The coalition letter to Hochul and the legislature was undersigned by ALIGN: The Alliance for a Greater New York, Citizen Action of New York, Coalition for Economic Justice, Community Voices Heard, District Council 37 AFSCME, Economic Policy Institute…
News Nation Now
November 25, 2024
What else can explain the bad vibes? Misinformation, according to Heidi Shierholz, president of the Economic Policy Institute and former chief economist at the Department of Labor under the Obama administration. She explained that when Americans were asked to reflect on their financial situation, on average people would say they were better off today than they were in 2019. But when asked the same question about the broader U.S. economy, without hesitation they would say no. “That gap, in my mind, that’s misinformation,” Shierholz told Slate. “People have perfect information over what’s going on in their own lives, but as far as what’s going on in the broader economy, they just take what they’re hearing.”
Slate
November 25, 2024
In recent years, labor unions and politicians they support have argued for a path to legal status for those who have lived in the United States for years without authorization. They also generally support changes to guest worker programs, used in seasonal industries like agriculture, fishing, hospitality and landscaping, that would raise pay and allow workers to move around to different jobs. Such provisions could make employers less likely to use those programs to undercut wages for Americans.
That’s the approach Daniel Costa favors. He is the director of Immigration Law and Policy Research at the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank funded partly by labor unions that advocates greater resources for the Department of Labor to go after employers that violate wage and hour laws. The agency does so in a way that is blind to immigration status, lifting conditions for all workers.
“It’s employers that are using immigration to degrade wages and standards,” Mr. Costa said. “Immigrants are being used as a scapegoat and being blamed, while a whole slew of policies that would actually improve conditions for workers are being ignored.”
New York Times
November 25, 2024
The Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a nonprofit, nonpartisan think-tank, found that 89% of employers use captive audience meetings to try to stop the creation of unions among their workers. In fact, employer spending to prevent the formation of unions has reached $400 million a year for anti-union consultants.
New York Amsterdam News
November 25, 2024
The most expensive place to raise children is Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Las Vegas was just behind Los Angeles and beat out cities such as San Francisco, Denver and Boston. The study used the Economic Policy Institute’s Family Budget Calculator and compared two adult households to households with a couple with no kids.
Las Vegas Review-Journal
November 25, 2024
I was reporting from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, one of the most unequal places in America. According to the Economic Policy Institute, the top 1% of residents earn 132 times more than the bottom 99%.
Business Insider
November 25, 2024
There is a shortage of school bus drivers nationwide. According to the Economic Policy Institute, as of this past September, there are more than 12% fewer drivers on the road than in September 2019.
Escambia County Public Schools says its feeling the effect. School officials tell WEAR News this shortage is not new.
WEAR-TV (Florida)
November 25, 2024
Organizations like Americans for Tax Fairness, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and the Economic Policy Institute have long concluded that the TCJA favored the rich and would do so again if made permanent, as Trump proposes. Therefore, it’s logical that many of its provisions would also favor the upper middle class — but not enough to offset what the Tax Foundation and ITEP agree will be the high cost of tariffs.
GO Banking Rates
November 25, 2024
And many may need the additional help considering that, as of 2019, just over 1-in-3 workers between 55 and 64 years old lacked access to an employer-sponsored retirement plan, according to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI).
MoneyWise
November 25, 2024
A recent study used data from the Economic Policy Institute’s (EPI) Family Budget Calculator to determine the most expensive locations for raising kids in the U.S. Researchers at Upgraded Points calculated the percentage difference in the required living costs to maintain a modest but adequate standard of living for a 2-adult household compared to 2-adult households without children. The costs factored in housing, child care, health care, transportation, food and other necessities.
FOX 10 Phoenix
November 25, 2024