Nearly 30 percent of US workers, roughly 44 million people, make less than $17 per hour, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
The Independent
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
The Economic Policy Institute found that states with voucher programs spent $2,800 less per student than those without in 2021.
WKYT
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
The liberal-leaning Economic Policy Institute has also argued that the merger would reduce the number of outside employment options available to workers, lowering grocery store workers’ annual wages by a total of $334 million — about a $450 loss in annual wages per worker.
Dayton Daily News
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
Fiscal Times
August 20, 2024
EPI Action, a nonpartisan research and advocacy organization affiliated with the Economic Policy Institute, published an analysis of a proposal that appears on page 7 of Project 2025’s section on the Treasury Department—whose authors include at least two people who served on Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign and transition team for his term in office.
The proposal calls to tax employers on workplace benefits that exceed $12,000 per worker annually—which would undoubtedly “lead to employers cutting back on these benefits,” wrote Josh Bivens, chief economist for EPI Action.
Based on health insurance benefits that are provided to more than 150 million Americans through their employers, Bivens found, more than 15 million workers would see their benefits taxed under the Project 2025 plan.
Those workers would collectively pay over $12 billion more in taxes if their employers shifted away from providing benefits as a cost-cutting measure.
Common Dreams
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
Teachers nationally earned 73.6 cents for every dollar that other professionals made in 2022 – or 26.4% less than comparable college graduates – according to a report by Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit think tank Economic Policy Institute. The educator pay gap in Pennsylvania in 2022 was 15.8%, according to the institute.
Lancaster Online
August 20, 2024