This trend is happening as some states are taking steps to loosen child labor protections. Iowa and West Virginia have recently changed laws to allow teens as young as 16 to serve alcohol, according to a report by the Economic Policy Institute. Others are rapidly rolling back protections for 14- and 15-year-old workers.
The Washington Post
January 26, 2024
The Economic Policy Institute calculates that a family of four in the Dallas metro area needs to bring home more than $82,000 per year to cover all of their basic costs.
Dallas Observer
January 26, 2024
The Economic Policy Institute’s annual study says a fair wage is that which provides “teachers with compensation commensurate with that of other similarly educated and experienced professionals.”
Santa Barbara Indepedant
January 26, 2024
According to the Economic Policy Institute, that means child care is only affordable for the highest-paid 12.2% of Ohio households.
Crain's Cleveland Business
January 26, 2024
The high number of job losses for full employees indicated by the study also calls into question the validity of the findings, said Heidi Shierholz, president of the Economic Policy Institute.
“The story that AB5 would cause job loss would be something like, some folks move from self employment to employee-based employment,” she said. “That would make traditional employment go up, or at least not fall. There’s just really no story where traditional employment would fall” as a result of that shift, she said.
Bloomberg Law
January 26, 2024
The rule is intended to protect vulnerable workers, DOL said at the time of the rule’s announcement. Groups including the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank, previously estimated that a switch from employee status to independent contractor status may cost workers thousands of dollars in potential earnings.
HR Dive
January 26, 2024
Colorado’s not alone in facing a time crunch. As of June 2023, states had only spent about half the money the federal government provided, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C., think tank.
Colorado Sun
January 26, 2024
Some experts are attributing the new labor laws to a crackdown on undocumented workers. “These issues are very closely intertwined,” Jennifer Sherer, director of the Economic Analysis and Research Network at the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute, told theTampa Bay Times. She added that Florida’s anti-immigrations laws are “jeopardizing the workforce.”
Forbes
January 26, 2024
Labor advocates around the state and country have been critical about the emergence of bills introduced this session in Tallahassee that roll back child labor laws.
Sixteen other states have passed similar laws around the U.S. over the past year, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Florida Phoenix
January 26, 2024
Along with the passage of laws unfavorable toward labor unions, some corporations invest money into programs and consultants who engage in union-suppressing tactics, according to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). A 2019 analysis from the EPI found that companies spent $340 million a year on “union avoiding” consultants who help deter organizers. And employers were charged with violating federal law in 41.5% of all union election campaigns.
USA Today
January 24, 2024