Wage theft is a growing epidemic across the U.S., costing American workers an estimated $50 billion a year in stolen money, according to a 2023 study by the Economic Policy Institute. New York state leaders are trying to recover stolen wages.
Spectrum News 1
July 15, 2024
That struggle mimics a larger trend across the U.S. A study from the Economic Policy Institute says there were about 192,000 drivers nationwide last September, down about 15% from 2019.
News 9
July 15, 2024
A two-parent, two-child household in Wake County spends about $1,113 a month on food, according to cost of living estimates from the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank based in Washington, D.C. That breaks down to roughly $278 per child—more than twice as much as the summer stipend from SUN Bucks.
North Carolina Health News
July 15, 2024
But these clauses also cover a wide range of workers, with about half of private-sector businesses in the U.S. requiring at least some employees to sign noncompete agreements, according to a 2019 study from the Economic Policy Institute.
Worklife News
July 15, 2024
For localities, surpassing pre-pandemic job levels is a good sign, but probably not enough given the governments’ expanding needs and population growth, said Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, which studies policies for low- and middle-income workers.
“It’s a good benchmark, but it’s probably still not nearly enough,” she said.
Bloomberg
July 15, 2024
Research from the Economic Policy Institute indicates that unions are associated with higher wages, less income inequality, smaller wage gaps, and improved health and safety among other benefits. Project 2025 wants to dismantle workers’ rights to organize via unions and proposes that employees instead be provided a less powerful alternative called “employee involvement organizations.”
Forbes
July 15, 2024
But as the summer job has been slowly phasing out of the typical American teenage experience, many state legislatures have been attacking child labor laws. According to the Economic Policy Institute, more than 30 states have introduced legislation to roll back child labor laws since 2021, and eight states have enacted those bills in 2024 alone.
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“There’s often a disconnect, especially when in states where these lawmakers are proposing rollbacks, where they sort of describe this workforce as if it’s like teens who just want to earn a little bit of extra pocket change and work in movie theaters. Those are the same youth they bring to the hearings to talk about how meaningful and fun it is to work in these jobs,” said Nina Mast, an analyst at the Economic Policy Institute who focuses on child labor standards. “They’re always ignoring the reality that a lot of the most dangerous and difficult jobs are being done by migrant youth or other marginalized young people who are not being represented in these conversations.”
VOX
July 15, 2024
The Biden administration raised that threshold to $43,888 beginning July 1, and that will rise to $58,656 on Jan. 1, 2025. That would grant overtime eligibility to about 4 million workers, the Labor Department said. The Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning Washington, D.C.-based think tank, put that number at 4.3 million workers.
Politifact
July 15, 2024