Project 2025 calls for undoing the Biden administration’s overtime pay expansions and also proposes ways for employers to avoid paying it to those who do qualify, eroding its status as a bedrock labor protection.
In each of Project 2025’s overtime provisions, “Workers do not get any additional benefits. It is only employers who get additional benefits,” said Heidi Shierholz, an economist with Economic Policy Institute Action, a nonpartisan advocacy group focused on economic issues. Employers are granted various ways to avoid paying extra for extra work while benefiting from a worker’s labor. “It is an extremely anti-overtime agenda,” she said.
Capital & Main
October 21, 2024
The Economic Policy Institute though, believes that to be in the top 1% of…[paywall].
Forbes
October 21, 2024
Sinclair Broadcast Group
October 21, 2024
Along with those in the industry pushing for less child labor protections, legislators in more than 30 states have taken steps to weaken them since 2021, Governing for Impact, the Economic Policy Institute and Child Labor Coalition wrote in their report.
NewsNation
October 21, 2024
“Since 2014, 12 states have passed minimum wage increases through ballot measures,” Martinez Hickey told CNBC.
In many states, he added, “a statewide ballot initiative is the only plausible pathway, because conservative legislatures have failed to raise the wage.”
CNBC
October 21, 2024
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
October 17, 2024
Some state governments are gutting child protections as rates of child labor violations, injuries and chronic school absenteeism rise, according to a report released Tuesday.
Produced by the Governing for Impact, the Economic Policy Institute and the Child Labor Coalition, the report suggests actions the Biden-Harris administration can take to combat a surge in child labor violations around the country, including a trend of some states passing legislation to roll back child labor protections.
EdSource
October 17, 2024
Features interview with Adam Hersh as part of EPI Action on Trump/Harris economic policies.
Fox 40 Sacramento
October 17, 2024
Josh Bivens, chief economist at the Economic Policy Institute Action: He says Harris’ plans seem realistic, especially expanding the insulin cap to more Americans. There’s just some question of how her plans could be implemented.
NerdWallet
October 17, 2024