However, a study from the pro-union Economic Policy Institute found that employers were charged with violating federal law, by using intimidation or threats, in 41.5% of cases between 2016 and 2017 when a company required a secret election. For organizing campaigns with more than 60 employees, that rate jumped to 54.4% of companies.
Atlanta Journal Constitution
March 1, 2024
Cites EPI data on “Big Three” profits and declining real pay for auto workers before the strike.
“From Hollywood actors and writers, to hotel and hospital workers, even neighborhood baristas, last year’s labor protests were like a dam bursting. From 2021 to 2023 the Big Three automakers made more than $100 billion in profits (according to the Economic Policy Institute), while average auto worker pay has fallen nearly twenty percent from pre-recession levels.”
CBS Sunday Morning
March 1, 2024
Monique Morrissey, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, says that not being financially secure is likely the bigger factor in why we’re seeing more older people work for longer. In 2022, according to the Survey of Consumer Finances, almost 43 percent of people between 55 and 64 didn’t have a retirement savings account. In just the past few years, there has been a spate of viral headlines about older Americans continuing to work difficult jobs out of necessity — like an 82-year-old man working as a Walmart cashier until a GoFundMe raised $100,000, or the 89-year-old man who delivered pizza to pay his bills until he, too, received $20,000 thanks to a fundraising campaign.
“It is really very much a tale of two types of older workers,” says Morrissey. “Half have it good and half have it bad.”
VOX
March 1, 2024
The Economic Policy Institute says the average Minnesota family with an infant and a 4-year-old is spending more than 37% of their income on child care. Some lawmakers are hoping state scholarships are a solution.
FOX 9 KMSP
March 1, 2024
As the Economic Policy Institute notes, “enforcement of this requirement is fraught with problems, and evidence suggests that tipped workers are subject to high rates of wage theft” across the country.
Current Affairs
March 1, 2024
She said according to the Economic Policy Institute, Oklahoma has a 32% gap between what teachers and other professionals with a bachelor’s degree are paid.
Stillwater News Press
March 1, 2024
Living Wage for US was launched in November 2021 to create a “internationally comparable and locally specific” living wage certification program.
Based on data from the Economic Policy Institute, Living Wage for US considers the cost of housing, food, transportation, health insurance, out-of-pocket health care costs and retirement to come up with its living wage rate. Certain benefits, such as health care, retirement or child care, are considered when tailoring a specific rate for each employer seeking certification.
Mountain Xpress
March 1, 2024
Features interview with Nina Mast on child labor.
Free Speech TV
March 1, 2024