The bills come amid a national move to strip protections even as child labor violations increase, according to the Economic Policy Institute. In the first nine months of 2023, the Washington Post found that three-quarters of these violations came from the food service industry.
Indiana Capital Chronicle
March 1, 2024
9. IMMIGRATION FILES: “The economy is roaring. Immigration is a key reason,” by WaPo’s Rachel Siegel, Lauren Kaori Gurley and Meryl Kornfield: “About 50 percent of the labor market’s extraordinary recent growth came from foreign-born workers between January 2023 and January 2024, according to an Economic Policy Institute analysis of federal data.”
Politico Playbook
March 1, 2024
As states pass bills that weaken established child labor protections, one unintended consequence could be setting up businesses to break federal law, says Terri Gerstein, the director of NYU Wagner Labor Initiative. “What they’re doing is misleading employers in their state, putting them on a path towards federal violations, in addition to really putting kids at risk,” she says.
On Monday, Gerstein released a report, in conjunction with the Economic Policy Institute, a labor-backed think tank, that encourages states to deter and address child labor violations and strengthen protections for child workers.
Governing Magazine
March 1, 2024
Immigration has boosted the economy with thousands filling jobs otherwise left untouched, according to financial experts cited by The Washington Post.
In 2023, about half of the US job market’s robust growth came from foreign-born workers, according to an Economic Policy Institute analysis of federal data cited by the Post on Tuesday.
Daily Mail
March 1, 2024
“This agreement…is a very, very big deal,” said Dave Kamper, Senior Strategist at the progressive think tank Economic Policy Institute. “Starbucks Workers United has shown that determined workers, willing to use all the tools of worker power at their disposal…can bring companies to the bargaining table.”
In These Times
March 1, 2024
Because unions raise wages not only for their own members but for non-members as well (as non-union firms are forced to compete with unionized ones for workers), this absolute loss in worker power has been magnified across the entire economy. The Economic Policy Institute estimated that if union density had remained at 1979 levels, the average non-union worker in the mid-2010s would have been earning $2,700 per year more.
defector
March 1, 2024
The Economic Policy Institute reported that the number of K-12 bus drivers at the…[paywall].
Richmond Times-Dispatch
March 1, 2024
The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) has released a study that finds the merger would reduce employment options for workers and put downward pressure on their wages. They say 776,000 workers would see an overall loss of $334 million in earnings. That averages out to $450 in annual wages lost per worker.
My Bellingham Now
March 1, 2024
The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) said Florida’s bills are part of a nationwide effort to weaken child labor laws. Florida was the 16th state to introduce bills in the past two years, according to the EPI, a nonpartisan think tank.
Florida Politics
March 1, 2024
It also had larger costs for American democracy, according to a 2012 study from the Economic Policy Institute.
Researchers found that the decline of unions during the latter half of the 20th century had accompanied a rise in economic inequality to levels not seen since before the New Deal.
The Hill
March 1, 2024