But while a 65-year-old is more likely to apply for a desk job or remote work than something that requires heavy lifting, said Monique Morrissey, a senior economist specializing in retirement security at the Economic Policy Institute, about 50% of older workers still have physically demanding jobs.
For many people, though, working into their golden years simply comes down to lacking enough money to stop working and keep a roof over their heads.
“It’s a tale of two retirements,” Morrissey said. While plenty of older Americans are working good jobs later into life by choice, others have struggled to find their place in the workforce.
CNN
April 19, 2024
(That said, a new paper from left-leaning think tank Economic Policy Institute says economic performance tends to be stronger when Democrats are in power.).
Fortune
April 19, 2024
Across the US, there are 33 states where childcare is more expensive than college, the Economic Policy Institute found. In some areas, infant care can set you back tens of thousands of dollars more than a college education.
Yahoo Finance
April 19, 2024
Cites EPI data on unemployment by race.
Crain's Cleveland Business
April 19, 2024
An estimated 36 million to 60 million Americans work under a non-compete, according to 2019 data from the Economic Policy Institute.
The CT Mirror
April 19, 2024
David Brancaccio: That 2-to-1 ratio. That is typically what we’ve seen over the years?
Valerie Wilson: Yes. In fact, the stability of that relationship between Black and white unemployment is actually documented for almost seven decades in national statistics. That disparity holds up across periods of economic expansion and recession. We see it for all age cohorts, for men and women at nearly every level of education. So, it is a pretty persistent racial disparity and unemployment.
Marketplace Morning Report
April 19, 2024
While employers were ready to pay higher wages to get workers after the pandemic, an influx of foreign-born workers filled the jobs and reduced the shortage. Some 2.7 million foreign born workers, ages 25-54, entered the workforce over the past four years, according to analysis of government data by the Economic Policy Institute. That’s 96% of the prime age workers added over the same period.
Mankato Free Press
April 17, 2024
Trump’s NLRB members also allowed for the misclassification of workers, which threatened their ability to join a union in the first place.
Misclassification of employees as independent contractors is a rampant problem that, according to the Economic Policy Institute, “robs employees of their rights under the NLRA,” or the National Labor Relations Act, as independent contractors are not covered or protected by the legislation. Congress passed the bill in 1935 and it guaranteed the right of private sector employees to organize into unions, collectively bargain, and go on strike.
Courier Newsroom
April 17, 2024
Since 2009, the number of school bus drivers nationwide has steadily decreased, with roughly 192,000 employed, according to a 2023 study by the Economic Policy Institute.
KSBY-TV
April 17, 2024