“This wouldn’t help very many workers, and it could actually be very harmful to millions more, with the real benefits of this policy change going to employers and the wealthy at the expense of working people,” says David Cooper, researcher from EPI Action, a nonpartisan research and advocacy organization.
NerdWallet
August 20, 2024
Though he has positioned himself as pro-union, Trump is no stranger to complaints about his labor policy and approach to worker rights. In 2020, the Economic Policy Institute released a report listing 50 ways the first Trump administration eroded worker rights and expanded corporate power.
Business Insider
August 20, 2024
Regardless, new immigration laws will have a deep impact on labor availability in agriculture and will need corresponding prioritization of worker programs and securing a consistent and law-abiding workforce for farms. Trump may need to address the growing farmworker wage gap as well, as detailed by the Economic Policy Institute.
GO Banking Rates
August 20, 2024
According to the Economic Policy Institute, “RTW laws — and the phrase “right to work” itself — are intended to deceive and confuse. The misleadingly named policy is designed to make it more difficult for workers to form and sustain unions and negotiate collectively for better wages, benefits, and working conditions.”
GO Banking Rates
August 20, 2024
Mandatory arbitration is now the norm in corporate America, The Post has reported. Because a majority of nonunion jobs in the country require arbitration, 60 million workers can’t sue in court, according to a 2018 report from the left-leaning think tank Economic Policy Institute.
The Washington Post
August 20, 2024
It’s an industry that’s seeing less and less action. According to the Economic Policy Institute, there were more than 192,000 bus drivers across the country in 2023. That’s down more than 15% from 2019 and nearly 100,000 from a decade before.
WVLT-TV
August 20, 2024
Michigan and Ohio are both relatively expensive places to raise children compared to the fastest growing states in the U.S. The average cost for infant care in Michigan is $10,881 or $905 per month, according to the Washington, D.C., think tank Economic Policy Institute. Infant care for one child in the state accounts for 19% of a median family’s income. Infant care costs $9,697 in Ohio, or about $808 per month.
Crain's Detroit Business
August 20, 2024
Stunning stat: Fewer than 1% of agricultural employers are investigated annually, but WHD finds wage and hour violations in 70% of its investigations, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Axios
August 20, 2024
Though Economic Policy Institute’s class of 2024 report notes that young high-school graduates experienced a “faster rebound” in job prospects and strong wage growth through the pandemic recovery, many young people are grappling with jobs that pay low wages or have inconsistent scheduling, an affordable housing crisis, and student debt. These crises, among others, have shaped coming of age for young people, bringing up questions of what it means to support people during a transitional period of life.
Dame Magazine
August 20, 2024
“While the administration may be trumpeting this rule as a good thing for workers, that is a ruse,” Heidi Shierholz, president of the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank partly funded by labor unions, wrote in a statement issued the same day. “In reality, the rule leaves behind millions of workers who would have received overtime protections under the much stronger rule, published in 2016, that Trump administration abandoned.”
“It’s worth noting that if the rule had simply been adjusted for inflation since 1975, today it would be roughly $56,500,” Shierholz wrote. “This is more than $20,000 higher than the Trump administration’s level! I estimate that roughly 8.2 million workers who would have benefited from the 2016 rule will be left behind by the Trump administration’s rule.”
FactCheck.org
August 20, 2024