Union interest among younger workers is growing, says the Economic Policy Institute. Workers under 45 joined unions at the highest rate in 2023.
Voice of America
March 14, 2024
Having previously worked in a warehouse in a small town in Wisconsin that was also unionizing, Benedict believes that this is a movement from working class people across generations. A report from the think tank the Economic Policy Institute found that major strike activity skytocked by 280% last year.
Fortune
March 14, 2024
Up until the 1970s, women of color could be openly discriminated against in the hiring process and were often relegated to providing domestic service work to white families, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Business Insider
March 14, 2024
According to a study by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), the average yearly earnings of those in the top 10% of Americans were roughly $173,000 in 2020, the most recent data available.
MoneyWise
March 14, 2024
A June 2022 report by the Economic Policy Institute found that nearly a third of gig workers reported earnings less than the minimum wage in their respective states.
Fox Business
March 14, 2024
According to the Economic Policy Institute, there are about 2.4 million farmworkers across the U.S., and while the Fair Food Program has helped countless farmworkers to date, there are far more who don’t yet have the same protections.
Fast Company
March 14, 2024
Moreover, according to the Economic Policy Institute, the share of prime-age (ages 25-54) employment-to-population ratio (EPOP) for U.S.-born individuals was 81.4 percent in 2023, up from 80.7 percent in 2019 — for its highest rate since 2001. Indeed, native-born workers have gained more than 6 million jobs during Biden’s presidency — as have foreign-born workers.
Washington Post
March 14, 2024
And not only that: an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute found that the gender pay gap even widens with education levels, ranging from 20 percent for workers without a high school diploma to 30 percent for those with an advanced degree.
Statista
March 14, 2024
Richard Rothstein, a distinguished fellow at the Economic Policy Institute, wrote in his 2017 book “The Color of Law” that the federal interstate highway system was a prime example of a transportation project used to segregate or destroy Black neighborhoods in the 1940s.
Courthouse News Service
March 14, 2024