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 13, 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 13, 2024
In particular, the short-term holiday rental platform Airbnb has become a lightning rod for local anger at skyrocketing rental prices. A recent study from the Economic Policy Institute, a U.S.-based think tank, found that Airbnb’s “introduction and expansion in New York City … may have raised average rents by nearly $400 annually for city residents.” And in Barcelona, rental prices have risen by a staggering 68 percent in less than a decade.
Yahoo News
November 12, 2024
Repealing the ACA without a replacement would leave most enrollees without health insurance. Those people would visit health care providers less often, possibly costing the industry 1.2 million jobs, the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute calculated.
Houston Chronicle
November 12, 2024
“Generally speaking, voters still want policies that improve job quality and strengthen protections for workers,” said David Cooper, director of the Economic Analysis and Research Network at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank based in Washington, D.C. “That is what we’ve seen virtually anytime a ballot measure on the minimum wage is put forward”
Pluribus News
November 12, 2024
David Cooper, the director of the Economic Analysis and Research Network at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, told BI there’s been a “real sea change” in people’s understanding of the impact of hikes. Both he and Lathrop have observed a move away from the belief that higher minimum wages would lead to fewer jobs and toward research showing that pay hikes mean higher pay with minimal job loss.
“Raising the minimum wage almost always has bipartisan support except among elected Republican officials. So there is a disconnect between what elected Republicans want to do around minimum wage policy and what their voters overwhelming — at least by and large — tend to want them to do,” Cooper said.
Business Insider
November 12, 2024
To understand why Americans took out their frustrations around inflation at the polls you first need to understand that the bottom 60% of workers saw a real, or inflation adjusted, wage increase of only around $3 per hour between 1973 and 2023. (Hourly wage data are from the Current Population Survey Outgoing Rotation Group. Workers include all wage and salary workers 16 or older, which excludes the self-employed, and wages are adjusted for inflation using the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumer Research Series. The data was prepared by the Economic Policy Institute.)
Bloomberg
November 12, 2024
A 2023 study by the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank focused on financial inequalities, found the racial wage gap for Black workers has stayed about the same since the 1970s. The average Black worker in the U.S. is paid 23% less than a white worker, compared to 22% less in 1973. The study also notes the average white family has eight times as much wealth as a Black family.
USA Today
November 12, 2024
For Alaska, I saw one estimate from the Economic Policy Institute that says the increase will affect about 10% of workers, and more than half that group is women. In Missouri, it’s about 12%, and one estimate from a group called the Missouri Budget Project says workers will get an extra thousand bucks every year.
NPR Planet Money
November 12, 2024
The prospect of the Trump administration veering from the standard playbook on NLRB members seems possible given the ongoing constitutional challenges to their removal protections, said Celine McNicholas, general counsel and director of policy and governmental affairs at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
Bloomberg Law
November 12, 2024