As of 2022, teachers earn 26.4% less than other college-educated workers, the lowest in six decades, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Stacker
March 26, 2024
These uses of state power to try to suppress Southern workers’ wages by blocking the path to a union contract are nothing new.
Southern Republicans have for decades claimed that “business-friendly” policies—including laws that constrain workers’ rights—would lead to an abundance of jobs and prosperity. The data show a grim reality.
Newsweek
March 26, 2024
On Tuesday, a virtual workshop will be held to offer basic information regarding unions for working class folks and others interested in learning about the topic especially in Alabama.
The workshop is sponsored by the North Alabama Labor Council and the presentation will be conducted by Jennifer Sherer of the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). Sherer is a senior state policy coordinator for EPI’s Economic Analysis and Research Network (EARN) Worker Power Project.
Alabama Reporter
March 26, 2024
It’s up to each state representative to set their employees’ salaries with a $75,000 cap, according to McCann, Tate’s spokesperson. Representatives must pay their staff at least $35,000. That floor means representatives can pay their staff about $7,000 less than a living wage in the Lansing/East Lansing metro area, according to calculations from the Economic Policy Institute, a research organization focused on low- and middle-income workers.
Detroit Free Press
March 25, 2024
Education majors tend to be paid less as well. While teachers have good job security, summers off and pensions, they’re usually paid by state governments, which have lagged in keeping wages commensurate with inflation. In recent years, the “teacher pay penalty” has gotten worse, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
CNBC
March 25, 2024
The Economic Policy Institute says the average annual income of the top 1% is $1,316,985, but most people would probably feel like they were on Easy Street with a whole lot less.
GO Banking Rates
March 25, 2024
Heidi Shierholz, President of the Economic Policy Institute, joins the podcast to discuss the ongoing skewing of the income distribution. There’s a lengthy list of reasons why more of the economic pie is going to those in the top of the distribution, from less unionization and lax enforcement of labor laws, but you would be surprised to hear what’s not on the list. You may also be surprised that the conversation ends on an upbeat note.
Inside Economics podcast
March 25, 2024
It’s been four years since the Covid-19 pandemic led to business shutdowns across the country and a subsequent record 3.28 million unemployment filings. Valerie Wilson, director of the Economic Policy Institute on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy, gives us her take on the state of the labor market.
Wall Street Journal Take On The Week Podcast
March 25, 2024
Not all companies have responded to union drives with such hostility. Ben & Jerry’s and Microsoft have “tried to start a positive labor-management relationship,” the Economic Policy Institute reported on March 7, in an article arguing that the legal battle to ditch the NLRB relies on “long-rejected constitutional arguments about the agency’s structure.” EPI notes that none of the workers at Starbucks, Amazon or Trader Joe’s have a collective bargaining agreement yet, because these companies “have stalled the bargaining process.”
Counterpunch
March 22, 2024
The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) noted in its analysis of the BLS figures that the share of nonunion workers who would like to have a union at their workplace is far higher than the share who actually have union representation,” a testament to the effectiveness of corporate union-busting campaigns and the need for much stronger federal labor laws.
Common Dreams
March 22, 2024