Proponents of the bill said that not all employers follow the law and dependency on tips perpetuates inequalities. A 2014 report from the Economic Policy Institute think tank found at that time 66% of tipped workers were women and the poverty rate of tipped workers was almost double that of nontipped workers.
Capitol News Illinois
April 5, 2024
This week, the Economic Policy Institute issued a report that looks deeply into the economic records of American presidents from 1949 to the present, and it came to some interesting conclusions. On every single economic metric — from Gross Domestic Product to job growth, the unemployment rate, wage growth, income per capita, inflation, and interest rates — Democratic presidents have outperformed their Republican peers.
Civic Ventures
April 5, 2024
Cites EPI study on Democratic/Republican economic performance
Thom Hartmann Program Live
April 5, 2024
The Economic Policy Institute ranks Connecticut as the 5th most expensive state for child care.
CT Insider
April 5, 2024
Yet Casey’s argument finds backing from a handful of studies, including a report from the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal and pro-union group. Its researchers identified three major components of price increases for goods and services: labor cost, non-labor cost (these would be factors such as supply-chain disruptions), and corporate profit.
RealClearPolitics
April 5, 2024
Minimum wage advocates are pushing for the wage increase as the cost of living in Minnesota exceeds the state minimum wage of $10.85, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Minnesota Daily
April 5, 2024
In fact, the St. Louis Fed shows that business productivity is actually up 400% since then and the Economic Policy Institute found that as of 2021, CEOs were paid about 400 times more than the typical worker.
Yahoo Finance
April 5, 2024
“While there’s strong evidence that raising the minimum wage helps lift workers and their families out of poverty, helps to close racial and gender pay gaps, and improves wages for workers beyond just those working at the minimum wage, none of that changes the very real structural issues at the heart of California’s housing crisis,” Kyle Moore, an economist with the Economic Policy Institute, told MarketWatch.
MarketWatch
April 5, 2024
At the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, Josh Bivens took a look at economic performance back to 1949. What did he find?
“There is a pronounced Democratic advantage in nearly every measure of macroeconomic performance. Positive indicators like growth in gross domestic product, income, jobs, and wages are faster, while negative indicators like unemployment, inflation, and interest rates are lower.”
Daily Kos
April 5, 2024
More than 45,000 people are eligible for unemployment insurance but don’t apply for it, largely because they don’t know they’re eligible, the report says. Low-wage workers are less likely to know they qualify for benefits than higher-wage workers, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
New Jersey Monitor
April 5, 2024