In 2023, women earned, on average, 21.8% less than men, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Word in Black
March 14, 2024
“Nominal wage growth continues to moderate,” Elise Gould, economist with the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning Washington think tank, wrote in an analysis.
“Private-sector wage growth rose by a modest 1.8 percent over the month, annualized. The three-month change came in at 4.0 percent, annualized, consistent with inflation and productivity growth. Fed take note: this is not an overheating labor market.”
The Hill
March 14, 2024
Ninety-two percent of Dollar General workers make less than $15 an hour, according to a wage tracker from the Economic Policy Institute. That’s compared to 80% at Big Lots, 51% at Walmart and 3% at Target making under $15.
13 News Now
March 14, 2024
Some economists have pointed out that these high profits during the economic recovery are nothing like the profits businesses have made in past economic cycles. Chief economist at the Economic Policy Institute, Josh Bivens, explained in 2022 that, “Evidence from the past 40 years suggests strongly that profit margins should shrink…”
States Newsroom
March 14, 2024
Currently, just seven states have laws that restrict or prohibit public sector collective bargaining, said Jennifer Sherer, director of the State Worker Power Initiative at the Economic Policy Institute. The last several years have seen a number of efforts in conservative states to roll back public employees’ ability to organize or bargain.
“Over the past decade, we have seen repeated politically motivated attacks on public sector employees in states where Republicans have majorities in the legislature,” she said. “This introduces all kinds of unfairness and unevenness into our labor markets and into our economy.”
Verite News
March 14, 2024
According to an Economic Policy Institute analysis of federal data, about 50% of the labor market’s recent growth came from foreign-born workers between January 2023 and January 2024.
Scripps news
March 14, 2024
The Economic Policy Institute found that significantly fewer restrictive voting laws have been passed in the 17 highest-union-density states than in the rest of the country. (Consider that 70 percent of low-union-density states passed at least one voter suppression law between 2011 and 2019.)
Nonprofit Quarterly
March 14, 2024
Lawmakers also heard from a panel that included advocates from the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice, the president of One Fair Wage, and a policy expert from the Economic Policy Institute. They told lawmakers that these sub-minimum wage policies leave women, particularly women of color, at risk of sexual harassment.
Boston.com
March 14, 2024
Technology is great for union organizing. Social media, text messages, and videoconferencing allow workers to connect even when they are separated by location or shift, or when employers have prohibited them from discussing unions at work. But technology is also used for union busting. Anti-union employers monitor social media and messaging platforms to see who is talking about unions, and blast-text their employees to pressure them to reject unionization. On net, these forces probably roughly cancel out, meaning that technology will neither breathe new life into labor, nor hinder it.
Project Syndicate
March 14, 2024
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Pitchfork Economics
March 14, 2024