Opponents say such laws weaken unions’ ability to secure better wages, benefits and working conditions for workers. According to an analysis by the left-leaning think tank Economic Policy Institute, wages in “right-to-work” states are more than 3% lower than in non-“right-to-work” states, “even after controlling for a full set of worker characteristics and state labor market conditions.”
Construction Dive
February 16, 2024
“I’m not particularly concerned,” says Elise Gould, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C., think tank.
If economists aren’t panicked, it means you probably shouldn’t be either. Unless, of course, you’re in one of the sectors that’s seen an uptick.
NerdWallet
February 16, 2024
The budgets estimate community-specific costs for 10 family types (one or two adults with zero to four children) in all counties and metro areas in the United States. Officials say, compared with the federal poverty line and the Supplemental Poverty Measure, EPI’s family budgets provide a more accurate and complete measure of economic security in America.
WJON (Minnesota)
February 16, 2024
Conversely, they make up just 10.5% of computer and mathematical science occupations, according to the Economic Policy Institute, where the median annual salary is $100,440, and 6.9% of legal occupations, where the median annual salary is $95,170.
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And even if public transportation gets you to that job, you “may be limited in the number of hours of work because [you] can’t use transportation at any time,” says Valerie Wilson, director of the EPI’s Program on Race, Ethnicity and the Economy.
CNBC
February 16, 2024
A report by the Economic Policy Institute found that “14% of surveyed gig workers [in May 2020] earned less than the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.”
Popular Information
February 16, 2024
The decision to repeal its right-to-work laws may have a positive economic effect—at least, that’s what a brief released this week from the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute (EPI) shows.
The report says that states with RTW laws “have lower unionization rates, wages, and benefits compared with non-RTW states,” and that “on average, workers in RTW states are paid 3.2% less than workers with similar characteristics in non-RTW states, which translates to $1,670 less per year for a full-time worker.”
Fast Company
February 16, 2024
States have outlawed hair discrimination through legislation and executive order, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
HR Dive
February 16, 2024
What’s more, unfairness goes well beyond hiring decisions. For decades the received wisdom was that black Americans would pull closer to white Americans if they had similar academic qualifications. But Valerie Wilson of the Economic Policy Institute, a think-tank based in Washington, dc, has shown that wages for black and white college graduates have instead drifted further apart in recent decades. “In addition to pay discrimination, a lot has to do with disparities in the jobs that people go into and in opportunities for promotion,” says Ms Wilson.
The Economist
February 16, 2024
It also took into account the average monthly cost of rent via Zumper and the average cost of groceries via data from the Economic Policy Institute.
Travel and Leisure
February 16, 2024
- The Economic Policy Institute issued a report showing that so-called “right to work” laws which make it harder for workers to unionize are hurting the economic power of workers in red states, resulting in lower wages, smaller pensions, and worse benefit packages. Additionally, the trickle-down claims that eliminating right-to-work laws will create jobs are patently false:
The Pitch from Civic Ventures
February 16, 2024