According to the Economic Policy Institute, the top 1% of locals across Teton County make an…[paywall].
Business Insider
November 18, 2024
Trump’s promise to create a national deportation force to round up millions of undocumented immigrants will, at the very least, destabilize a healthy chunk of the local economy. Immigrant-owned businesses and workers, who represent 16% of the workforce, generate $104 billion in economic output in Virginia, according to a recent report by the Immigration Research Initiative, Economic Policy Institute and the Commonwealth Institute for Fiscal Analysis.
The Daily Progress
November 18, 2024
Bus driver shortages have been an ongoing issue both locally and across the country. Data from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) indicates that from September 2019 to September 2023, there was a 15.1% decrease in the total number of K-12 bus drivers nationwide. Private school bus driver employment also declined by 21.5% over the same four-year period.
Saratoga Today
November 18, 2024
Baltimore Sun
November 18, 2024
Employers often compel employees to attend captive audience meetings in order to denounce unionization, particularly when a union drive is underway or seems imminent. According to an analysis from the Washington D.C.-based think tank Economic Policy Institute, up to 89% of NLRB-supervised union campaigns in the U.S. between 1999 and 2003 featured captive audience meetings.
Courthouse News Service
November 18, 2024
According to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI)—a Washington, D.C.-based, pro-union think tank—U.S. employers spend an estimated $433 million per year on union-busting consultants.
“This reality makes it harder for workers to fight for their collective bargaining rights because they do not know the extent of their companies’ investments in union-busting, a figure that could empower them at the negotiating table when employers claim they can’t afford to increase pay and benefits,” EPI said last year.
Common Dreams
November 18, 2024
In these areas, Black communities often seek economic mobility. Data from the Economic Policy Institute suggests that tax policies benefiting corporations without targeted support for lower-income communities tend to increase economic disparities.
Seattle Medium
November 18, 2024
And if you funded other groups — and I take your point about the Democrats being rhetorically and sometimes substantively more pro-labor, but I think the Economic Policy Institute is like that — the only real protrade union think tank of any stature in Washington still, right?
The Ezra Klein Show (New York Times)
November 18, 2024
Schroeder noted that unionized California public employees were insulated from any changes the Trump administration might make to the National Labor Relations Board. 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
November 18, 2024
According to a report published by the Economic Policy Institute, on average, a worker covered by a union contract earns 10.2 percent more in wages than a peer with similar education, occupation, and experience in a nonunionized workplace in the same industry; hourly wages for women represented by a union are 4.7 percent higher on average than for nonunionized women with comparable characteristics.
Nonprofit Quarterly
November 18, 2024