The raise will affect 48,800 Rhode Island workers — 10.2 percent of the workforce, according to an Economic Policy Institute report released last week. On average, the increase represents a $703 bump in annual earnings.
Patch Rhode Island
January 5, 2024
Roughly two dozen states are seeing minimum wage rises in the New Year, according to a recent report by the Economic Policy Institute.
Denver Gazette
January 5, 2024
The Center for Popular Democracy, an assemblage of community groups and the Economic Policy Institute projected in 2019 that 80% of private sector, nonunion workers would be subject to mandatory arbitration by 2024.
American Prospect
January 5, 2024
About 44% of employers statewide subject some workers to noncompete agreements, and about 23% subject all workers to the agreements, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit.
New York Daily News
January 5, 2024
Almost 10 million people in 22 states across the country will see a minimum wage pay increase in 2024, according to the Economic Policy Institute. The Institute estimates that workers will receive $6.95 billion in additional wages from these increases.
NewsNation
January 5, 2024
“When the labor market is tight, union activity is less risky because you’re more likely to be able to find another job in a reasonable time if an employer retaliates against you,” said Heidi Shierholz, former Labor Department economist and president of the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington-based think tank.
The Washington Post
January 5, 2024
Since 2021, at least 10 states have introduced or passed laws rolling back protections for children, the Economic Policy Institute noted in a recent report. The legislative push is “part of a coordinated campaign backed by industry groups intent on eventually diluting federal standards that cover the whole industry,” according to the left-leaning think tank.
CBS Moneywatch
January 5, 2024
While more work needs to be done — and is being done — to support the continued transition to EVs, the Economic Policy Institute estimates that more than 150,000 jobs could be created in the auto sector in 2030 because of the vehicles if a number of factors fall into place.
Yahoo
January 5, 2024
Twenty U.S. states still use the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) says.
KTVB (Boise)
January 5, 2024
Unionization has been booming in recent years and today some 16 million employees in the United States are union members, according to data collected by the Economic Policy institute. In 2022, union ranks increased by almost a quarter million, the institute says.
Legal Dive
January 5, 2024