As the Economic Policy Institute’s Celine McNicholas points out, labor observers will want to see what positions she takes on policies such as overtime protections for workers or workplace safety inspections. During Trump’s first term, his administration robbed workers of automatic overtime protection and rolled back workplace safety inspections. He also pursued countless other policies that benefited the wealthy while eviscerating regulations and policies that improve the lives of ordinary workers.
MSNBC.com
November 26, 2024
Cites EPI data on median real wages.
MarketWatch
November 25, 2024
The number of drivers employed across the country in 2023 was down 15.1% from 2019, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
The Dispatch (Mississippi)
November 25, 2024
In addition to that, organizations such as the Economic Policy Institute highlight the overall economic benefits of unions, including increased government revenue, reductions in wage inequality, and increased civic engagement. It will never be just union workers in this fight together. It is all of us who depend on someone else to sign our checks.
Daily Pennsylvanian
November 25, 2024
During the Obama administration, the Department of Labor expanded the number of workers eligible for 1.5 times pay if they work more than 40 hours a week to those earning up to about $47,000 a year — about 33 percent of people, according to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank that focuses on the needs of low- and middle-income workers.
19th News
November 25, 2024
Research by the Economic Policy Institute found that social class, as defined by parental income, education and job, is the leading predictor for a student’s school readiness: Kindergartners from the highest social class possess more theory-based skills and perform an entire standard deviation higher on math and reading tests than kindergartners from the lowest social class.
EdSource
November 25, 2024
In Pennsylvania, the number of people without insurance would rise by 134%. According to the Economic Policy Institute, 956,000 people would be at risk of losing their health insurance.
WHP-TV (Harrisburg)
November 25, 2024
The typical household headed by someone ages 55 to 64 has just $10,000 saved in a retirement account, according to an analysis of federal data by the Economic Policy Institute and the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis.
ABC News
November 25, 2024
A 2018 Economic Policy Institute report found that when Amazon opens a warehouse, the number of warehouse jobs goes up, but the total number of jobs in an area does not change, with new warehousing jobs “likely offset by job losses in other industries.”
Providence Journal
November 25, 2024