The average CEO makes around $16 million, according to data from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) — and that’s without getting into the incompetence of many top-level executives.
Futurism
January 9, 2025
…the no tax on tips promise that had the most sticking power, said Heidi Shierholz, president of the Economic Policy Institute….[paywall].
CNN Business
January 9, 2025
“It is unlikely that a large share of the unauthorized immigrant population will be deported quickly,” said Daniel Costa, director of immigration law and policy research for the Economic Policy Institute. “But there’s a lot the Trump 2.0 administration can do to remove a high number fast.”
Good Times Online (Santa Cruz)
January 9, 2025
Fees can be especially punishing for gig workers like those who rely on Handy as a primary source of income. In a 2022 survey by the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute, 14% of gig workers reported earning less than the federal minimum wage. One in five said they’d gone hungry because they couldn’t afford enough to eat; nearly one-third didn’t pay their entire utility bill in the month prior to the survey.
TechCrunch
January 8, 2025
“Workers are going to quit at higher rates when they feel more confidence that they’re going to find a better opportunity,” Elise Gould, senior economist with the Economic Policy Institute, told CNN on Tuesday. “That’s the best way that workers can get ahead and see stronger wage growth is to quit their job and find another one.”
CNN Business
January 8, 2025
For example, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, “when it comes to the pace of annual pay increases, the top 1% wage grew 138% since 1979, while wages for the bottom 90% grew 15%.”
U.S. News & World Report
January 8, 2025
More than 9.2 million U.S. workers saw a raise when the wage increases set in, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
CNBC
January 8, 2025
A study from the Economic Policy Institute found nationally, workers lose out on $15 billion in wages just from minimum wage violations.
Public News Service
January 8, 2025
State legislatures across the country have been responding to local efforts to increase the minimum wage by taking control away from cities and towns, called “preemption,” according to a report by the Economic Policy Institute.
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There is another way of raising the minimum wage as 13 states peg increases in the minimum wage to rising inflation rates, according to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute.
Providence Journal
January 8, 2025
These wages hikes are expected to affect more than 9.2 million workers, raising their pay by a combined $5.7 billion, according to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). Although teenage workers are disproportionately likely to be minimum wage workers, the EPI noted that the vast majority of affected workers (88%) are adults.
Convenience Store News
January 8, 2025