“The only way to address school segregation for the many children … who live in highly concentrated ghettos and large metropolitan areas in this country is by residential desegregation,” said Richard Rothstein from the liberal Economic Policy Institute. Rothstein researched why residential areas are so highly segregated, and found that government policy is mostly to blame. “The segregation of our major metropolitan areas in this country today was created by explicit, racially-conscious, public policy on the part of the federal, state, and local governments.”
Washington Examiner
January 12, 2024
Florida is at least the 16th state to introduce roll back child labor protections in the past two years, and the 13th state to introduce such legislation in 2023, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Florida Phoenix
January 12, 2024
The average annual cost for infant care in Georgia is $8,530, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank.
It’s $7,306 a year for a 4-year-old, according to the institute.
WRDW-TV
January 12, 2024
And while there appears to be no chance of either happening with Republicans in the majority in the House, the Economic Policy Institute reports that 22 US states and 38 cities and counties raised their minimum wages this month. The highest state minimum wage is now Washington’s $16.28, and the highest local one is $20.29 (albeit for large employers only) in the Seattle suburb of Tukwila.
Bloomberg
January 12, 2024
The traditional set-up of manager-employee relations often assumes that a worker-manager relationship is inherently antagonistic. But negotiating a bargaining agreement does not have to be confrontational and can earn wins that work for both sides and make the workplace better.
“There will be some growing pains as things get established, but if you really embrace the mechanisms for transparency and communication and openness, it actually ends up being a real productivity and efficiency enhancer and really pays off over the long haul for the organization,” said Heidi Shierholz, president of EPI.
Prism Reports
January 12, 2024
Wage compression can happen when federal or state minimum wages increase. And 30 states and Washington, D.C., have increased their minimum wage since 2014, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
The Hill
January 12, 2024
Uber, Lyft and DoorDash aren’t sweating it. All said Tuesday they won’t change their operations based on the new standard.
“It only will come into play if a worker is claiming a violation,” said Sam Sanders with the Economic Policy Institute. She said we can probably aIso expect lawsuits from those big tech companies.
But it’s not just the so-called gig economy that’s subject to these rules.
“It’s, you know, construction workers, nail salon workers, janitors, lots of other people who are vulnerable to being misclassified,” Sanders said.
And who now stand a better chance of getting the pay and protections other workers get.
Marketplace
January 12, 2024
Alaska was one of several states where such bills were introduced last year, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Anchorage Daily News
January 12, 2024
According to the NELP analysis, more than 21 million Americans work in industries plagued by misclassification: construction, trucking, delivery, home care, personal care, agricultural, and janitorial and building service occupations. When misclassified, these workers lose as much as $18,000 per year in income and job benefits, according to a report from the Economic Policy Institute.
Quartz
January 12, 2024
The Economic Policy Institute reports that nationwide the number of employed school bus drivers has dropped below pre-pandemic levels, with roughly 15 percent fewer driving in K to 12 schools in September 2023 than in September 2019.
Fast Company
January 12, 2024