The foreign-owned firms’ payrolls also reflect Alabama’s long history of racial discrimination, with Black and Latino workers earning substantially less than their white counterparts. By contrast, the Economic Policy Institute has found that union workers make 10.1 percent more on average than non-union workers.
Inequality.org
May 3, 2024
According to a 2019 report by the Economic Policy Institute, a national survey of private-sector businesses showed that 49.4 percent had at least some employees who were subject to non-compete clauses and 31.8 percent said all employees were required to enter into the agreement.
KRWG
May 3, 2024
In Ohio, as of the third quarter of 2023, Ohio’s Black unemployment stood at 6.1%, according to the Economic Policy Institute and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Ohio Capital Journal
May 3, 2024
Noncompetes are bad for workers, bad for consumers, and bad for the broader economy. By banning them, the FTC’s rule will help raise wages for workers and take an important step toward creating an economy that is not only strong but also works for working people.
Inequality.org
May 3, 2024
Black Americans typically suffer rates of unemployment twice those of white Americans. In Georgia, that gap has widened: Black unemployment reached 5.7 percent at the end of last year, while white unemployment was at 2.2 percent, according to an analysis of federal data by the Economic Policy Institute.
New York Times
May 3, 2024
The tech companies, meanwhile, are geared up for a fight. Collectively, they’ve spent hundreds of millions of dollars around the country — including nearly $50 million over two election cycles in Massachusetts, according to a new report coauthored by the worker advocacy nonprofit National Employment Law Project — and worked to successfully pass laws in 34 states between 2015 and 2022 with language defining gig workers as non-employees, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Boston Globe
May 3, 2024
The DOL will automatically update the threshold every three years using current wage data. The next adjustment would occur on July 1, 2027. The new rule would impact 4.3 million U.S. workers, according to the Economic Policy Institute, or 3% of workers subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Retail Dive
May 3, 2024
A recent study published by the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank, finds that the U.S. economy does better when a Democrat is in the White House than when a Republican is in charge (bit.ly/EPIstudy2024).
The study looked at gross domestic product growth, job growth, inflation-adjusted wage growth, the unemployment rate and more. It found that the Democrats have had an economic advantage since at least 1949.
The study also found that economic gains are “distributed substantially more equally” when a Democrat is in the White House.
Lancaster Online
May 3, 2024
But without the rule, tipped-wage earners—especially women and people of color—will lose out on an important safety net, The Economic Policy Institute, National Women’s Law Center and Restaurant Opportunities Center United, said in an amicus brief to the Fifth Circuit defending the policy.
Bloomberg Law
May 3, 2024
The labor department’s wage and hour division found violations in 88% of the H-2A investigations it opened in the last five years. But most farm employers are never inspected by the agency because it lacks funding and staffing, according to a recent study from the Economic Policy Institute.
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Costa expects legal challenges to the new rule, but he said the Department of Labor has the authority to make these “modest and reasonable” changes to the H-2A program’s standards.
“The law requires that the U.S. government protect labor standards in the H-2A program, so they have a lot of authority to set that program up,” said Costa, director of immigration law and policy research at Economic Policy Institute. “And I think it’s good to use that authority to have updated protections that reflect the reality for H-2A workers.”
KQED
May 3, 2024