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 19, 2024
“Never in recent history has this dynamic been more clear,” researchers at the Economic Policy Institute noted in 2020 in a report on how unions benefit all workers during public health crises. Never has it been more important that all workers have a voice in the workplace and access to a union. Workers’ lives and the health and safety of working families depends on their ability to have a say in how they do their jobs.”
Next City
March 19, 2024
Minnesota’s minimum wage was just adjusted for inflation on Jan. 1 to $10.85 an hour for large employers and $8.85 an hour for other state minimum wages.
According to the Economic Policy Institute, women and people of color are benefitting the most from the change, but some lawmakers believe the pay bump still isn’t enough.
CBS Minnesota
March 19, 2024
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 19, 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 19, 2024
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 19, 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 19, 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 18, 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 18, 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 18, 2024