observer
December 16, 2024
“The states that have the option to put these issues on the ballot have seen them met with success repeatedly,” said Jennifer Sherer, an acting deputy director at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute. “So we’re at this point where, either through ballot initiative or legislation, there are 30 states that have already raised their minimum wage beyond the federal level.”
Politico Morning Shift
December 16, 2024
The minimum wage increases will benefit three million employees across the country, and indirectly raise the pay of 6.2 million better-paid workers, according to analysis from the Economic Policy Institute.
Daily Mail
December 16, 2024
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
A recent report by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, or EPI, found that the number of people in the United State driving school buses had declined by 40,000 over the pandemic and by 100,000 compared with 2008, prior to the Great Recession. At the same time, wages of school bus drivers continue to be well below other professions and have failed to grow as fast over time as other workers.
The Advocate
December 16, 2024