Economists attribute this decline to more rapid wage gains for high school graduates. The Economic Policy Institute reports that between 2020 and 2024, young high school graduates saw a 9.4% real (inflation-adjusted) wage growth, compared to a mere 2.2% increase for college graduates.
Market Realist
June 3, 2024
Dave Kamper, senior state policy strategist at the Economic Policy Institute, stated: “While this result shows the power of corporations and state governments to smother worker efforts to unionize, even in defeat, the UAW helped Mercedes workers win substantial improvements in pay and benefits. The more workers band together to fight for better jobs, the more likely they and other workers will see the benefits.”
Nation of Change
June 3, 2024
In fact, a report from the Economic Policy Institute offers that the job market for young college graduates from 2024 is perhaps stronger now than before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Another analysis showed about 83% of employers expect boosting or maintaining hiring of 2024 graduates.
Black Enterprise
June 3, 2024
Generally, high school graduation rates have increased nationally the past decade, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. And the nationwide gains were much larger than the minor positive impacts observed at voucher schools, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Up North News
June 3, 2024
Joining Barber and his co-chair, the Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis, was a much less conventional array of experts. The Poor People’s Campaign had, in fact, partnered with some think-tank experts, like John Cavanaugh, the director of the Institute for Policy Studies, and Thea Lee, the president of the Economic Policy Institute, to write a fourteen-point policy plan pushing for poverty relief through a steep increase in the federal minimum wage, a single-payer universal health-care program, and student debt relief. That officials from think tanks based in D.C. presented a detailed policy proposal was itself nothing new for the transition period. This was the right time to make big asks.
Rolling Stone
June 3, 2024
Still, a 2017 report from the Economic Policy Institute found that, out of the 10 most populous states, minimum wage workers were least likely to be paid the bare minimum in Florida, with wage theft affecting an estimated one in four of Florida’s low-wage workers — our neighbors, friends and family members.
Orlando Weekly
June 3, 2024
The Economic Policy Institute says the minimum living wage is the income needed for a family of one adult and one child to have a modest but adequate standard of living in the most affordable metro area.
FOX 10 Phoenix
June 3, 2024
Nevertheless, the idea that the Senate would act on Ditelberg’s nomination without McFerran is a complete nonstarter under current leadership, said Celine McNicholas, general counsel and director of policy and governmental affairs at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
“The last time I checked, Democrats have the majority in the Senate,” said McNicholas, an NLRB official during the Obama administration.
Bloomberg Law
June 3, 2024
In fact, it increased again in the US for low-wage women, moving from 20.3% to 22.2% between 2019 and 2022, as cited by The Economic Policy Institute.
Forbes
June 3, 2024
“A lot of people just didn’t really know much about unions,” Knecht said. “So, it came down more to educating people on the unionizing process and how they work for us. Once you’ve kind of explained those things, people are on board.”
One way of educating was showing Economic Policy Institute statistics to coworkers that demonstrated the benefits of unionizing, Brown said.
NBC4i
June 3, 2024