The Economic Policy Institute reports that 18% of union certification elections involve a charge of employers failing to bargain in good faith. But bargaining in good faith is the only obligation employers and employees have under the National Labor Relations Act, the federal law that oversees union organizing.
“There’s nothing to deter employers from violating the law,” said Margaret Poydock, a senior policy analyst with the Economic Policy Institute. “There are no financial penalties.”
Wichita Beacon
March 8, 2024
Friday’s jobs data offers “a tale of two surveys,” said Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute.
Employment fell in the household survey, but the payroll survey showed strong growth, she explained in a post on X Friday morning.
“Payroll survey is the gold standard (larger sample/benchmarked), but the increase in unemployment in the household survey is something to watch,” she wrote.
However, since nominal wage growth continues to ease, she said: “Fed take note: this is not an overheating labor market.”
CNN Business
March 8, 2024
Hawaii isn’t alone in its struggles. Nationally, the number of school bus drivers has dropped 15% since 2019, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Honolulu Civil Beat
March 8, 2024
Valerie Wilson, director at the Economic Policy Institute’s program on race, ethnicity and the economy, said that the labor market is showing positive signs for Black women. She pointed to the decrease in unemployment rate, while the employment-population ratio edged higher to 60.6% from 59.9%.
“That seems unambiguously that things are moving in a positive direction,” she told CNBC.
As for why the cohort was able buck the trend, Wilson said that it could be due to the specific industries that added jobs last month.
“We saw increases in healthcare and government services, which are sectors where we see a significant number of black women being employed,” she said. “The fact that those were two sectors that added jobs and had the highest job growth in the last month is probably a factor in that increased participation rate and reduced unemployment rate.”
CNBC
March 8, 2024
The Economic Policy Institute looked at research from the past two decades and found that as the years went by, the rate of unresolved contracts after the first year grew from 44% in a 2008 study to 63% in a 2018 study.
Colorado Sun
March 8, 2024
The White House pointed to a study from the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank, showing that CEO pay averaged more than 300 times that of the typical worker in 2022.
The Washington Post
March 8, 2024
Child care costs are out of reach for too many Kansas families. According to the Economic Policy Institute, the average annual cost of infant care in Kansas is $11,222 per child, which represents 18.1% of the median family income in Kansas.
Kansas Reflector
March 8, 2024
The Economic Policy Institute said in 2014 that wage theft costs American workers as much as $50 billion a year.
LA Times
March 8, 2024
For many Americans, the term “middle class” means having a certain amount of economic security, says Elise Gould, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C., think tank. “It could mean having savings for a rainy day or saving for your children’s education,” she says. “That is very different from being in the middle of the wage distribution, which is how the middle class is technically defined.”
Fast Company
March 8, 2024
Child labor violations in Florida and across the country have risen in recent years, as have the number of industry-backed bills filed in state legislatures aiming to loosen child labor protections in states across the country.
Orlando Weekly
March 8, 2024