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
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