An increase in minimum wage in 22 states, effective Jan. 1, raised pay for nearly 10 million workers, according to an analysis from the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
The wage boosts will disproportionately affect Black and Hispanic workers, who make up a greater share of workers receiving raises than of the workforce overall, according to EPI.
Politico Morning Shift
January 5, 2024
Additionally, a study by the Economic Policy Institute found increasing minimum wage creates a more equitable economy – disproportionately helping women, Black, and Hispanic workers, as well as working families.
WJLA
January 5, 2024
The average annual cost of infant care in Pennsylvania is $11,842 or $987 per month. Child care for a 4-year-old costs $9,773, or $814 each month, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
January 5, 2024
In September, Emily Zhang observed in a blog post for the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute that to stabilize at current levels, the U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio would require either raising taxes or lowering spending by 2.2 percent and that “this is eminently doable through tax increases alone.” Recall that as a proportion of GDP, taxes in the U.S. rose 2.7 percentage points between 2018 and 2022 without anybody much noticing.
New Republic
January 5, 2024
In fact, according to a recent study by the Economic Policy Institute, come the first of the year, Maryland will join 21 other states in boosting their minimum wages, increasing pay for nearly 10 million workers nationwide.
WJLA
January 5, 2024
The Economic Policy Institute’s economists Elise Gould and Josh Bivens estimate wage inequality deprived the system of $1.4 trillion (almost the size of the current Social Security deficit.
Forbes
January 5, 2024
According to the Economic Policy Institute, employers spend $433 million per year on union-avoidance consultants—outside specialists who are brought in and paid hundreds of dollars per hour to convince workers not to unionize.
Fast Company
January 5, 2024
Of the 10 states that passed rollbacks of child labor protections in 2021-2023 as tracked by the union-affiliated Economic Policy Institute, seven were Republican-controlled.
LA Times
January 5, 2024
A 2009 Economic Policy Institute study found that 52% of newly unionized workplaces didn’t have a new contract one year after winning an election, and 37% were without a contract two years after a successful vote.
Bloomberg Law
January 5, 2024
Celine McNicholas, the policy director at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, noted that the administration even tried to start charging federal unions for the use of office space in federal buildings, a move she described as “truly petty.”
“That, to me, revealed what a Trump administration is like more than anything else,” McNicholas said. “Never missing an opportunity to take away from workers the ability to organize.”
Huffpost
January 5, 2024