California was one of the first states to enact laws that protect people from discrimination in schools and employment under the CROWN Act in 2019. According to the Economic Policy Institute, Black women’s hairstyles are 2.5 times more likely to be perceived as unprofessional as compared to those of White women.
Sacramento Observer
September 9, 2024
A survey recently published by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) showed that nearly half of students in public schools are Hispanic, Black, or Asian, with Hispanics being the largest group. Meanwhile, 75% of teachers are white, and only 25% are from other racial backgrounds.
This suggests that opening up opportunities and encouraging access for immigrant teachers and those from other racial groups to enter the teaching system would not only help find more bilingual teachers but could also help fill the significant teacher gap nationwide.
Impacto Media
September 9, 2024
Based on the Economic Policy Institute’s estimates, 100 direct jobs in durable goods manufacturing create a total of 744 jobs, while 100 direct jobs in nondurable goods manufacturing create 514 jobs.
Recycling Product News
September 9, 2024
In fact, two adults without kids would need nearly $30,000 more per year in San Francisco than in Miami to cover costs for housing, food, transportation, taxes, health care and other necessities, according to estimates from the Economic Policy Institute.
CNBC
September 9, 2024
According to a September 2023 report from the Economic Policy Institute, “Over the last three decades, compensation grew far faster for CEOs than it did for the top 0.1% of wage earners (those earning more than 99.9% of wage earners). CEO compensation in 2021 (the latest year for which data on top 0.1% wage earners are available) was 7.68 times as high as wages of the top 0.1% of wage earners.”
Investopedia
September 9, 2024
Since the creation of NAFTA, the United States has lost 350,000 jobs in the auto industry while Mexico has gained 450,000. According to the Economic Policy Institute, China’s entry into the WTO has cost 3.5 million American jobs. It is increasingly hard to see how these trade arrangements benefited the American worker.
Newsweek
September 9, 2024
Lynn Rhinehart, a fellow with the left-leaning advocacy organization EPI Action and a former senior counsel to the U.S. labor secretary, said that the difference between a Trump-backed NLRB and a Biden-backed board “could not be more stark.”
In cases like the Bethany College decision, the Trump-backed board excluded workers from the protections of labor law, she explained.
Trump brought in management-side lawyers who favored corporate interests, Rhinehart said, while the Biden administration brought in union-side lawyers who have sided with workers in labor disputes.
Jacksonville Tributary
September 9, 2024
According to an Economic Policy Institute report earlier this year, tipped workers in the South are paid the second lowest median wage of any region. Hispanic workers in the South are also overrepresented in tipped work.
According to research by Nina Mast, a policy and economic analyst with the Economic Policy Institute, the subminimum wage in the U.S. is rooted in the exploitation of formerly enslaved Black workers and dates to the Civil War. Though tipping was eliminated in Europe, it grew in popularity in the U.S. and as racial hostilities and discrimination allowed employers to codify the practice.
AL.com
September 9, 2024
For Black Americans, this has turned into a national 2:1 unemployment ratio compared to our white counterparts, according to a recent report by the Economic Policy Institute, meaning there are twice as many unemployed Black Americans as white Americans.
Breaking this down state-by-state, the EPI learned that Kentucky is the only state with an unemployment rate of over 10% at 11.3% for Black Americans. Washington, D.C. was not far behind with a rate of 9.9%. The states with the lowest rates were South Dakota (3.1%), Vermont (3.3%), and Maryland (3.4%).
Thegrio.com
September 9, 2024
U.S. employers break federal law in around 40 percent of all union elections, according to the Economic Policy Institute. But not all employers take this approach, and research suggests that unions can actually be good for business by reducing turnover and improving worker safety.
Triple Pundit
September 9, 2024