(According to a recent report from the Economic Policy Institute, 61% of the lowest-wage workers do not have access to paid sick days.)
Time Magazine
February 2, 2024
Meanwhile, a typical Black employee is paid about 23% less per hour than a typical white worker, and a typical white family has eight times as much wealth as their Black counterparts, according to an August report from the Economic Policy Institute.
USA Today
February 2, 2024
With the federal wage remaining so pitifully low and decades out of date (according to the Economic Policy Institute, its relative value is at a 66-year nadir), it’s no coincidence that, as the API’s proposal notes, “Many of these job openings are in the retail and food services industries” — i.e. jobs that pay minimum wage or potentially less, in the case of waitstaff.
Truthout
February 2, 2024
West Virginia AFL-CIO president Josh Sword says that the law has had a negative effect on local unions and will hurt workers’ long-term ability to organize and advocate for better benefits; research from left-leaning groups like the Economic Policy Institute have found that employee wages are lower in states with “right-to-work” laws.
Mountain State Spotlight
February 2, 2024
“We’re getting a lot of stories about a specific chunk” of the labor market, said Heidi Shierholz, president of the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, DC. By and large, blue-collar jobs have been in good shape — it’s the white-collar, professional services jobs in areas such as finance and technology that have been struggling. “But that level of layoffs is actually a normal part of our labor market,” she said.
Shierholz also explained that layoffs and unemployment insurance claims have been lower than they were before the pandemic.
Bloomberg
February 2, 2024
When Bernal was hired for the curatorial position in August 2022, her hourly wage equaled just a bit more than $46,000 before taxes, barely squeaking past the Economic Policy Institute’s estimated livable wage for metro Denver at $45,554. “It’s kind of this open secret that people leave not because they don’t like their work, but because they simply are not paid enough to continue doing it,” she said.
Colorado Sun
February 2, 2024
“The H-1B program has many flaws that have become especially evident in
light of recent mass layo!s in the tech sector,” wrote researchers from the
Economic Policy Institute, a pro-labor think tank. “Instead of being used to fill
genuine labor shortages in skilled occupations without negatively impacting
U.S. workers’ wages and working conditions, the latest data show that the H-1B’s biggest users are companies that have laid off tens of thousands of
workers in 2022 and the first quarter of 2023.
News & Observer
February 2, 2024
The teacher shortage isn’t just a Nevada problem, it is nationwide. Even Vermont is still looking for teachers. The Economic Policy Institute projects it will only get worse. They project the US will be roughly 200,000 public school teachers short by the 2025-26 school year.
Fox 5 Las Vegas
February 2, 2024
Last year, more than 60 million employees who wanted to join a union were unable to do so, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Fortune
February 2, 2024
“As an economist, I totally approve of the Biden admin’s decision to not tout stock market gains as evidence of their general approach to policymaking. As everybody says — and they’re right about this — the stock market isn’t the economy,” said Josh Bivens, research director at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank.
The Hill
February 2, 2024