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• How Immigrants Are Boosting U.S. Economic And Job Growth

  In 2023, “foreign-born” workers comprised nearly 19% of the U.S. labor force, according to analysis by nonpartisan think tank Economic Policy Institute of Current Population Survey data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is an uptick from 15.3% in 2006.

  Forbes March 22, 2024
• Here’s how much Coca-Cola’s top execs took home last year

  paid 344 times as much as a typical worker, according to the Economic Policy Institute. U.S. securities regulations now require that…[paywall].

  Atlanta Journal Constitution March 22, 2024
• Pennsylvania Republican Profited From China Trade Policies He Helped Shape

  Robert Scott, a former senior economist at the pro-labor Economic Policy Institute, had a similar assessment — and highlighted another way in which McCormick’s goals would provide political scaffolding for the larger offshoring regime.

  “You get domestic banks, domestic investors saying they have an interest in China trade,” he said. “They get their lobbyists involved, and so that helps reduce pressure on the administration because it shows they are getting something out of the deal.”

  Huffpost March 22, 2024
• Covid Isn’t Going Anywhere. Workers’ Rights and Accommodations Are.

  “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 22, 2024
• Minnesota Legislature considers bill to increase state’s minimum wage

  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 22, 2024
• Smaller groups form coalitions to push back on state power

  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
• Chrysler CEO Bob Nardeli Warns of Shift in the Labor Market

  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
• Jennie Murray on Immigration and Border Security

  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
• How well are Minnesota’s teachers paid?

  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
• School Choice Vouchers Are A Mistake

  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