While the number of workers represented by a union has increased (by 191,000 from 2022 to 2023), the share of workers represented by a union has decreased slightly, from 11.3% to 11.2%, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
MLK50
March 22, 2024
An analysis by the Economic Policy Institute in 2015 revealed that income inequality caused the average middle-class worker to lose approximately $17,957 in yearly income in 2007.
GistFest
March 22, 2024
ABOUT 50% OF THE LABOR MARKET’S RECENT GROWTH CAME FROM FOREIGN-BORN WORKERS BETWEEN JANUARY 2023 AND JANUARY 2024, ACCORDING TO ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE ANALYSIS OF FEDERAL DATA.
C-SPAN Washington Journal
March 22, 2024
Minnesota teachers make nearly 28% less than other comparable college-educated workers in the state, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank based in Washington, D.C. That gap is about 26% nationally.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
March 22, 2024
Furthermore, studies conducted by the Economic Policy Institute have shown that voucher students performed worse than their peers going to schools in the traditional sense.
TheChattanoogan.com
March 22, 2024
For this article, rental prices were taken from Zillow Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:Z) and Zumper, grocery figures were taken from the Economic Policy Institute,
Insider Monkey
March 22, 2024
Advocates, including the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy and the Economic Policy Institute worried earlier versions of the bill would put kids at risk to hazardous working environments.The legislation was one of two bills lawmakers considered that would have weakened the state’s protections for young workers.
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Nina Mast, state economic analyst for the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank aimed at including the needs of low- and middle-income workers in economic policy discussions, agreed that the final version of the bill was much improved than the original version, but said not all concerns were addressed.
Mast said her main concern with the bill now is that it’s unclear and up to interpretation whether minors can work in hazardous work beyond what is outlined in the federal Fair Labor Standards Act.
“If it is not clear to advocates who have pored over multiple versions of the bill, how can we expect it to be clear to the lawmakers voting in support of it, to the employers expected to follow it, or to state agents charged with enforcing it?” Mast said.
West Virginia Watch
March 22, 2024
State and local governments can play a critical role in protecting teens from workplace injury and death amid a nationwide surge in child labor law violations, a recently published report states.
Citing data from the Department of Labor, the nonprofit think tank Economic Policy Institute and New York University’s Wagner Labor Initiative say child labor violations rose 88% between 2019 and 2023.
Safety and Health Magazine
March 22, 2024
A separate report by the Economic Policy Institute finds that Minnesota teachers make almost 30% less than comparably educated workers in other fields, a figure that’s slightly higher than the national average.
Minnesota Reformer
March 22, 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 22, 2024