Although women are more likely to graduate from college than men and more likely to receive a graduate degree than their male counterparts, they are paid less than men at every education level, the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, says.
MarketWatch
July 29, 2024
A March report from the Economic Policy Institute found that not all states have amended their education codes to protect public and private high school students, and that some states have allowed certain exceptions to the CROWN Act.
Associated Press
July 29, 2024
Just how many workers in the United States are considered low-wage employees? According to the Economic Policy Institute, 31 million people in the U.S. earn under $17 per hour. That’s about 21% of the workforce.
GO Banking Rates
July 29, 2024
In 20 states, mostly in the South and Midwest, the federal minimum wage is in effect, according to the Economic Policy Institute. The other 30 states and Washington, D.C. have minimum wages higher than the federal standard, according to EPI data.
Additionally, at least 63 cities and towns — including New York City and Los Angeles — have local minimum wages higher than their state’s requirement, with new wage hikes still occurring, according to the EPI. Chicago’s minimum wage rose to $16.20 per hour this month.
NPR
July 29, 2024
That wage growth is due in part to a tight labor market and state-level minimum wage increases from 2019 to 2023, according to the nonprofit think tank Economic Policy Institute.
Business Insider
July 29, 2024
The think tanks on the right — the American Action Forum (AAF), the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the Manhattan Institute (MI) — prefer to emphasize spending reductions to free up funding for deficit reduction. The think tanks on the left, the Center for American Progress (CAP) and the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), and those closer to the center — the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) and the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) — more typically call for more tax increases to help fill in the fiscal gap.
The Fiscal Times
July 29, 2024
The Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, estimates that nearly 30% of Black workers would see a raise due to the $17 proposal, along with nearly a quarter of Hispanic workers.
Huffpost
July 29, 2024
To get a better picture of what might make an area least vulnerable to natural hazards and still boast the creature comforts of basic infrastructure, NerdWallet set a population control of at least 100,000 people. It includes the annual cost of living in 2023 dollars, according to the Economic Policy Institute’s Family Budget Calculator for households comprising two adults and two children.
NerdWallet
July 29, 2024
In outlining “fifty reasons the Trump Administration is bad for workers,” the Economic Policy Institute wrote in 2020 that President Trump “systematically promoted the interests of corporate executives and shareholders over those of working people and failed to protect workers’ safety, wages, and rights.”
The Progressive Magazine
July 29, 2024